how to change color of TextinputLayout's label

Question

I am using android design library's TextinputLayout. But couldn't customize the hint color, label color and the underline color of EditText inside TextinputLayout. Please help.

Answer 1

If you want to change the bar/line color and the hint text color of the TextInputLayout (what the accent color normally is), then just create this style:

<style name="MyStyle">
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/your_color</item>
</style>

Then apply it to your TextInputLayout as a theme:

<android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout
    ...
    app:theme="@style/MyStyle" />

This basically sets a theme (not style) to one view (as opposed to the whole activity).

Answer 2

<style name="EditScreenTextInputLayoutStyle" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
    <item name="colorControlNormal">@color/actionBar_background</item>
    <item name="colorControlActivated">@color/actionBar_background</item>
    <item name="colorControlHighlight">@color/actionBar_background</item>
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/actionBar_background</item>
    <item name="android:textColorHint">@color/actionBar_background</item>
</style>

apply this style to TextInputLayout

Answer 3

This Blog Post describes various styling aspects of EditText and AutoCompleteTextView wrapped by TextInputLayout.

For EditText and AppCompat lib 22.1.0+ you can set theme attribute with some theme related settings:

<style name="StyledTilEditTextTheme">
   <item name="android:imeOptions">actionNext</item>
   <item name="android:singleLine">true</item>
   <item name="colorControlNormal">@color/greyLight</item>
   <item name="colorControlActivated">@color/blue</item>
   <item name="android:textColorPrimary">@color/blue</item>
   <item name="android:textSize">@dimen/styledtil_edit_text_size</item>
</style>

<style name="StyledTilEditText">
    <item name="android:theme">@style/StyledTilEditTextTheme</item>
    <item name="android:paddingTop">4dp</item>
</style>

and apply them on EditText:

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/etEditText"
    style="@style/StyledTilEditText"

For AutoCompleteTextView things are more complicated because wrapping it in TextInputLayout and applying this theme breaks floating label behaviour. You need to fix this in code:

private void setStyleForTextForAutoComplete(int color) {
    Drawable wrappedDrawable =     DrawableCompat.wrap(autoCompleteTextView.getBackground());
    DrawableCompat.setTint(wrappedDrawable, color);
    autoCompleteTextView.setBackgroundDrawable(wrappedDrawable);
}

and in Activity.onCreate:

setStyleForTextForAutoComplete(getResources().getColor(R.color.greyLight));
autoCompleteTextView.setOnFocusChangeListener((v, hasFocus) -> {
    if(hasFocus) {
        setStyleForTextForAutoComplete(getResources().getColor(R.color.blue));
    } else {
        if(autoCompleteTextView.getText().length() == 0) {  
              setStyleForTextForAutoComplete(getResources().getColor(R.color.greyLight));
        }
    }
});

Answer 4

Based on Fedor Kazakov and others answers, I created a default config.

styles.xml

<resources>

    <!-- Base application theme. -->
    <style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">
        <!-- Customize your theme here. -->
        <item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
        <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
        <item name="colorAccent">@color/colorAccent</item>
    </style>

    <style name="Widget.Design.TextInputLayout" parent="AppTheme">
        <item name="hintTextAppearance">@style/AppTheme.TextFloatLabelAppearance</item>
        <item name="errorTextAppearance">@style/AppTheme.TextErrorAppearance</item>
        <item name="counterTextAppearance">@style/TextAppearance.Design.Counter</item>
        <item name="counterOverflowTextAppearance">@style/TextAppearance.Design.Counter.Overflow</item>
    </style>

    <style name="AppTheme.TextFloatLabelAppearance" parent="TextAppearance.Design.Hint">
        <!-- Floating label appearance here -->
        <item name="android:textColor">@color/colorAccent</item>
        <item name="android:textSize">20sp</item>
    </style>

    <style name="AppTheme.TextErrorAppearance" parent="TextAppearance.Design.Error">
        <!-- Error message appearance here -->
        <item name="android:textColor">#ff0000</item>
        <item name="android:textSize">20sp</item>
    </style>

</resources>

activity_layout.xml

<android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content">

    <android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatEditText
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:hint="Text hint here"
        android:text="5,2" />

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

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Focused:

Without focus:

Error message:

Answer 5

Add this attribute in Edittext tag and enjoy:

 android:backgroundTint="@color/colorWhite"

Answer 6

<style name="Widget.Design.TextInputLayout" parent="android:Widget">
    <item name="hintTextAppearance">@style/TextAppearance.Design.Hint</item>
    <item name="errorTextAppearance">@style/TextAppearance.Design.Error</item>
</style>

You can override this style for layout

And also you can change inner EditText-item style too.