How to set the text color of TextView in code?

You should use:

holder.text.setTextColor(Color.RED);

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You can use various functions from the Color class to get the same effect of course.

• Color.parseColor (Manual) (like LEX uses)text.setTextColor(Color.parseColor("#FFFFFF"));
• Color.rgb and Color.argb (Manual rgb) (Manual argb) (like Ganapathy uses)holder.text.setTextColor(Color.rgb(200,0,0)); holder.text.setTextColor(Color.argb(0,200,0,0));
• And of course, if you want to define your color in an XML file, you can do this:<color name="errorColor">#f00</color> because the getColor() function is deprecated¹, you need to use it like so:ContextCompat.getColor(context, R.color.your_color);
• You can also insert plain HEX, like so:myTextView.setTextColor(0xAARRGGBB); Where you have an alpha-channel first, then the color value.

Check out the complete manual of course, public class Color extends Object.

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¹This code used to be in here as well:

textView.setTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.errorColor));

This method is now deprecated in Android M. You can however use it from the contextCompat in the support library, as the example now shows.