How can I change the color of arrows that appear when I am editing text

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I want to change the color of arrows that appear when I am editing text in EditText , I don't know the name of these arrows, How can I do that ?

Here's an approach: [Android: Change color / appearance of EditText Select Handle / Anchor](http://stackoverflow.com/a/15133928/2558882). — Vikram, Jul 18 '13 at 11:13

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 05 '14 at 00:52

You can accomplish this by using a custom theme and setting the following:

<item name="android:textSelectHandle">@drawable/text_select_handle_middle</item>
<item name="android:textSelectHandleLeft">@drawable/text_select_handle_left</item>
<item name="android:textSelectHandleRight">@drawable/text_select_handle_right</item>

Or, you can use reflection:

try {
    final Field fEditor = TextView.class.getDeclaredField("mEditor");
    fEditor.setAccessible(true);
    final Object editor = fEditor.get(editText);

    final Field fSelectHandleLeft = editor.getClass().getDeclaredField("mSelectHandleLeft");
    final Field fSelectHandleRight =
        editor.getClass().getDeclaredField("mSelectHandleRight");
    final Field fSelectHandleCenter =
        editor.getClass().getDeclaredField("mSelectHandleCenter");

    fSelectHandleLeft.setAccessible(true);
    fSelectHandleRight.setAccessible(true);
    fSelectHandleCenter.setAccessible(true);

    final Resources res = context.getResources();

    fSelectHandleLeft.set(editor, res.getDrawable(R.drawable.text_select_handle_left));
    fSelectHandleRight.set(editor, res.getDrawable(R.drawable.text_select_handle_right));
    fSelectHandleCenter.set(editor, res.getDrawable(R.drawable.text_select_handle_middle));
} catch (final Exception ignored) {
}

g00dy · Answer 2 · 2013-07-18T11:37:38.177

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I don't think you can change that without changing the keyboard layout, which will have to be done separately and here are some tutorials on how to do it:

EDIT:

For the hint color, you can also set a red color for example, see if this does the trick:

android:textColorHint="#FF0000"

edited Jul 18 '13 at 11:37

answered Jul 18 '13 at 10:59

g00dy

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I think it should be more simple ! I just need to change a color – Mohammed Subhi Sheikh Quroush Jul 18 '13 at 11:06
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Unfortunatelly I didn't find anything regarding this problem, but I'm not a criteria for this, so good luck at finding the solution! Please poste the answer here if you find one ok ? – g00dy Jul 18 '13 at 11:08
I've made an EDIT, check it out .. :) – g00dy Jul 18 '13 at 11:37

How can I change the color of arrows that appear when I am editing text

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