How to change the floating label color of TextInpu

Question

With reference to the new TextInputLayout released by Google, how do I change the floating label text color?

Setting colorControlNormal, colorControlActivated, colorControlHighLight in styles does not help.

This is what I have now:

Answer 1

to change color of the text label when you are focusing on it. i.e. typing in it. you have to add specify

<item name="android:textColorPrimary">@color/yourcolorhere</item>

Just a note: You have to add all these implementations to your main theme.

Answer 2

  <style name="AppTheme2" parent="AppTheme">
    <!-- Customize your theme here. -->
    <item name="colorControlNormal">#fff</item>
    <item name="colorControlActivated">#fff</item></style>    

add this to styles and set TextInputLayout Theam to App2 and it will work ;)

Answer 3

Try The Below Code It Works In Normal State

 <android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout
     android:layout_width="match_parent"
     android:layout_height="wrap_content"
     android:theme="@style/TextLabel">

     <android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatEditText
         android:layout_width="match_parent"
         android:layout_height="wrap_content"
         android:hint="Hiiiii"
         android:id="@+id/edit_id"/>

 </android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout>

In Styles Folder TextLabel Code

 <style name="TextLabel" parent="TextAppearance.AppCompat">
    <!-- Hint color and label color in FALSE state -->
    <item name="android:textColorHint">@color/Color Name</item> 
    <item name="android:textSize">20sp</item>
    <!-- Label color in TRUE state and bar color FALSE and TRUE State -->
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/Color Name</item>
    <item name="colorControlNormal">@color/Color Name</item>
    <item name="colorControlActivated">@color/Color Name</item>
 </style>

Set To Main Theme of App,It Works Only Highlight State Only

 <item name="colorAccent">@color/Color Name</item>

Update:

UnsupportedOperationException: Can't convert to color: type=0x2 in api 16 or below

Solution

Answer 4

Found the answer, use android.support.design:hintTextAppearance attribute to set your own floating label appearance.

Example:

<android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    app:hintTextAppearance="@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat">

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/password"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:hint="@string/prompt_password"/>
</android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout>

Answer 5

I solve the problem. This is Layout：

 <android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout
           android:id="@+id/til_username"
           android:layout_width="match_parent"
           android:layout_height="wrap_content"
           android:hint="@string/username"
           >

           <android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatEditText android:id="@+id/et_username"
               android:layout_width="match_parent"
               android:layout_height="wrap_content"
               android:singleLine="true"
               />
       </android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout>

This is Style:

<style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
        <!--
            Theme customizations available in newer API levels can go in
            res/values-vXX/styles.xml, while customizations related to
            backward-compatibility can go here.
        -->
    </style>
<!-- Application theme. -->


 <style name="AppTheme" parent="AppBaseTheme">
        <!-- All customizations that are NOT specific to a particular API-level can go here. -->
        <item name="colorAccent">@color/pink</item>
        <item name="colorControlNormal">@color/purple</item>
        <item name="colorControlActivated">@color/yellow</item>
    </style>

You should use your theme in application:

<application
        android:allowBackup="true"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >
</application>

Answer 6

<style name="TextAppearance.App.TextInputLayout" parent="@android:style/TextAppearance">
    <item name="android:textColor">@color/red</item>
    <item name="android:textSize">14sp</item>
</style>

<android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:textColorHint="@color/gray"  //support 23.0.0
    app:hintTextAppearance="@style/TextAppearence.App.TextInputLayout" >

    <android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatEditText
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:hint="@string/hint" />
</android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout>