B4J Code Snippet [B4X] Contrast Background and text colors

Subname: ContrastColor

Description:
If you have an app in which the user can change the background colour you need to be able to change the text colour of controls accordingly. I found a code snippet that returns black or white depending on the luminosity of a colour which seems to do the trick so I thought I'd share it. the code was found here

Public Sub ContrastColor(Color As Int) As Int
    'From https://stackoverflow.com/a/41335343
    'Counting the perceptive luminance - human eye favors green color...
    '                                        Red                                           Green                                       Blue
    Dim A As Double = 1 - (0.299 * Bit.And(Bit.ShiftRight(Color,16),0xFF) + 0.587 * Bit.And(Bit.ShiftRight(Color,8),0XFF) + 0.114 * Bit.And(Color,0xFF)) / 255
    If A < 0.5 Then
        Return XUI.Color_Black
    Else
        Return XUI.Color_White
    End If
End Sub

The Sub requires an Int which is fine for B4a, B4i and XUI, If you want to use it in B4j without XUI then you can convert a Paint object to an int using fx.Colors.To32Bit and fx.Colors.From32Bit and change the Return Type and objects as necessary.

Tags: Contrast, Color, B4j, B4a,B4i, XUI

 

[klaus]

B4i uses also an Int to represent a Color.
I use the same algorithm in the xChart CustomView Class.

 

[stevel05]

Thanks Klaus, I have changed the Tags. I should have looked at xChart before searching