Change color of EditText android

Question

I have an EditText on Dark background. My EditTexts are of black color only(if not focused), so not visible properly. How can I change the color? Below is the screenshot.

design one image file like this and set it as bottomdrawable for textview — karan, Nov 09 '15 at 12:42

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:45

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Your question is about the Android theme stuff.Maybe you should set your theme's colorControlNormal value.Just like below:

<style name="Theme.App.Base" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
    <item name="colorControlNormal">#YOUR COLOR HEER</item>
</style>

reference here.

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answered Nov 09 '15 at 12:54

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Parth Bhayani · Answer 2 · 2015-11-09T12:52:18.750

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Try this,

 editText.getBackground().setColorFilter(getResources().getColor(R.color.white), PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_ATOP);

edited Nov 09 '15 at 12:52

answered Nov 09 '15 at 12:47

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Nope, full rectangle is getting white – Prakhar Nov 09 '15 at 12:49
so, you need to change the color of a line? Am I right? – Parth Bhayani Nov 09 '15 at 12:49

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 09 '15 at 12:57

Are you using the AppCompat library? If yes you can override the style attributes colorControlNormal, colorControlActivated and colorControlHighlight.

For example:

<style name="Theme.App.Base" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
    <item name="colorControlNormal">@color/your_color_1</item>
    <item name="colorControlActivated">@color/your_color_2</item>
    <item name="colorControlHighlight">@color/your_color_3</item>
</style>

Shubhank Gupta · Answer 4 · 2015-11-09T13:06:03.710

Try this might be help you

      <EditText
            android:textColorHint="@android:color/white"
            android:id="@+id/username"
            style="@style/EditUnderBar"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:background="@android:color/transparent"
            android:hint="@string/hint_email" />

Add this at your style.xml

 <style name="EditUnderBar" parent="android:Widget.Holo.Light.TextView">
    <item name="android:drawableBottom">@drawable/under_bar</item>
    <item name="android:drawablePadding">3dp</item>
    <item name="android:layout_marginTop">12dp</item>
    <item name="android:paddingLeft">4dp</item>
    <item name="android:textColor">@color/white</item>
    <item name="android:textSize">16sp</item>
</style>

Add this your drawable

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <shape
   xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
   android:shape="rectangle">
  <size android:width="1000dp" android:height="1dp" />
  <solid
     android:color="@color/white"/>
  </shape>

If it not work then add this also

  <!-- Base application theme. -->
    <style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
    <!-- Customize your theme here. -->

    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
    <item name="android:textColorPrimary">@color/textColorPrimary</item>
    <item name="colorControlNormal">@color/iron</item>
    <item name="colorControlActivated">@color/white</item>
    <item name="colorControlHighlight">@color/white</item>
    <item name="android:textColorHint">@color/white</item>
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/accent</item>
    <item name="android:windowBackground">@color/white</item>
</style>

its work for me

Its might be help you.Good Luck

score 0 · Answer 5 · edited Jun 20 '21 at 02:25

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Or try:

android:backgroundTint:”@color/colorWhite”

edited Jun 20 '21 at 02:25

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answered Aug 10 '18 at 13:04

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Jan 30 '21 at 20:22

The easiest way to change line color in edittext is to write this in your xml file:

API >= 21:

<EditText
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:backgroundTint="YOUR COLOR" />

API < 21:

<EditText
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        app:backgroundTint="YOUR COLOR" />

Change color of EditText android

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