How to get accent color programmatically?

Question

How would one fetch the accent color set in styles, like below, programmatically?

    @color/material_green_500<         


        

Answer 1

Here's my take on this:

public static String getThemeColorInHex(@NonNull Context context, @NonNull String colorName, @AttrRes int attribute) {
    TypedValue outValue = new TypedValue();
    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP) {
        context.getTheme().resolveAttribute(attribute, outValue, true);
    } else {
        // get color defined for AppCompat
        int appCompatAttribute = context.getResources().getIdentifier(colorName, "attr", context.getPackageName());
        context.getTheme().resolveAttribute(appCompatAttribute, outValue, true);
    }
    return String.format("#%06X", (0xFFFFFF & outValue.data));
}

Usage:

    String windowBackgroundHex = getThemeColorInHex(this, "windowBackground", android.R.attr.windowBackground);
    String primaryColorHex = getThemeColorInHex(this, "colorPrimary", R.attr.colorPrimary);