I am trying to change the default `TextColor` in a Xamarin.Forms ListView on Andoid.

The ListView is quite simple:

```
List<string> cities = new List<string> { "Berlin", "Bonn", "Braunschweig", "Bremen" };
ListView listView = new ListView();
listView.ItemsSource = cities;
Content = listView;

```

On the device it looks like this:

[![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/FlxdL.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/FlxdL.png)

What I wnat to have, is that the `TextColor` will be black.
As far as I understand [Xamarin Forms CustomRenderer](https://github.com/xamarin/Xamarin.Forms/blob/master/Xamarin.Forms.ControlGallery.Android/CustomRenderers.cs) there will be a `Android.Resource.Layout.SimpleListItem1` generated for each item.

[SimpleListItem1](https://github.com/android/platform_frameworks_base/blob/master/core/res/res/layout/simple_list_item_1.xml) uses the following textAppearance:

```
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceListItemSmall"

```

`textAppearanceListItemSmall` uses the Attribute `textAppearanceMedium` for rendering, as you can see [here](http://grepcode.com/file/repository.grepcode.com/java/ext/com.google.android/android/4.4_r1/frameworks/base/core/res/res/values/themes.xml).

So I have added the colors and the theme to the resouces:

```
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<resources>
  <color name="Black">#000000</color>
</resources>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<resources>
  <style name="MyTheme" parent="android:Theme.Holo.Light">
    <item name="android:textAppearanceMedium">@style/MyDefaultTextAppearanceM</item>
  </style>

  <style name="MyDefaultTextAppearanceM" parent="@android:style/TextAppearance.Medium">
    <item name="android:textColor">@color/Black</item>
  </style>
</resources>

```

I have also added the Theme to the Attribute for my Activity (`Theme = "@style/MyTheme`)
The Theme is basically working. With `<item name="android:colorActivatedHighlight">@color/Blue4</item>` I can change the HighlightColor.

So how can I get the text color in ListView black? What I am doing wrong?