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

In my case I added this "app:hintTextAppearance="@color/colorPrimaryDark"in my TextInputLayout widget.

Answer 2

I suggest you make style theme for TextInputLayout and change only accent color. Set parent to your app base theme:

 <style name="MyTextInputLayout" parent="MyAppThemeBase">
     <item name="colorAccent">@color/colorPrimary</item>
 </style>

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

Answer 3

Now, simply using colorAccent and colorPrimary will work perfectly.

Answer 4

I tried using android:textColorHint in the android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout it works fine.

        <android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:textColorHint="@color/colorAccent">

            <EditText
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:hint="Hello"
                android:imeActionLabel="Hello"
                android:imeOptions="actionUnspecified"
                android:maxLines="1"
                android:singleLine="true"/>

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

Answer 5

Ok, so, I found this answer very helpful and thanks to all the people who contributed. Just to add something, though. The accepted answer is indeed the correct answer...BUT...in my case, I was looking to implement the error message below the EditText widget with app:errorEnabled="true" and this single line made my life difficult. it seems that this overrides the theme I chose for android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout, which has a different text color defined by android:textColorPrimary.

In the end I took to applying a text color directly to the EditText widget. My code looks something like this:

styles.xml

<item name="colorPrimary">@color/my_yellow</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/my_yellow_dark</item>
<item name="colorAccent">@color/my_yellow_dark</item>
<item name="android:textColorPrimary">@android:color/white</item>
<item name="android:textColorSecondary">@color/dark_gray</item>
<item name="android:windowBackground">@color/light_gray</item>
<item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
<item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
<item name="android:textColorHint">@color/dark_gray</item>
<item name="android:colorControlNormal">@android:color/black</item>
<item name="android:colorControlActivated">@android:color/white</item>

And my widget:

<android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout
        android:id="@+id/log_in_layout_name"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        app:errorEnabled="true">

        <EditText
            android:id="@+id/log_in_name"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
            android:textColor="@android:color/black"
            android:ems="10"
            android:hint="@string/log_in_name"
            android:inputType="textPersonName" />
</android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout>

Now it displays black text color instead of the textColorPrimary white.