Question

I am adding a boundary for my layout but its not allowing me define the color other than white or black. Weird! This is a code snippet of boundary.xml in resource folder.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:shape="rectangle" >

<stroke
    android:width="2dip"
    android:color="@android:color/white" />

</shape>

Answer 1

You can define your own colors in colors.xml, and then use them in your drawable as @color/mycolor
You can also use directly color codes for the android:color attribute, like #F00, #4F00 (contains alpha channel), #FF0000 or #44FF0000 (again, has alpha channel)