How to convert color names to its equivalent hex code?

Question

I want to display the TextView's text at particular color in which i am getting from server. From server colors are coming in string format. Like "YELLOW", "BLUE", "RED", "PURPLE" etc. How can we set this color to textview's text.

Can anybody have any idea about this?

Thanks

if you have a limited number of colors then manage yourself with a class or with database with the name and code of color — Gopal Singh Sirvi
– Gopal Singh Sirvi, Commented Jul 2, 2015 at 12:53
You should ask the server to send you colors in hex format, like #1034f4, or 0x1034f4 — Redwarp
– Redwarp, Commented Jul 2, 2015 at 12:53
Better do the conversion on server-side and receive colors as int/hex values. If possible of course. — Gordak
– Gordak, Commented Jul 2, 2015 at 12:55

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:24:41Z

If the server cannot send hex format as Redwarp's comment says, you can do basic colours like this;

Color.parseColor("RED")

Docs

Parse the color string, and return the corresponding color-int. If the string cannot be parsed, throws an IllegalArgumentException exception. Supported formats are: #RRGGBB #AARRGGBB 'red', 'blue', 'green', 'black', 'white', 'gray', 'cyan', 'magenta', 'yellow', 'lightgray', 'darkgray', 'grey', 'lightgrey', 'darkgrey', 'aqua', 'fuschia', 'lime', 'maroon', 'navy', 'olive', 'purple', 'silver', 'teal'

or create a color.xml in the values resource folder and create the colour resources like this;

<color name="white">#FFFFFF</color>

Blackbelt · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-02 13:17:51Z

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Use this

textView.setTextColor(Color.parseColor("RED"));

it will help you-

edited Jul 2, 2015 at 13:17

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