Java/Android String to Color conversion

Question

I'm making an app and I'd like to be able to set various colors via user input(edittext) and hex values e.g. #eeeeee and so on. Problem is I cannot seem to figure out how to convert them.

If I do something in code like this it works fine: titlebar.setBackgroundColor(0xFF545455);

However if I retrieve a value via the edittext say "545455" I cannot get it work

          String tbColor = tb_color.getText().toString();             
          String value = "0xFF" + tbColor;  
          int setColor = Integer.valueOf(value);
          titlebar.setBackgroundColor(setColor);

Anyone have any ideas on how to accomplish this?

Solution 1

http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/Integer.html#parseInt(java.lang.String, int)

For example:

titlebar.setBackgroundColor(Integer.parseInt("545455", 16)+0xFF000000);

Solution 2

What about titlebar.setBackgroundColor(Color.parseColor("#545455"));

Comments

[Paul]

That produces a value of 5526613 and doesn't correctly set to the right color.

[Luis Pena]

Worked perfectly! But please could you help me understand why adding: "+0xFF000000" made it work??

[Allan Ramírez]

Luis Alberto, because the 545455 replaces the 000000 after the 0xFF is just like: 850 + 100000 = 100850 (but in hexadecimal format) BTW 0xFF defines the alpha (transparency)