Challenge Task 2 of 2

There are a couple ways to show color.

If this is a color that will be used a lot through out your app. You will want to do the following

 android:background="@color/toolbar_background"

This says make background equal to some color that I called toolbar_background.

How does this work? Inside your directory structure for you application. There is a folder called values. It's inside the "res" folder. What you do is create a file called color.xml

Inside that you put

<resources xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <color name="toolbar_background">#000000</color>

All together, inside my layout. I have referenced @ color. Which by default will look for a file "color.xml" inside the values folder.

This way whenever I want to use this color, I just reference it like I did above. That way if I want to change the color I can change it in the color.xml in one place. Thus changing it through out the whole app. This is the BEST way to do this.

Android also has default colors that you don't need to add to the color.xml. That is why they reference @adroid for the color since it's an android standard color.

HERE IS THE ANSWER -- when using colors in hex format. You just have to put the color in. See android:Background for an example.

There is also an example of @android:color/white. If you had a color.xml defined, you wouldn't need the @android since @android says it's an android defautl, or that is how I think about it.

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  android:layout_width="match_parent"
  android:layout_height="match_parent"
  android:background="#fff092b0" >

  <TextView
    android:id="@+id/textView1"
    android:textColor="@android:color/white"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
    android:layout_centerVertical="true"
    android:text="Treehouse loves me!"
    android:textSize="72sp" />

</RelativeLayout>