xamarin set view background color from a hex value

Question

How do i programatically set the background color of a view using xamarin from the hex value

For example

 view.BackgroundColor = Color.FromHex("#00162E");

Solution 1

I believe you're looking for the ParseColor method that takes in a string and returns the integer color.

view.BackgroundColor = Android.Graphics.Color.ParseColor("#FF6A00");

Supported formats are:

• #RRGGBB
• #AARRGGBB
• 'red', 'blue', 'green', 'black', 'white', 'gray', 'cyan', 'magenta', 'yellow', 'lightgray', 'darkgray'

Solution 2

From their example.. I think you just need to drop the #.

view.BackgroundColor = Color.FromHex("FF6A00")

http://developer.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/xamarin-forms/working-with/colors/

Depending on your target, you may want to try the parseColor method on the color class instead.

How to get a Color from hexadecimal Color String

public static int parseColor (String colorString)

It claims to take hex values :

... formats are: #RRGGBB #AARRGGBB 'red', 'blue', 'green', 'black', 'white', 'gray', 'cyan', 'magenta', 'yellow', 'lightgray', 'darkgray'

Comments

[CBaker]

I get an error saying Color does not contain a definition for FromHex.

[LawfulEvil]

You are working cross platform or are you just targeting ios or android or something?

[CBaker]

just targeting android. Im not using Xamarin Forms

[ClintL]

If you are not using forms you may want to take a look at stackoverflow.com/questions/5248583/…