setting textColor in TextView in layout/main.xml main layout file not referencing colors.xml file. (It wants a #RRGGBB instead of @color/text_color)
<p>I'm trying to set some general colors for a program I'm writing. I created a colors.xml file and am trying to directly reference the colors from the layout.xml file. I believe I'm am doing this correctly however it's giving me the following error:</p>

<p>"Color value '@colors/text_color' must start with #"</p>

<p>Here is my res/values/colors.xml</p>

<pre><code>    &lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
    &lt;resources&gt;
        &lt;color name="background_color"&gt;#888888&lt;/color&gt;
        &lt;color name="text_color"&gt;#00FFFF&lt;/color&gt;
    &lt;/resources&gt;

Here is my res/layout/main.xml

&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
&lt;LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent" 
    android:orientation="vertical"&gt;
&lt;TextView  
    android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
    android:text="@string/hello" 
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
    android:id="@+id/TextView01" 
    android:textColor="@colors/text_color"/&gt;
&lt;/LinearLayout&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>I looked at some references on the android developers site:</p>

<p><a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/more-resources.html#Color" rel="nofollow">http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/more-resources.html#Color</a></p>

<p>and found this code:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>example:
      XML file saved at res/values/colors.xml:</p>
</blockquote>

<pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
&lt;resources&gt;
   &lt;color name="opaque_red"&gt;#f00&lt;/color&gt;
   &lt;color name="translucent_red"&gt;#80ff0000&lt;/color&gt;
&lt;/resources&gt;

This application code retrieves the color resource:

Resources res = getResources();
int color = res.getColor(R.color.opaque_red);

This layout XML applies the color to an attribute:

&lt;TextView
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:textColor="@color/translucent_red"
    android:text="Hello"/&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>I think my two xml files follow this example pretty close - however the only difference is that I haven't used any application code to retrieve the color resource. I don't believe this is necessary (but it is a difference.) I thought I'd see if anyone else had similar problems or a solution? or is this a bug?</p>

<p>I did update all my android sdk (and Eclipse plugin) files last week so I believe them to be the latest and greatest.</p>

<p>-J</p>
