How to set default android:textColorLink

Question

I am attempting to set an app-wide style for my TextViews that has a specific color for links. If I set android:textColorLink on each individual TextView, it works fine. However, if I set android:textColorLink inside a style in styles.xml, it continues displaying the normal android:textColor. Has anyone else experienced this or know of a solution? I would prefer to set it as the style so I do not need to update multiple references if the color were to change in the future.

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The following method of individually setting android:textColorLink for each TextView does work and will display color1 for normal text and color2 for links.

styles.xml:

<style name="textStyle" parent="Widget.AppCompat.TextView">
    <item name="android:textColor">@color/color1</item>
</style>

Layout file:

<TextView
    android:textAppearance="@style/textStyle"
    android:textColorLink="@color/color2" />

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If I instead try just updating the style to include android:textColorLink instead of listing it on each TextView, it does not work and will display color1 for all normal text and links.

styles.xml:

<style name="textStyle" parent="Widget.AppCompat.TextView">
    <item name="android:textColor">@color/color1</item>
    <item name="android:textColorLink">@color/color2</item>
</style>

Layout file:

<TextView
    android:textAppearance="@style/textStyle" />

Answer 1

A coworker helped me find the solution to this soon after posting. I had assumed that android:textColorLink would be able to be set through android:textAppearance since I am already setting android:textColor the same way. However, it would appear that android:textColorLink can only be set through style. I am not certain why there is this difference in the ways the colors are applied through styles. If anyone more knowledgeable knows why, please let me know.

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For example, this works.

styles.xml:

<style name="textStyle1" parent="Widget.AppCompat.TextView">
    <item name="android:textColor">@color/color1</item>
</style>
<style name="textStyle2" parent="Widget.AppCompat.TextView">
    <item name="android:textColorLink">@color/color2</item>
</style>

Layout file:

<TextView
    android:textAppearance="@style/textStyle1"
    style="@style/textStyle2" />

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This can also be cleaned up a bit so you only need to set style on the TextViews.

styles.xml:

<style name="textStyle" parent="Widget.AppCompat.TextView">
    <item name="android:textColor">@color/color1</item>
    <item name="android:textColorLink">@color/color2</item>
</style>

Layout file:

<TextView
    style="@style/textStyle" />