Changing EditText bottom line color with appcompat v7

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I am using appcompat v7 to get the look consistent on Android 5 and less  It works rather well  However I cannot figure out how to change the bottom line color and the accent color for EditTexts  Is it possible    I have tried to define a custom android editTextStyle  cf  below  but I only succeeded to change the full background color or text color but not the bottom line nor the accent color  Is there a specific property value to use  do I have to use a custom drawable image through the android background property  is it not possible to specify a color in hexa     lt style name  Theme App Base  parent  Theme AppCompat Light DarkActionBar  gt        lt item name  android editTextStyle  gt  style Widget App EditText lt  item gt    lt  style gt     lt style name  Widget App EditText  parent  Widget AppCompat EditText  gt             lt  style gt    According to android API 21 sources  EditTexts with material design seem to use colorControlActivated and colorControlNormal  Therefore  I have tried to override these properties in the previous style definition but it has no effect  Probably appcompat does not use it  Unfortunately  I cannot find the sources for the last version of appcompat with material design

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lt  -- Base application theme  -- gt   lt style name  AppTheme  parent  Theme AppCompat Light DarkActionBar  gt       lt  -- Customize your theme here  -- gt       lt item name  colorPrimary  gt  color colorPrimary lt  item gt       lt item name  colorPrimaryDark  gt  color colorPrimaryDark lt  item gt       lt item name  colorAccent  gt  color colorAccent lt  item gt        lt item name  colorControlNormal  gt  color colorAccent lt  item gt       lt item name  colorControlActivated  gt  color colorAccent lt  item gt       lt item name  colorControlHighlight  gt  color colorAccent lt  item gt    lt  style gt

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You can use just backgroundTint for change bottom line color of edit text  android backgroundTint  quot  000000 quot   example     lt EditText           android id  quot   id title1 quot            android layout width  quot match parent quot            android layout height  quot wrap content quot            android backgroundTint  quot  000000 quot    gt

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I too was stuck on this problem for too long     I required a solution that worked for versions both above and below v21   I finally discovered a very simple perhaps not ideal but effective solution  Simply set the background colour to transparent in the EditText properties    lt EditText     android background   android color transparent   gt    I hope this saves someone some time

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Please modify this method according to your need  This worked for me     private boolean validateMobilenumber             if  mobilenumber getText   toString   trim   isEmpty      mobilenumber getText   toString   length    lt  10                input layout mobilenumber setErrorEnabled true               input layout mobilenumber setError getString R string err msg mobilenumber                  requestFocus mobilenumber               return false            else               input layout mobilenumber setError null               input layout mobilenumber setErrorEnabled false               mobilenumber setBackground mobilenumber getBackground   getConstantState   newDrawable

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If you are using appcompat-v7 22 1 0  you can use the DrawableCompat to tint your widgets      public static void tintWidget View view  int color            Drawable wrappedDrawable   DrawableCompat wrap view getBackground             DrawableCompat setTint wrappedDrawable mutate    getResources   getColor color            view setBackgroundDrawable wrappedDrawable

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Here is a part of source code of TextInputLayout in support design library UPDATED for version 23 2 0   which changes EditText s bottom line color in a simpler way   private void updateEditTextBackground         ensureBackgroundDrawableStateWorkaround         final Drawable editTextBackground   mEditText getBackground        if  editTextBackground    null            return             if  mErrorShown  amp  amp  mErrorView    null               Set a color filter of the error color         editTextBackground setColorFilter                  AppCompatDrawableManager getPorterDuffColorFilter                          mErrorView getCurrentTextColor    PorterDuff Mode SRC IN                      It seems that all of above code become useless right now in 23 2 0 if you want to change the color programatically   And if you want to support all platforms  here is my method          Set backgroundTint to   link View  across all targeting platform level      param view the   link View  to tint      param color color used to tint      public static void tintView View view  int color        final Drawable d   view getBackground        final Drawable nd   d getConstantState   newDrawable        nd setColorFilter AppCompatDrawableManager getPorterDuffColorFilter              color  PorterDuff Mode SRC IN        view setBackground nd

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Use    lt EditText     app backgroundTint   color blue   gt    This will support pre-Lollipop devices not only  21

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To change the EditText background dynamically  you can use ColorStateList   int     states   new int           new int     android R attr state enabled      enabled     new int    -android R attr state enabled      disabled     new int    -android R attr state checked      unchecked     new int     android R attr state pressed      pressed     int   colors   new int         Color BLACK      Color RED      Color GREEN      Color BLUE     ColorStateList colorStateList   new ColorStateList states  colors     Credits  This SO answer about ColorStateList is awesome

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It s very easy just add android backgroundTint attribute in your EditText   android backgroundTint   color blue  android backgroundTint   ffffff  android backgroundTint   color red      lt EditText      android layout width  match parent       android layout height  wrap content       android backgroundTint   ffffff   gt

