Question

I have variable:

String colorName = "BLUE";

I want to set this color to the paint in android application. It should be something like this:

paint.setColor ("Color." + colorName);

But I receive the error warning because argument for setColor() function should be int.
Any ideas?Thanks.

Answer 1

Try this:

protected static final int colorName = Color.BLUE;
paint.setColor(colorName);

EDIT: as i see, you get your Color as a string.
So you have to check, what color it is and then set your ‘colorName’ variable.
Something like this:

if(yourcolorstring.equals("Blue")){
     colorName = Color.BLUE;
}else if(yourcolorstring.equals("Black")){
     colorName = Color.BLACK;
}else{
     colorName = Color.WHITE;
}