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user3141401
user3141401

Reputation: 37

Colors and Colors name

I have a string array in strings.xml which is an array of color name. And, I listed colors in colors.xml with the same name as the array item. Now, I am trying to set the background of view using the color name (string) from strings.xml. How can i do that?

<color name="aliceBlue">#F0F8FF</color>
    <color name="antiqueWhite">#faebd7</color>
    <color name="antiqueWhite1">#ffefdb</color>
    <color name="antiqueWhite2">#eedfcc</color>
    <color name="antiqueWhite3">#cdc0b0</color>
    <color name="antiqueWhite4">#8b8378</color>
    <color name="aquaMarine1">#7fffd4</color>
    <color name="aquaMarine2">#76eec6</color>
    <color name="aquaMarine4">#458b74</color>
    <color name="azure1">#f0ffff</color>
    <color name="azure2">#e0eeee</color>
    <color name="azure3">#c1cdcd</color>
    <color name="azure4">#838b8b</color>

color.xml

<string-array name="colorNameArray">
    <item>AliceBlue</item>
    <item>AntiqueWhite</item>
    <item>AntiqueWhite1</item>
    <item>AntiqueWhite2</item>
    <item>AntiqueWhite3</item>
    <item>AntiqueWhite4</item>
    <item>aquamarine1</item><item>
    aquamarine2</item>
    <item>aquamarine4</item>
    <item>azure1</item>
    <item>azure2</item>
    <item>azure3</item>
    <item>azure4</item>

strings.xml

Please guys, your help is appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 141

Answers (2)

Shayan Pourvatan
Shayan Pourvatan

Reputation: 11948

change 

 <item>AliceBlue</item>

to

 <item>@color/AliceBlue</item>

change all of them, you need @color/ before tag

for more info see:

How can I save colors in array.xml and get its back to Color[] array

then you can get your colors as:

  int[] colorArray = getResources().getIntArray(R.array.colorNameArray);

then you can set your color.

if you have more that one item and you need change all of them you can use following code:

1- create one Array of View

  ArrayList<View> views = new ArrayList<View>();

2- add All view that you want set background to your list 

  views.add(iv);
  views.add(tv);

3- in for statement change all background, like:

  for (int i = 0 ; i < views.size() ; i++ )
  {
      // set background with views.get(i) and colorArray[i]

  }

Upvotes: 1

committedandroider
committedandroider

Reputation: 9261

get a java object reference to the view. And call this method on that reference setBackgroundColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.color_name));

Upvotes: 0

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