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Start your free trialFarouk Charkas
1,957 PointsDoes anybody know how to do this?
So I am working on the Android course. Soon on this code challenge, I thought I have mastered it just to find out i dont know how to set a color from the XML using hexcode, the code is below, what am I doing wrong?
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="@android:color/#fff092b0" >
<TextView
android:id="@+id/textView1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:text="Treehouse loves me!"
android:textSize="72sp"
android:textColor="@android:color/white" />
</RelativeLayout>
1 Answer
Jon Kussmann
Courses Plus Student 7,254 PointsHi Evering,
Android has some "default" colors that you can access in XML like you have done with "@android:color/white". What this does is it acts like a "placeholder" for the hex color of white... so in reality "@android:color/white" would be the same as saying "#ffffffff"
If you want to use a different color not provided by Android, you can use the hex value directly like so:
android:background="#fff092b0"
I hope this helps.