Programmatically get color from resource using ContextCompat that doesn't ignore night qualifier

Question

I'm currently using ContextCompat.getColor, however it's not fetching the correct colour. When the app is adhering to the night resource qualifier, ContextCompat fetches the color from values/colors.xml and not values-night/colors.xml.

I've tried apporaches like this https://stackoverflow.com/a/13952929/333733 using a theme with one residing in values/styles.xml and values-night/styles.xml but it seems the color is precompiled using the resource folder without the -night qualifier.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 24 '16 at 03:01

You can check for which mode the theme is in yourself:

int currentNightMode = getResources().getConfiguration().uiMode
        & Configuration.UI_MODE_NIGHT_MASK;
switch (currentNightMode) {
    case Configuration.UI_MODE_NIGHT_NO:
        // Night mode is not active, we're in day time
    case Configuration.UI_MODE_NIGHT_YES:
        // Night mode is active, we're at night!
    case Configuration.UI_MODE_NIGHT_UNDEFINED:
        // We don't know what mode we're in, assume notnight
}

Source: https://medium.com/@chrisbanes/appcompat-v23-2-daynight-d10f90c83e94#.l2fswuy4z

Programmatically get color from resource using ContextCompat that doesn't ignore night qualifier

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