Understanding colors on Android (six characters)

Android uses hexadecimal ARGB values, which are formatted as #AARRGGBB. That first pair of letters, the AA, represent the alpha channel. You must convert your decimal opacity values to a hexadecimal value. Here are the steps:

Alpha Hex Value Process

1. Take your opacity as a decimal value and multiply it by 255. So, if you have a block that is 50% opaque the decimal value would be .5. For example: .5 x 255 = 127.5
2. The fraction won't convert to hexadecimal, so you must round your number up or down to the nearest whole number. For example: 127.5 rounds up to 128; 55.25 rounds down to 55.
3. Enter your decimal value in a decimal-to-hexadecimal converter, like http://www.binaryhexconverter.com/decimal-to-hex-converter, and convert your values.
4. If you only get back a single value, prefix it with a zero. For example, if you're trying to get 5% opacity and you're going through this process, you'll end up with the hexadecimal value of D. Add a zero in front of it so it appears as 0D.

That's how you find the alpha channel value. I've taken the liberty to put together a list of values for you. Enjoy!

Hex Opacity Values

• 100% — FF
• 95% — F2
• 90% — E6
• 85% — D9
• 80% — CC
• 75% — BF
• 70% — B3
• 65% — A6
• 60% — 99
• 55% — 8C
• 50% — 80
• 45% — 73
• 40% — 66
• 35% — 59
• 30% — 4D
• 25% — 40
• 20% — 33
• 15% — 26
• 10% — 1A
• 5% — 0D
• 0% — 00

Going off the answer from @BlondeFurious, here is some Java code to get each hexadecimal value from 100% to 0% alpha:

for (double i = 1; i >= 0; i -= 0.01) {    i = Math.round(i * 100) / 100.0d;    int alpha = (int) Math.round(i * 255);    String hex = Integer.toHexString(alpha).toUpperCase();    if (hex.length() == 1)        hex = "0" + hex;    int percent = (int) (i * 100);    System.out.println(String.format("%d%% — %s", percent, hex));}

Output:

100% — FF99% — FC98% — FA97% — F796% — F595% — F294% — F093% — ED92% — EB91% — E890% — E689% — E388% — E087% — DE86% — DB85% — D984% — D683% — D482% — D181% — CF80% — CC79% — C978% — C777% — C476% — C275% — BF74% — BD73% — BA72% — B871% — B570% — B369% — B068% — AD67% — AB66% — A865% — A664% — A363% — A162% — 9E61% — 9C60% — 9959% — 9658% — 9457% — 9156% — 8F55% — 8C54% — 8A53% — 8752% — 8551% — 8250% — 8049% — 7D48% — 7A47% — 7846% — 7545% — 7344% — 7043% — 6E42% — 6B41% — 6940% — 6639% — 6338% — 6137% — 5E36% — 5C35% — 5934% — 5733% — 5432% — 5231% — 4F30% — 4D29% — 4A28% — 4727% — 4526% — 4225% — 4024% — 3D23% — 3B22% — 3821% — 3620% — 3319% — 3018% — 2E17% — 2B16% — 2915% — 2614% — 2413% — 2112% — 1F11% — 1C10% — 1A9% — 178% — 147% — 126% — 0F5% — 0D4% — 0A3% — 082% — 051% — 030% — 00

A JavaScript version is below:

var text = document.getElementById('text');for (var i = 1; i >= 0; i -= 0.01) {    i = Math.round(i * 100) / 100;    var alpha = Math.round(i * 255);    var hex = (alpha + 0x10000).toString(16).substr(-2).toUpperCase();    var perc = Math.round(i * 100);    text.innerHTML += perc + "% — " + hex + " (" + alpha + ")</br>";}

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