Set Background color programmatically

I try to set background color programmatically but when I set every one of my colors, the background being black but with any color background being white like the application theme.

View someView = findViewById(R.id.screen);
View root = someView.getRootView();
root.setBackgroundColor(color.white);

Can you see the code?

I didn't understand your question ... what do you mean by "when i set every one of my colour"? try this (edit: "#fffff" in original answer changed to "#ffffff"

  yourView.setBackgroundColor(Color.parseColor("#ffffff"));

you need to use getResources() method, try to use following code

View someView = findViewById(R.id.screen);
View root = someView.getRootView();
root.setBackgroundColor(getResources().getColor(color.white)); 

Edit::

getResources.getColor() is deprecated so, use like below

 root.setBackgroundColor(ContextCompat.getColor(this, R.color.white)); 

You can use

 root.setBackgroundColor(0xFFFFFFFF);

or

 root.setBackgroundColor(Color.parseColor("#ffffff"));

The previous answers are now deprecated, you need to use ContextCompat.getColor to retrieve the color properly:

root.setBackgroundColor(ContextCompat.getColor(getActivity(), R.color.white));

If you just want to use some of the predefined Android colors, you can use Color.COLOR (where COLOR is BLACK, WHITE, RED, etc.):

myView.setBackgroundColor(Color.GREEN);

Otherwise you can do as others have suggested with

myView.setBackgroundColor(ContextCompat.getColor(getActivity(), R.color.myCustomGreen));

I don't recommend using a hex color directly. You should keep all of your custom colors in colors.xml.

This must work:

you must use getResources().getColor(R.color.WHITE) to get the color resource, which you must add in the colors.xml resource file

View someView = findViewById(R.id.screen);

someView.setBackgroundColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.WHITE));

If you save color code in the colors.xml which is under the values folder,then you should call the following:

root.setBackgroundColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.name));

name means you declare in the <color/> tag.

In my case it wasn't changing the color because I was setting the color in my xml resource.

After delete the line that set the color it worked perfectly programmatically

This is an example I did in a RecyclerView

final Drawable drawable = ContextCompat.getDrawable(mContext, R.drawable.ic_icon).mutate();

if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.JELLY_BEAN) {
    holder.image.setBackground(drawable);
} else {
    holder.image.setBackgroundDrawable(drawable);
}