How to use Android color swatches

Question

The Design Page of Android Developers Site has a category about colors. Color | Android Developers

There are good looking colors and they gratefully provide a download link for the color swatches. I don't know how to use them. The downloaded .zip contains the following files:

• Android-ics.aco
• Android-ics.ase
• Android-ics.gpl
• NOTICE.txt
• values.txt

Does anybody know how to use these files? I guess I need a program to extract the color values?

Edit: OK it looks like it is an Adobe Color suite file. Does anybody know a free program to use these files?

Answer 1

If you're looking to skip adding the swatches, I created an XML with all of the values below. "01" is the darkest of the set, and "14" is the lightest, according to this page.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <resources>  <color name="blue01">#0099CC</color> <color name="blue02">#079DD0</color> <color name="blue03">#0FA1D3</color> <color name="blue04">#16A5D7</color> <color name="blue05">#1DA9DA</color> <color name="blue06">#24ADDE</color> <color name="blue07">#2CB1E1</color> <color name="blue08">#33B5E5</color> <color name="blue09">#50C0E9</color> <color name="blue10">#6DCAEC</color> <color name="blue11">#8AD5F0</color> <color name="blue12">#A8DFF4</color> <color name="blue13">#C5EAF8</color> <color name="blue14">#E2F4FB</color>  <color name="purple01">#9933CC</color> <color name="purple02">#A041D0</color> <color name="purple03">#A750D3</color> <color name="purple04">#AC59D6</color> <color name="purple05">#B368D9</color> <color name="purple06">#BA75DC</color> <color name="purple07">#C182E0</color> <color name="purple08">#C58BE2</color> <color name="purple09">#CB97E5</color> <color name="purple10">#CF9FE7</color> <color name="purple11">#D6ADEB</color> <color name="purple12">#DDBCEE</color> <color name="purple13">#E5CAF2</color> <color name="purple14">#F5EAFA</color>  <color name="green01">#669900</color> <color name="green02">#6DA000</color> <color name="green03">#75A800</color> <color name="green04">#7CAF00</color> <color name="green05">#83B600</color> <color name="green06">#8ABD00</color> <color name="green07">#92C500</color> <color name="green08">#99CC00</color> <color name="green09">#A8D324</color> <color name="green10">#B6DB49</color> <color name="green11">#C5E26D</color> <color name="green12">#D3E992</color> <color name="green13">#E2F0B6</color> <color name="green14">#F0F8DB</color>  <color name="orange01">#FF8A00</color> <color name="orange02">#FF9105</color> <color name="orange03">#FF9909</color> <color name="orange04">#FFA00E</color> <color name="orange05">#FFA713</color> <color name="orange06">#FFAE18</color> <color name="orange07">#FFB61C</color> <color name="orange08">#FFBD21</color> <color name="orange09">#FFC641</color> <color name="orange10">#FFD060</color> <color name="orange11">#FFD980</color> <color name="orange12">#FFE3A0</color> <color name="orange13">#FFECC0</color> <color name="orange14">#FFF6DF</color>  <color name="red01">#CC0000</color> <color name="red02">#D30A0A</color> <color name="red03">#DB1313</color> <color name="red04">#E21D1D</color> <color name="red05">#E92727</color> <color name="red06">#F03131</color> <color name="red07">#F83A3A</color> <color name="red08">#FF4444</color> <color name="red09">#FF5F5F</color> <color name="red10">#FF7979</color> <color name="red11">#FF9494</color> <color name="red12">#FFAFAF</color> <color name="red13">#FFCACA</color> <color name="red14">#FFE4E4</color>   </resources> 

Answer 2

aco is adobe photoshop format http://www.nomodes.com/aco.html

gpl is gimp format (gimp is free and also can open aco http://www.gimp.org/)