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The accepted answer is a bit more per style basis thing  but the most efficient thing to do is to add the colorAccent attribute in your AppTheme style like this    lt style name  AppTheme Base  parent  Theme AppCompat Light NoActionBar  gt           lt item name  colorAccent  gt  color colorAccent lt  item gt           lt item name  android editTextStyle  gt  style EditTextStyle lt  item gt   lt  style gt    lt style name  EditTextStyle  parent  Widget AppCompat EditText   gt    The colorAccent attribute is used for widget tinting throughout the app and thus should be used for consistency

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One quick solution for your problem is to look in yourappspackage build intermediates exploded-aar com android support appcompat-v7 res drawable  for abc edit text material xml and copy that xml file in your drawable folder  Then you can change the colour of the 9 patch files from inside this selector  in order to match your preferences

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While Laurents solution is correct  it comes with some drawbacks as described in the comments since not only the bottom line of the EditText gets tinted but the Back Button of the Toolbar  CheckBoxes etc  as well   Luckily v22 1 of appcompat-v7 introduced some new possibilities  Now it s possible to assign a specific theme only to one view  Straight from the Changelog      Deprecated use of app theme for styling Toolbar  You can now use android theme for toolbars on all API level 7 and higher devices and android theme support for all widgets on API level 11 and higher devices     So instead of setting the desired color in a global theme  we create a new one and assign it only to the EditText   Example    lt style name  MyEditTextTheme  gt       lt  -- Used for the bottom line when not selected   focused -- gt       lt item name  colorControlNormal  gt  9e9e9e lt  item gt       lt  -- colorControlActivated  amp  colorControlHighlight use the colorAccent color by default -- gt   lt  style gt       lt EditText     android layout width  match parent      android layout height  wrap content      android theme   style MyEditTextTheme   gt

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For me I modified both the AppTheme and a value colors xml Both the colorControlNormal and the colorAccent helped me change the EditText border color  As well as the cursor  and the     when inside an EditText     lt style name  AppTheme  parent  Theme AppCompat Light DarkActionBar  gt       lt  -- Customize your theme here  -- gt       lt item name  colorControlNormal  gt  color yellow lt  item gt       lt item name  colorAccent  gt  color yellow lt  item gt   lt  style gt    Here is the colors xml   lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt   lt resources gt       lt color name  yellow  gt  B7EC2A lt  color gt   lt  resources gt    I took out the android textCursorDrawable attribute to  null that I placed inside the editText style  When I tried using this  the colors would not change

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Add app backgroundTint for below api level 21  Otherwise use android backgroundTint   For below api level 21    lt EditText      android id    id edt name       android layout width  300dp       android layout height  wrap content       android textColor   0012ff       app backgroundTint   0012ff   gt    For higher than api level 21    lt EditText      android id    id edt name       android layout width  300dp       android layout height  wrap content       android textColor   0012ff       android backgroundTint   0012ff   gt

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In Activit XML add the code   lt EditText         android layout width  match parent          android layout height  wrap content          android inputType  textPersonName          android ems  10          android id    id editText          android hint  Informe o usu  rio          android backgroundTint   android color transparent   gt    Where BackgroundTint color for your desired colour

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Finally  I have found a solution  It simply consists of overriding the value for colorControlActivated  colorControlHighlight and colorControlNormal in your app theme definition and not your edittext style  Then  think to use this theme for whatever activity you desire  Below is an example    lt style name  Theme App Base  parent  Theme AppCompat Light DarkActionBar  gt       lt item name  colorControlNormal  gt  c5c5c5 lt  item gt       lt item name  colorControlActivated  gt  color accent lt  item gt       lt item name  colorControlHighlight  gt  color accent lt  item gt   lt  style gt

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If you want change bottom line without using app colors  use these lines in your theme    lt item name  android editTextStyle  gt  android style Widget EditText lt  item gt   lt item name  editTextStyle  gt  android style Widget EditText lt  item gt    I don t know another solution

