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Asked: 2026-05-23T14:17:51+00:00

I need to convert a color integer value back to text? For example, look

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I need to convert a color integer value back to text? For example, look at this imaginative code

int myColor = -16777216; //int value for Color.BLACK
convertColorToText(myColor);

The method would return string with value “BLACK”.

Is this possible and how to do it?

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My app uses a Color Picker (code.google.com/p/android-color-picker) and I want to notify user which color has he chosen. For example, he chooses a black color, clicks OK button, and sees a Toast saying “You have chosen Black color”.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I don’t think you can do it out-of-the-box, best what you can do is to build a map or list of known colors (for example using ‘red’, ‘blue’, ‘green’, ‘black’, ‘white’, ‘gray’, ‘cyan’, ‘magenta’, ‘yellow’, ‘lightgray’, ‘darkgray’ -> standard android colors understood by parseColor method http://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/Color.html#parseColor(java.lang.String)

    And then you could find it by lookup and either exact match (but the usefulness of this would be limited) or finding the CLOSEST color. You can find out about a good and simplest algorithm of finding best match here, for example: Best algorithm for matching colours.

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