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Android Build a Simple Android App (2014) Creating the Screen Layout Setting Colors

Posted by Harry Botonakis
Harry Botonakis
Courses Plus Student 337 Points

The question with changing the Relative LAyout to dark pink wont work and I cant finish stage 2 ,cause of the code.

I have tried to change the color in the code.The color is supposed to be #ff56789 or somethin , so what can we do to change the color in code, at the whole Layout?

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points
Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

post the code you have tried so far please

3 Answers

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points
Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

the relativeLayout already has a background attribute, so all you need to do is change the color thats between the quotes. currently it looks like this:

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  android:layout_width="match_parent"
  android:layout_height="match_parent"
  android:background="@android:color/white" >

to change the background color to a different color just change the value that comes after android:background=

so since we need to make the color #fff092b0 we can simply remove whats currently in the quotes and replace it with #fff092b0

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  android:layout_width="match_parent"
  android:layout_height="match_parent"
  android:background="#fff092b0" >
Harry Botonakis
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Harry Botonakis
Courses Plus Student 337 Points
Harry Botonakis
Harry Botonakis
Courses Plus Student 337 Points

thanks a million my friend Peter

Harry Botonakis
PLUS
Harry Botonakis
Courses Plus Student 337 Points
Harry Botonakis
Harry Botonakis
Courses Plus Student 337 Points

I think its easy/common sense wise, I tried it and it wouldnt do anything so I can finish stage 2.