Create a new color drawable
Since you’re talking about hex you have to start with 0x and don’t forget the opacity. So basically: 0xFFFF6666 ColorDrawable cd = new ColorDrawable(0xFFFF6666); You can also create a new colors.xml file into /res and define the colors like: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?> <resources> <color name=”mycolor”>#FF6666</color> </resources> and simply get the color defined in R.color.mycolor getResources().getColor(R.color.mycolor)