Android get color as string value

Question

If i defined a color in resources

    #123456

it\'s possible

Answer 1

For API above 21 you can use

getString(R.color.color_name);

This will return the color in a string format. To convert that to a color in integer format (sometimes only integers are accepted) then:

Color.parseColor(getString(R.color.color_name));

The above expression returns the integer equivalent of the color defined in color.xml file