Color mixing in android

Question

I am working on application in which i have five colors:Red,Green,Blue,Yellow,purple

I want to implement color mixing from those colors:such that like there are five button for each color.

User touch whichever color button this color mix with previously drawn color.

I have not any clue how to add two color codes and get third color.

EDitED:

I have to also set this color to imageview's bitmap

how can i set this?

Answer 1

Since April 2015 you can use blendARGB method from v4 support library:

int resultColor = ColorUtils.blendARGB(color1, color2, 0.5F);

Ratio value has to be 0.5 to achive even mix.

Answer 2

SlidingTabStrip has really useful method for blending colors, looks great when used with ViewPager:

private static int blendColors(int color1, int color2, float ratio) {
    final float inverseRation = 1f - ratio;
    float r = (Color.red(color1) * ratio) + (Color.red(color2) * inverseRation);
    float g = (Color.green(color1) * ratio) + (Color.green(color2) * inverseRation);
    float b = (Color.blue(color1) * ratio) + (Color.blue(color2) * inverseRation);
    return Color.rgb((int) r, (int) g, (int) b);
}