Get background color of a Layout

Question

I want to find the background color of a Layout from my code. Is there any way to find it? something like linearLayout.getBackgroundColor()?

Answer 1

ColorDrawable.getColor() will only work with API level above 11, so you can use this code to support it from API level 1. Use reflection below API level 11.

public static int getBackgroundColor(View view) {
        Drawable drawable = view.getBackground();
        if (drawable instanceof ColorDrawable) {
            ColorDrawable colorDrawable = (ColorDrawable) drawable;
            if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 11) {
                return colorDrawable.getColor();
            }
            try {
                Field field = colorDrawable.getClass().getDeclaredField("mState");
                field.setAccessible(true);
                Object object = field.get(colorDrawable);
                field = object.getClass().getDeclaredField("mUseColor");
                field.setAccessible(true);
                return field.getInt(object);
            } catch (NoSuchFieldException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
        return 0;
    }