Ticker Text Color - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Anyone know how to change the status bar ticker text color?
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Its the text shown at the top of the screen
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Geez... no one?
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jetx2x said:
Geez... no one?
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Did you ever figure it out? I would love to know how to change the default tickertext color

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ZKK007 said:
Did you ever figure it out? I would love to know how to change the default tickertext color
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In framework styles you could do this
Code:
<style name="TextAppearance.StatusBar.Ticker" parent="@style/TextAppearance.StatusBar">
<item name="textColor">#your_text_color_here</item>
</style>
This is an example of where the original style gets its color from
Code:
<style name="TextAppearance.StatusBar.Ticker" parent="@style/TextAppearance.StatusBar" />
No attributes, go to parent
Code:
<style name="TextAppearance.StatusBar" parent="@style/TextAppearance">
<item name="textAppearance">?textAppearanceSmall</item>
</style>
An attribute
?textAppearanceSmall
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Code:
<style name="Theme">
<item name="colorForeground">@color/bright_foreground_dark</item>
<item name="colorBackground">@color/background_dark</item>
<item name="backgroundDimAmount">0.6</item>
<item name="disabledAlpha">0.5</item>
<snip>
<item name="textAppearanceLarge">@style/TextAppearance.Large</item>
<item name="textAppearanceMedium">@style/TextAppearance.Medium</item>
<item name=[COLOR="red"]"textAppearanceSmall">@style/TextAppearance.Small[/COLOR]</item>
Code:
<style name="TextAppearance.Small" parent="@style/TextAppearance">
<item name="textSize">14.0sp</item>
<item name=[COLOR="Red"]"textColor">?textColorSecondary[/COLOR]</item>
</style>
?textColorSecondary
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Code:
<item name="textColorSecondary">@color/secondary_text_dark</item>
secondary_text_dark
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_window_focused="false" android:state_enabled="false" android:color="@color/dim_foreground_dark_disabled" />
<item android:state_window_focused="false" android:color="@color/dim_foreground_dark" />
<item android:state_enabled="false" android:state_selected="true" android:color="@color/dim_foreground_dark_inverse_disabled" />
<item android:state_enabled="false" android:state_pressed="true" android:color="@color/dim_foreground_dark_inverse_disabled" />
<item android:state_selected="true" android:color="@color/dim_foreground_dark_inverse" />
<item android:color="@color/bright_foreground_dark_inverse" android:state_activated="true" />
<item android:state_pressed="true" android:color="@color/dim_foreground_dark_inverse" />
<item android:state_enabled="false" android:color="@color/dim_foreground_dark_disabled" />
<item android:color="[COLOR="Red"]@color/dim_foreground_dark[/COLOR]" />
</selector>
Code:
<color name="dim_foreground_dark">#ffbebebe</color>

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Decompile SystemUI.apk and goto res/layout and open status_bar.xml in Notepad++. Find Ticker in that xml file and under that there is two <TextView then add android:textColor="your text color" to both <TextView.
It should look something like this:
Code:
<com.android.systemui.statusbar.phone.TickerView android:id="@id/tickerText" android:paddingTop="2.0dip" android:paddingRight="10.0dip" android:layout_width="0.0dip" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_weight="1.0">
<TextView android:textAppearance="@style/TextAppearance.StatusBar.PhoneTicker" [COLOR="Red"]android:textColor="your text color"[/COLOR] android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:singleLine="true" />
<TextView android:textAppearance="@style/TextAppearance.StatusBar.PhoneTicker" [COLOR="Red"]android:textColor="your text color"[/COLOR] android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:singleLine="true" />
Then recompile.

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Or you could just download and install xposed framework. Thru xposed download xblast tools which has a ticker editor built in