diff --git a/core/java/android/text/Html.java b/core/java/android/text/Html.java
index 55af087ca5b81..e3cb382256ae2 100644
--- a/core/java/android/text/Html.java
+++ b/core/java/android/text/Html.java
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ import android.text.style.TypefaceSpan;
 import android.text.style.URLSpan;
 import android.text.style.UnderlineSpan;
 
+import com.android.internal.util.XmlUtils;
+
 import org.ccil.cowan.tagsoup.HTMLSchema;
 import org.ccil.cowan.tagsoup.Parser;
 import org.xml.sax.Attributes;
@@ -1188,7 +1190,25 @@ class HtmlToSpannedConverter implements ContentHandler {
                 return i;
             }
         }
-        return Color.getHtmlColor(color);
+
+        // If |color| is the name of a color, pass it to Color to convert it. Otherwise,
+        // it may start with "#", "0", "0x", "+", or a digit. All of these cases are
+        // handled below by XmlUtils. (Note that parseColor accepts colors starting
+        // with "#", but it treats them differently from XmlUtils.)
+        if (Character.isLetter(color.charAt(0))) {
+            try {
+                return Color.parseColor(color);
+            } catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
+                return -1;
+            }
+        }
+
+        try {
+            return XmlUtils.convertValueToInt(color, -1);
+        } catch (NumberFormatException nfe) {
+            return -1;
+        }
+
     }
 
     public void setDocumentLocator(Locator locator) {
diff --git a/graphics/java/android/graphics/Color.java b/graphics/java/android/graphics/Color.java
index c4bf9d3123bfd..87a805379b56a 100644
--- a/graphics/java/android/graphics/Color.java
+++ b/graphics/java/android/graphics/Color.java
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ import android.annotation.Nullable;
 import android.annotation.Size;
 import android.annotation.SuppressAutoDoc;
 import android.util.Half;
-import com.android.internal.util.XmlUtils;
 
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.HashMap;
@@ -1476,29 +1475,6 @@ public class Color {
     private static native void nativeRGBToHSV(int red, int greed, int blue, float hsv[]);
     private static native int nativeHSVToColor(int alpha, float hsv[]);
 
-    /**
-     * Converts an HTML color (named or numeric) to an integer RGB value.
-     *
-     * @param color Non-null color string.
-     *
-     * @return A color value, or {@code -1} if the color string could not be interpreted.
-     *
-     * @hide
-     */
-    @ColorInt
-    public static int getHtmlColor(@NonNull String color) {
-        Integer i = sColorNameMap.get(color.toLowerCase(Locale.ROOT));
-        if (i != null) {
-            return i;
-        } else {
-            try {
-                return XmlUtils.convertValueToInt(color, -1);
-            } catch (NumberFormatException nfe) {
-                return -1;
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
     private static final HashMap<String, Integer> sColorNameMap;
     static {
         sColorNameMap = new HashMap<>();