processing hex string to color

I’m reading hex colors from a JSON file, but need to get them as an int so I can create a color.

int col=Integer.parseInt("FF0000",16); 

returns 16711680

int c = unhex("FF0000");

returns 16711680

how do I do this?

Answer

What I did was simply recreated the color like this:

int c = Integer.parseInt(obj.getString("color"), 16);
c = color(red(c), green(c), blue(c));