One subtle note, the use of '#' is a "shortcut" for expressing colors in HTML style (omitting the first byte for alpha). The more "programmatic" way is to actually use an int literal expressed in HEX by using the standard HEX prefix 0x.

So it would be like this:

  int myColor = 0xFFFF0000;

Here was can express the Full color including the alpha, which is the first byte. So for a half opaque color red we could write:

int myColor = 0x7FFF0000;

I would get in the habit of using the HEX prefix, this is the programmers style, # is for web pages!

• unhex()
• int()
• float()
• etc.