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I worked out a working solution to this problem after 2 days of struggle  below solution is perfect for them who want to change few edit text only  change toggle color through java code  and want to overcome the problems of different behavior on OS versions due to use setColorFilter   method       import android content Context  import android graphics PorterDuff  import android graphics drawable Drawable  import android support v4 content ContextCompat  import android support v7 widget AppCompatDrawableManager  import android support v7 widget AppCompatEditText  import android util AttributeSet  import com newco cooltv R   public class RqubeErrorEditText extends AppCompatEditText      private int errorUnderlineColor    private boolean isErrorStateEnabled    private boolean mHasReconstructedEditTextBackground     public RqubeErrorEditText Context context        super context       initColors           public RqubeErrorEditText Context context  AttributeSet attrs        super context  attrs       initColors           public RqubeErrorEditText Context context  AttributeSet attrs  int defStyleAttr        super context  attrs  defStyleAttr       initColors           private void initColors         errorUnderlineColor   R color et error color rule          public void setErrorColor         ensureBackgroundDrawableStateWorkaround        getBackground   setColorFilter AppCompatDrawableManager getPorterDuffColorFilter          ContextCompat getColor getContext    errorUnderlineColor   PorterDuff Mode SRC IN           private void ensureBackgroundDrawableStateWorkaround         final Drawable bg   getBackground        if  bg    null          return            if   mHasReconstructedEditTextBackground             This is gross  There is an issue in the platform which affects container Drawables          where the first drawable retrieved from resources will propogate any changes           like color filter  to all instances from the cache  We ll try to workaround it          final Drawable newBg   bg getConstantState   newDrawable            if  bg instanceof DrawableContainer                 If we have a Drawable container  we can try and set it s constant state via              reflection from the new Drawable           mHasReconstructedEditTextBackground                 DrawableUtils setContainerConstantState                     DrawableContainer  bg  newBg getConstantState                     if   mHasReconstructedEditTextBackground               If we reach here then we just need to set a brand new instance of the Drawable            as the background  This has the unfortunate side-effect of wiping out any            user set padding  but I d hope that use of custom padding on an EditText            is limited          setBackgroundDrawable newBg           mHasReconstructedEditTextBackground   true                       public boolean isErrorStateEnabled         return isErrorStateEnabled         public void setErrorState boolean isErrorStateEnabled        this isErrorStateEnabled   isErrorStateEnabled      if  isErrorStateEnabled          setErrorColor          invalidate          else         getBackground   mutate   clearColorFilter          invalidate                  Uses in xml   lt com rqube ui widget RqubeErrorEditText             android id    id f signup et referral code              android layout width  match parent              android layout height  wrap content              android layout alignParentTop  true              android layout toEndOf    id referral iv              android layout toRightOf    id referral iv              android ems  10              android hint   string lbl referral code              android imeOptions  actionNext              android inputType  textEmailAddress              android textSize   dimen text size sp 16              android theme   style EditTextStyle   gt    Add lines in style   lt style name  EditTextStyle  parent  android Widget EditText  gt       lt item name  android textColor  gt  color txt color change lt  item gt       lt item name  android textColorHint  gt  color et default color text lt  item gt       lt item name  colorControlNormal  gt  color et default color rule lt  item gt       lt item name  colorControlActivated  gt  color et engagged color rule lt  item gt     lt  style gt    java code to toggle color  myRqubeEditText setErrorState true   myRqubeEditText setErrorState false

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Here is the solution for API  lt  21 and above  Drawable drawable   yourEditText getBackground       get current EditText drawable  drawable setColorFilter Color GREEN  PorterDuff Mode SRC ATOP      change the drawable color  if Build VERSION SDK INT  gt  16        yourEditText setBackground drawable      set the new drawable to EditText  else      yourEditText setBackgroundDrawable drawable      use setBackgroundDrawable because setBackground required API 16       Hope it help

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I was absolutely baffled by this problem  I had tried everything in this thread  and in others  but no matter what I did I could not change the color of the underline to anything other than the default blue   I finally figured out what was going on  I was  incorrectly  using android widget EditText when making a new instance  but the rest of my components were from the appcompat library   I should have used android support v7 widget AppCompatEditText  I replaced new EditText this  with new AppCompatEditText this   and the problem was instantly solved  It turns out  if you are actually using AppCompatEditText  it will just respect the accentColor from your theme  as mentioned in several comments above  and no additional configuration is necessary

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This is the easiest and most efficient reusable works on all APIs Create a custom EditText class like so   public class EditText extends android widget EditText       public EditText Context context            super context           init               public EditText Context context  AttributeSet attrs            super context  attrs           init               public EditText Context context  AttributeSet attrs  int defStyleAttr            super context  attrs  defStyleAttr           init               private void init             getBackground   mutate   setColorFilter ContextCompat getColor getContext    R color colorAccent   PorterDuff Mode SRC ATOP             Then use it like this     lt company com app EditText         android layout width  200dp          android layout height  wrap content   gt

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You can set background of edittext to a rectangle with minus padding on left  right and top to achieve this  Here is the xml example    lt layer-list xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android  gt       lt item         android top  -1dp          android left  -1dp          android right  -1dp          android bottom  1dp           gt           lt shape android shape  rectangle  gt               lt stroke android width  1dp  android color   6A9A3A   gt           lt  shape gt       lt  item gt   lt  layer-list gt    Replace the shape with a selector if you want to provide different  width and color for focused edittext

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I felt like this needed an answer in case somebody wanted to change just a single edittext  I do it like this   editText getBackground   mutate   setColorFilter ContextCompat getColor context  R color your color   PorterDuff Mode SRC ATOP

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I use this method to change the color of the line with PorterDuff  with no other drawable   public void changeBottomColorSearchView int color        int searchPlateId   mSearchView getContext   getResources   getIdentifier  android id search plate   null  null       View searchPlate   mSearchView findViewById searchPlateId       searchPlate getBackground   setColorFilter color  PorterDuff Mode SRC IN

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This can be changed in XML by using   For Reference API    21 compatibility use   android backgroundTint   color blue    For backward API  lt  21 compatibility use   app backgroundTint   color blue

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