Getting the background color of an ImageView

Question

I have a plain ImageView object colorSquare.

It is straightforward to set the color of the object by calling.

colorSquare.setBackgroundColor(color);

But how do I do the reverse, i.e. retrieve the color of the ImageView background?

Answer 1

What u can do is

get ColorDrawable from ImageView.

ColorDrawable drawable = (ColorDrawable) colorSquare.getBackground();

now

drawable.getColor()

will give u the Color.

This will work only if u have set the Color or else u will get ClassCastException