setHintTextColor in EditText

Question

I have View in which there are two text boxes  and the user can select text color from another view on the same screen  through dialog box    So when the user changes color via dialog box  I am changing color of EditText text and its hint  But when there is some text is available in EditText after that user selects other color  then that text is coming in that color  But if I remove all that text then the color of HintText is that of the previous color   For example  currently if I have red color in text box and the user selects green color so text is there in green color  But if I remove that text then hint text are coming in red even if I change hint color in code  This problem only comes when there is some text there  if it is blank and hint  text is there then problem is not coming

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You could call editText invalidate   after you reset the hint color  That could resolve your issue  Actually the SDK update the color in the same way

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Default Colors   android textColorHint   android color holo blue dark    For Color code   android textColorHint   33b5e5

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Use this to change the hint color  -  editText setHintTextColor getResources   getColor R color white      Solution for your problem -  editText addTextChangedListener new TextWatcher          Override     public void onTextChanged CharSequence arg0  int arg1  int arg2 int arg3             do something             Override     public void beforeTextChanged CharSequence arg0  int arg1  int arg2  int arg3              do something             Override     public void afterTextChanged Editable arg0            if arg0 toString   length    lt   0    check if length is equal to zero             tv setHintTextColor getResources   getColor R color white

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Inside Layout Xml File We can Change Color of Hint       android textColorHint   android color          you can replace   with color or color code

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This is like default hint color  worked for me   editText setHintTextColor Color GRAY

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Simply add this in your layout for the EditText       android textColorHint   FFFFFF

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Programmatically in Java - At least API v14   exampleEditText setHintTextColor getResources   getColor R color your color

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Seems that EditText apply the hintTextColor only if the text is empty  So simple solution will be like this  Editable text   mEditText getText    mEditText setText null   mEditText setHintTextColor color   mEditText setText text     If you have multiple fields  you can extend the EditText and write a method which executes this logic and use that method instead

[android] setHintTextColor() in EditText

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