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

Its Working for me ..... add hint color in TextInputLayout

    <android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout
        android:textColorHint="#ffffff"
        android:id="@+id/input_layout_password"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content">
        <EditText
            android:id="@+id/edtTextPassword"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginTop="15dp"
            android:hint="Password"
            android:inputType="textPassword"
            android:singleLine="true"
            />
    </android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout>

Answer 2

You don't need to use android:theme="@style/TextInputLayoutTheme" to change the floating label color, since it's going to affect to the entire theme for the small TextView used as label. Instead, you could use app:hintTextAppearance="@style/TextInputLayout.HintText" where:

<style name="TextInputLayout.HintText">
  <item name="android:textColor">?attr/colorPrimary</item>
  <item name="android:textSize">@dimen/text_tiny_size</item>
  ...
</style>

Let me know if the solution works :-)

Answer 3

you should change your colour here

<style name="Base.Theme.DesignDemo" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
        <item name="colorPrimary">#673AB7</item>
        <item name="colorPrimaryDark">#512DA8</item>
        <item name="colorAccent">#FF4081</item>
        <item name="android:windowBackground">@color/window_background</item>
    </style>

Answer 4

In the latest version of the support library (23.0.0+), TextInputLayout takes the following attribute in XML to edit the floating label color: android:textColorHint="@color/white"

Answer 5

To change color of hint and edit text underline color : colorControlActivated

To change character counter color : textColorSecondary

To change error message color : colorControlNormal

To change password visibility button tint : colorForeground

For more info on TextInputLayout read http://www.zoftino.com/android-textinputlayout-tutorial

<style name="MyAppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
    <item name="colorControlActivated">#e91e63</item>
    <item name="android:colorForeground">#33691e</item>
    <item name="colorControlNormal">#f57f17</item>
    <item name="android:textColorSecondary">#673ab7</item>
</style>

Answer 6

Instead of Brahmam Yamani answer I prefer to use Widget.Design.TextInputLayout as parent. That ensures, that all required items are present, even if not all items are overwritten. In Yamanis answer, the app will crash with an unresolvable resource, if setErrorEnabled(true) is called.

Simply change the style to the following:

<style name="TextLabel" parent="Widget.Design.TextInputLayout">
    <!-- 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>