How to set paint.setColor(R.color.white)

Question

I have a custom View that uses Paint and Canvas to draw objects. My question is how to set:

int color = R.color.white;
paint.setColor(color);

Answer 1

first get your color from xml file

int color = context.getResources().getColor(R.color.colorPrimary); // old

is deprecated now, use this instead

int color = ContextCompat.getColor(context, R.color.colorPrimary); // new

set color

paint.setColor(color);

xml file preview: res/values/color.xml

    #3F51B5
    #303F9F
    #FF4081