How to convert a color integer to a hex String in Android?

You can use this for color without alpha:

String hexColor = String.format("#%06X", (0xFFFFFF & intColor));

or this with alpha:

String hexColor = String.format("#%08X", (0xFFFFFFFF & intColor));

With this method Integer.toHexString, you can have an Unknown color exception for some colors when using Color.parseColor.

And with this method String.format("#%06X", (0xFFFFFF & intColor)), you'll lose alpha value.

So I recommend this method:

public static String ColorToHex(int color) {
        int alpha = android.graphics.Color.alpha(color);
        int blue = android.graphics.Color.blue(color);
        int green = android.graphics.Color.green(color);
        int red = android.graphics.Color.red(color);

        String alphaHex = To00Hex(alpha);
        String blueHex = To00Hex(blue);
        String greenHex = To00Hex(green);
        String redHex = To00Hex(red);

        // hexBinary value: aabbggrr
        StringBuilder str = new StringBuilder("#");
        str.append(alphaHex);
        str.append(blueHex);
        str.append(greenHex);
        str.append(redHex );

        return str.toString();
    }

    private static String To00Hex(int value) {
        String hex = "00".concat(Integer.toHexString(value));
        return hex.substring(hex.length()-2, hex.length());
    }

If you use Integer.toHexString you will end-up with missed zeros when you convert colors like 0xFF000123. Here is my kotlin based solution which doesn't require neither android specific classes nor java. So you could use it in multiplatform project as well:

    fun Int.toRgbString(): String =
        "#${red.toStringComponent()}${green.toStringComponent()}${blue.toStringComponent()}".toUpperCase()

    fun Int.toArgbString(): String =
        "#${alpha.toStringComponent()}${red.toStringComponent()}${green.toStringComponent()}${blue.toStringComponent()}".toUpperCase()

    private fun Int.toStringComponent(): String =
        this.toString(16).let { if (it.length == 1) "0${it}" else it }

    inline val Int.alpha: Int
        get() = (this shr 24) and 0xFF

    inline val Int.red: Int
        get() = (this shr 16) and 0xFF

    inline val Int.green: Int
        get() = (this shr 8) and 0xFF

    inline val Int.blue: Int
        get() = this and 0xFF

use this way in Koltin

var hexColor = "#${Integer.toHexString(ContextCompat.getColor(context, R.color.colorTest))}"

Fixing alpha issue in Color picker libraries.

if you get an integer value in return when you pick color first convert it into the hex color.

    String hexVal = String.format("#%06X", (0xFFFFFFFF & 
    color)).toUpperCase();

    int length=hexVal.length();
    String withoutHash=hexVal.substring(1,length);


    while (withoutHash.length()<=7)
    {

        withoutHash="0"+withoutHash;

    }
    hexVal ="#"+withoutHash;

Simon's solution works well, alpha supported and color cases with a leading "zero" values in R, G, B, A, hex are not being ignored. A slightly modified version for java Color to hex String conversion is:

    public static String ColorToHex (Color color) {
    int red = color.getRed();
    int green = color.getGreen();
    int blue = color.getBlue();
    int alpha = color.getAlpha(); 

    String redHex = To00Hex(red);
    String greenHex = To00Hex(green);
    String blueHex = To00Hex(blue);
    String alphaHex = To00Hex(alpha);

    // hexBinary value: RRGGBBAA
    StringBuilder str = new StringBuilder("#");
    str.append(redHex);
    str.append(greenHex);
    str.append(blueHex);
    str.append(alphaHex);

    return str.toString();
}

private static String To00Hex(int value) {
    String hex = "00".concat(Integer.toHexString(value));
    hex=hex.toUpperCase();
    return hex.substring(hex.length()-2, hex.length());
} 

another solution could be:

public static String rgbToHex (Color color) {

   String hex = String.format("#%02x%02x%02x%02x", color.getRed(), color.getGreen(), color.getBlue(), color.getAlpha() );
   hex=hex.toUpperCase();
       return hex;
}

you can easily use

String hexColor = String.format("#%06X", (0xFFFFFF & intColor));