Color.parseColor returns negative

Question

I have just tried to do like

System.out.println("color == " + Color.parseColor("#F5F5F5"));

then it returns like

color == -657931

anyone knows why, please?

Answer 1

First of all parseColor method will return an integer representation of the hexadecimal F5F5F5 which is actually FFF5F5F5 + the opacity of the color.

the decimal value of FFF5F5F5 is 4294309365 which is then converted to integer that will overflow thus giving your that negative number.

here is an example of that overflow

    int i = (int)4294309365L; //4294309365L the decimal representation of FFF5F5F5
    System.out.println(i); //result: -657931