Color mixing in android

Question

I am working on application in which i have five colors:Red,Green,Blue,Yellow,purple

I want to implement color mixing from those colors:such that like there are five button for each color.

User touch whichever color button this color mix with previously drawn color.

I have not any clue how to add two color codes and get third color.

EDitED:

I have to also set this color to imageview's bitmap

how can i set this?

Answer 1

An alternative answer:

You can mix the bits in the hexs:

public static int mixTwoColors( int color1, int color2, float amount )
{
    final byte ALPHA_CHANNEL = 24;
    final byte RED_CHANNEL   = 16;
    final byte GREEN_CHANNEL =  8;
    final byte BLUE_CHANNEL  =  0;

    final float inverseAmount = 1.0f - amount;

    int a = ((int)(((float)(color1 >> ALPHA_CHANNEL & 0xff )*amount) +
                   ((float)(color2 >> ALPHA_CHANNEL & 0xff )*inverseAmount))) & 0xff;
    int r = ((int)(((float)(color1 >> RED_CHANNEL & 0xff )*amount) +
                   ((float)(color2 >> RED_CHANNEL & 0xff )*inverseAmount))) & 0xff;
    int g = ((int)(((float)(color1 >> GREEN_CHANNEL & 0xff )*amount) +
                   ((float)(color2 >> GREEN_CHANNEL & 0xff )*inverseAmount))) & 0xff;
    int b = ((int)(((float)(color1 & 0xff )*amount) +
                   ((float)(color2 & 0xff )*inverseAmount))) & 0xff;

    return a << ALPHA_CHANNEL | r << RED_CHANNEL | g << GREEN_CHANNEL | b << BLUE_CHANNEL;
}