I am trying to set default style for edit text view. In this example, I have set default style for editText as well as for textView.
Here is my styles.xml from values folder:
<resources>
<style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">
</style>
<!-- Application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="AppBaseTheme">
<item name="android:editTextStyle">@style/AppTheme.EditText</item>
<item name="android:textViewStyle">@style/AppTheme.TextView</item>
</style>
<style name="AppTheme.EditText" parent="android:Widget.EditText">
<item name="android:textColor">@color/red</item>
<item name="android:padding">10dp</item>
</style>
<style name="AppTheme.TextView" parent="android:Widget.TextView">
<item name="android:textColor">@color/red</item>
<item name="android:padding">10dp</item>
</style>
</resources>
As shown in the snapshots below, I have added two editText and two textView in layout.
Here is my layout:
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<TextView
android:id="@+id/textView1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="20dp"
android:text="TextView1" />
<TextView
android:id="@+id/textView2"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="@+id/textView1"
android:layout_marginTop="20dp"
android:text="TextView2" />
<EditText
android:id="@+id/editText1"
style="@style/AppTheme.EditText"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="@+id/textView2"
android:layout_marginTop="20dp"
android:ems="10"
android:text="EditText1" >
</EditText>
<EditText
android:id="@+id/editText2"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="@+id/editText1"
android:layout_marginTop="20dp"
android:ems="10"
android:text="EditText2" >
</EditText>
</RelativeLayout>
Now the issue is, default style for textView works fine but for editText view it does not reflect the style. If I explicitly set style for editText then it reflects as expected (as done for editText1), but not by default. Text color for editText2 should be red but it's not. Am I missing something?