> http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/notifiers/notifications....

> which states:

> "[...]to use the standard text colors on versions of Android lower than
> 2.3, you should use the following styles for res/values/styles.xml:"

> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <resources>
>      <style name="NotificationText">
>        <item name="android:textColor">?android:attr/textColorPrimary</item>
>      </style>
>      <style name="NotificationTitle">
>        <item name="android:textColor">?android:attr/textColorPrimary</item>
>        <item name="android:textStyle">bold</item>
>      </style>
>      <!-- If you want a slightly different color for some text,
>           consider using ?android:attr/textColorSecondary -->
> </resources>

> Which produce a White color on a light gray background on the Android
> 2.1 and Android 2.2 emulator... It's obviously very hard to read...

> Should I ignore this guide lines?

> anyone sharing experiences about this?

> ps: The secondary color is fine, but I need the primary too...

> I ended up using the guidelines for Android 2.3 and greater and set up
> my custom colors for Android 2.2 and lower..

> This is not the first time I found the Android documentation lacking or
> wrong.

> But the thing that most annoy me is the fact that lot of bugs are
> completely ignored by Google even if lot of people vote for them.
> But that's OT in this thread.

> On 12/08/2011 09:49 AM, Daniele Segato wrote:
> > On 12/06/2011 01:41 PM, kilaka wrote:
> >> Does NOT work for me as well. The text is white and looks bad on a
> >> bright background.

> > I ended up using the guidelines for Android 2.3 and greater and set up
> > my custom colors for Android 2.2 and lower..

> > This is not the first time I found the Android documentation lacking or
> > wrong.

> > But the thing that most annoy me is the fact that lot of bugs are
> > completely ignored by Google even if lot of people vote for them.
> > But that's OT in this thread.

> I opened a bug, if anyone interested to follow, hopefully google will
> give us feedback:
> http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=22692