xamarin set view background color from a hex value

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'

From their example.. I think you just need to drop the #.

view.BackgroundColor = Color.FromHex("FF6A00")

http://developer.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/xamarin-forms/working-with/colors/

Depending on your target, you may want to try the parseColor method on the color class instead.

How to get a Color from hexadecimal Color String

public static int parseColor (String colorString)

It claims to take hex values :

... formats are: #RRGGBB #AARRGGBB 'red', 'blue', 'green', 'black', 'white', 'gray', 'cyan', 'magenta', 'yellow', 'lightgray', 'darkgray'

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