Is there an easy way to see a color in Android Studio?

Question

If I search for a color, it returns me results in R.java:

public static final int cardview_light_background=0x7f040027;

How can I view this color code? It is an ARGB code and I can't find it easily.

Is there an easy way to see the color?

Answer 1

If you are looking into the R.java file, all the resources including colors are registered there but this value 0x7f040027 is a resource id but NOT a color.

public static final int cardview_light_background=0x7f040027;

You can see a preview inside the same colors.xml file and you must define the colors preferently here:

if you want to see the preview go directly to the colors.xml file.

As an example "#FFAABBCC"

• FF : alpha channel
• AA : Red Color.
• BB : Green Color.
• CC : Blue Color.

But wait, the color refered is a color from the SDK, to have a preview of this color you can write this line of code:

click in the blue description to get the preview in the left side from the SDK colors.xml file:

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In internet you can find several pages to have a preview of the color, you can define the color as ARGB or Hexadecimal format.

https://www.hexcolortool.com/