ContextCompat.GetColor not returning Color

Question

I'm trying to replace Resources.GetColor with ContextCompat.GetColor but the last one does not return a color and I don't get what should i use instead of Resources.GetColor(which became deprecated from API 23). Can anyone help me (see below what I want to achieve)?

Button.SetBackgroundColor(ContextCompat.GetColor(this, Resource.Color.LightRed));

Note that I use Xamarin, but if you have answer in java I can easily adapt it. Thank you!

Answer 1

ContextCompat just returns an integer representation of your color. You need to convert it to an Android color by splitting its RGB parts up. Use something like this

using Android.Graphics;

public static Color GetColorFromInteger(int color)
{
    return Color.Rgb(Color.GetRedComponent(color), Color.GetGreenComponent(color), Color.GetBlueComponent(color));
}

and in your method

btn.SetBackgroundColor(GetColorFromInteger(ContextCompat.GetColor(this, Resource.Color.LightRed);