I am facing with problem. I am trying to make edit texts in my app look the same with the help of theme.
I have generated styles with the help of online tools (9-patch images) and tried to set it in my theme like this
<!-- Base application theme. -->
<style name="DefaultAppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat">
<!-- Main theme colors -->
<!-- your app branding color for the app bar -->
<item name="colorPrimary">@color/blue</item>
<!-- darker variant for the status bar and contextual app bars -->
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/darkblue</item>
<!-- theme UI controls like checkboxes and text fields -->
<item name="colorAccent">@color/cornflowerblue</item>
<item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
<item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
<item name="android:editTextStyle">@style/EditTextDefault</item>
</style>
My style for edit text
<style name="EditTextDefault" parent="android:Widget.EditText">
<item name="android:background">@drawable/edit_text_holo_light</item>
<item name="android:textColor">@color/light_blue</item>
<item name="android:layout_marginLeft">@dimen/margin_edit_text_default</item>
<item name="android:layout_marginRight">@dimen/margin_edit_text_default</item>
<item name="android:layout_marginTop">@dimen/margin_edit_text_default</item>
</style>
But this doesn't work if use edit text without specifying style manually for each edit text.
This doesn't work
<EditText
android:id="@+id/edit_text_login"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_above="@+id/edit_text_password"
android:hint="@string/hint_enter_login"
android:inputType="textEmailAddress" />
This works
<EditText
android:id="@+id/edit_text_login"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_above="@+id/edit_text_password"
style="@style/EditTextDefault"
android:hint="@string/hint_enter_login"
android:inputType="textEmailAddress" />
I know that layout_* params will not affect if they are used in theme, but other attributes should work.
Please help with this problem.
instead of this..
<item name="android:editTextStyle">@style/EditTextDefault</item>
use this..
<item name="editTextStyle">@style/EditTextDefault</item>