xamarin set view background color from a hex value

Question

How do i programatically set the background color of a view using xamarin from the hex value

For example

 view.BackgroundColor = Color.FromHex("#00162E");

Answer 1

I believe you're looking for the ParseColor method that takes in a string and returns the integer color.

view.BackgroundColor = Android.Graphics.Color.ParseColor("#FF6A00");

Supported formats are:

• #RRGGBB
• #AARRGGBB
• 'red', 'blue', 'green', 'black', 'white', 'gray', 'cyan', 'magenta', 'yellow', 'lightgray', 'darkgray'