Setting background colour of Android layout element

Question

I am trying to, somewhat clone the design of an activity from a set of slides on Android UI design. However I am having a problem with a very simple task.

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Answer 1

If you want to change a color quickly (and you don't have Hex numbers memorized) android has a few preset colors you can access like this:

android:background="@android:color/black"

There are 15 colors you can choose from which is nice for testing things out quickly, and you don't need to set up additional files.

Setting up a values/colors.xml file and using straight Hex like explained above will still work.