Android Using Color Resource Value in Code

Question

I set the color to my colors.xml resource. This is great for TextViews, etc.

<color name="medsListItem">#980000</color>

I am creating some html / lines in the code and wanted to use the same colors as in my application and keep everything well organized.

I use the code below to get the color from the resource above

String colorToUse = (String) getResources (). getString (R.color.medsListItem);

line created - this is # ff980000 Android adds ff to my line in characters 2 and 3 (or replaces # # # before the line). I can get around this by adding another line to the code

colorToUse = "#" + colorToUse.substring (3, 9);

but I think that I have something missing (a) inelegant and (b) I don’t know why ff is added (guessing that this is due to how android handles the color value)

Answer 1

The returned color is in the format #AARRGGBB, AA is the alpha value. This is described at the very beginning of this document: document link