Colour resource ID returning wrong value

Question

I am trying to set the text colour programatically from a colour resource during onCreate and am getting some wierd results.

I have a colour resource defined in res\\colors.xml:

<resources>

    <color name="wheelFill">#C0FFFFFF</color>

</resources>

my activity then uses the following code to retrieve the colour:

int WheelColour = getResources().getColor(R.color.wheelFill);

Finally I assign it to a Paint:

mBackgroundPaint.setColor(WheelColour);

When I run my application the colour does not get set an I get a log message from the getColor line claiming that "Color value 'List' must start with #". 'List' is the value of one of my string resources so clearly something is getting messed up there.

If I bypass the resource and use:

int WheelColour = Color.argb(0xC0, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF);

Everything works correctly so it has to be the getColor call but I can't see what's wrong with it. (I have tried explicitly using a context which made no difference).

Has anybody else come across this or sucessfully managed to set paint colours from colour resources?

Answer 1

maybe your R.java got messed up and isn't linking to the correct resource. clean the project and refresh