I want to change the text color of my TextInputEditText hint. It seems that no matter what I change, the color is always that of the primary app theme.
<android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout
android:id="@+id/enter_template_name_edit_text_input_layout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textColorHint="@color/warm_grey">
<android.support.design.widget.TextInputEditText
android:id="@+id/template_name_text_input_edit_text"
style="@style/EditTextBaseStyle"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="start"
android:hint="@string/add_nitrogen_template_name_label"
android:imeOptions="actionNext"
android:inputType="textCapWords|textNoSuggestions"
android:maxLines="1"
android:paddingBottom="@dimen/md_content_padding_bottom"
android:textAlignment="textStart"
android:textColorHint="@color/warm_grey"
android:textSize="32sp" />
And the base style
<style name="EditTextBaseStyle" parent="Widget.AppCompat.EditText">
<item name="android:textViewStyle">@style/TextViewStyle</item>
<item name="android:textColor">@color/middle_black</item>
<item name="android:textStyle">normal</item>
<item name="android:textSize">16sp</item>
</style>
I have tried adding
android:textColorHint="@color/warm_grey"
To the base style as well as my AppTheme and that did not help.
Here is my AppTheme
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat">
<item name="colorPrimary">@color/primary</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/primary_dark</item>
<item name="colorAccent">@color/primary</item>
<item name="android:textColorHint">@color/primary_text</item>
<item name="android:windowBackground">@null</item>
<item name="android:windowSoftInputMode">stateHidden|adjustPan</item>
</style>
Anything I'm missing here?
Thanks, Otterman
Edit: The Hint is the correct color when field does not have focus. When field receives focus, hint moves above the field and displays incorrect color.
The fix for me was to set the hint and the textColor on TextInputLayout, rather than on TextInputEditText as described here: https://material.io/develop/android/components/text-input-layout/
<android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout
android:id="@+id/passwordTextInputLayout"
android:hint="@string/add_nitrogen_template_name_label"
android:textColorHint="@color/warm_grey">
<android.support.design.widget.TextInputEditText
android:textAppearance="@style/TextAppearance.Regular"
android:textColor="@color/white"/>
</android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout>