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Removing highlighted color from ClickableSpan in Android
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Remove Highlighted ClickSpan
I’ve been struggling for some hours with TextView and Spannable.. ClickableSpan to be precise. It seems that when you tap the clickable text it gets an ugly orange stroke (might differ on devices) around the text and if you so happen to have this in a custom view as an item in e.g Gallery it really stands out by highlighting it everytime you scroll away from that view. Annoying, yes?
The solution is extremely simple and was provided by a thread over at Stackoverflow.com.
To edit or remove the higlight color you can simply set the TextViews highlight color itself to any color you want or Color.TRANSPARENT if you don’t want any color.
android:textColorHighlight="@color/something"
or in code
textView.setHighlightColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);
@fawaz-ahmed
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In my case I had to add a bit different color which is transparent whte

android:textColorHighlight="#00FFFFFF"

@gianluca-tesio-MELI
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Gracias por la solución!!

@TedaLIEz
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TedaLIEz commented Mar 4, 2020

Thanks, you save the day!

@kukabi
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kukabi commented Mar 26, 2020

thanks so much!

@ssensalo
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Thanks a lot

@htteng1976
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Thanks, you save my day :)

@yangxiaobinhaoshuai
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Thanks, save my day, bro ! 🍺

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androidcodehunter commented Jul 24, 2020 via email

@hiepxuan2008
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Set android:textColorHighlight="#00FFFFFF" works, set android:textColorHighlight="@android:color/transparent" doesn't work. Thank @fawaz-ahmed

@dramirezm
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android:textColorHighlight="#00FFFFFF" works , thanks

@akshithb19
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Set android:textColorHighlight="#00FFFFFF" works, set android:textColorHighlight="@android:color/transparent" doesn't work. Thank @fawaz-ahmed

Thanks a lot. This works.

@SerendipityMatthew
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you save my life

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