I am having this issue where I am using the Android's Holo theme on a tablet project. However, I have a fragment on screen which has a white background. I am adding an EditText component on this fragment. I've tried to override the theme by setting the background of the Holo.Light theme resources. However, my text cursor (carat) remains white and hence, invisible on screen (I can spot it faintly in the edittext field..).
Does anyone know how I can get EditText to use a darker cursor color? I've tried setting the style of the EditText to "#android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.EditText" with no positive result.
Setting the android:textCursorDrawable attribute to #null should result in the use of android:textColor as the cursor color.
Attribute "textCursorDrawable" is available in API level 12 and higher
In Layout
<EditText
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textCursorDrawable="#drawable/color_cursor"
/>
Then create drawalble xml: color_cursor
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<size android:width="3dp" />
<solid android:color="#FFFFFF" />
</shape>
You have a white color cursor on EditText property.
It appears as if all the answers go around the bushes.
In your EditText, use the property:
android:textCursorDrawable="#drawable/black_cursor"
and add the drawable black_cursor.xml to your resources, as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:shape="rectangle" >
<size android:width="1dp" />
<solid android:color="#000000"/>
</shape>
This is also the way to create more diverse cursors, if you need.
There is a new way to change cursor color in latest Appcompact v21
Just change colorAccent in style like this:
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
<!-- Set theme colors from http://www.google.com/design/spec/style/color.html#color-color-palette-->
<!-- colorPrimary is used for the default action bar background -->
<item name="colorPrimary">#088FC9</item>
<!-- colorPrimaryDark is used for the status bar -->
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#088FC9</item>
<!-- colorAccent is used as the default value for colorControlActivated
which is used to tint widgets -->
<!-- THIS IS WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR -->
<item name="colorAccent">#0091BC</item>
</style>
Then apply this style on your app theme or activities.
Update: this way only works on API 21+
Update 2: I'm not sure the minimum android version that it can work. Tested by android version:
2.3.7 - didn't work
4.4.4 - worked
5.0 - worked
5.1 - worked
I found the answer :)
I've set the Theme's editText style to:
<item name="android:editTextStyle">#style/myEditText</item>
Then I've used the following drawable to set the cursor:
`
<style name="myEditText" parent="#android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.EditText">
<item name="android:background">#android:drawable/editbox_background_normal</item>
<item name="android:textCursorDrawable">#android:drawable/my_cursor_drawable</item>
<item name="android:height">40sp</item>
</style>
`
android:textCursorDrawable is the key here.
For anyone that needs to set the EditText cursor color dynamically, below you will find two ways to achieve this.
First, create your cursor drawable:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:shape="rectangle" >
<solid android:color="#ff000000" />
<size android:width="1dp" />
</shape>
Set the cursor drawable resource id to the drawable you created (https://github.com/android/platform_frameworks_base/blob/kitkat-release/core/java/android/widget/TextView.java#L562-564">source)):
try {
Field f = TextView.class.getDeclaredField("mCursorDrawableRes");
f.setAccessible(true);
f.set(yourEditText, R.drawable.cursor);
} catch (Exception ignored) {
}
To just change the color of the default cursor drawable, you can use the following method:
public static void setCursorDrawableColor(EditText editText, int color) {
try {
Field fCursorDrawableRes =
TextView.class.getDeclaredField("mCursorDrawableRes");
fCursorDrawableRes.setAccessible(true);
int mCursorDrawableRes = fCursorDrawableRes.getInt(editText);
Field fEditor = TextView.class.getDeclaredField("mEditor");
fEditor.setAccessible(true);
Object editor = fEditor.get(editText);
Class<?> clazz = editor.getClass();
Field fCursorDrawable = clazz.getDeclaredField("mCursorDrawable");
fCursorDrawable.setAccessible(true);
Drawable[] drawables = new Drawable[2];
Resources res = editText.getContext().getResources();
drawables[0] = res.getDrawable(mCursorDrawableRes);
drawables[1] = res.getDrawable(mCursorDrawableRes);
drawables[0].setColorFilter(color, PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_IN);
drawables[1].setColorFilter(color, PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_IN);
fCursorDrawable.set(editor, drawables);
} catch (final Throwable ignored) {
}
}
Late to the party,Here's is my answer,
This is for the people who are not looking to change the colorAccent in their parent theme,but wants to change EditText attributes!
This answer demos how to change ......
Bottom line color
Cursor color
Cursor pointer color (I used my custom image).......... of EditText using style applied to the Activity theme.
<android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatEditText
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Hey" />
Example:
<style name="AppTheme.EditText" parent="#style/Widget.AppCompat.EditText">
<item name="android:textColor">#color/white</item>
<item name="android:textColorHint">#8AFFFFFF</item>
<item name="android:background">#drawable/edit_text_background</item> // background (bottom line at this case)
<item name="android:textCursorDrawable">#color/white</item> // Cursor
<item name="android:textSelectHandle">#drawable/my_white_icon</item> // For pointer normal state and copy text state
<item name="android:textSelectHandleLeft">#drawable/my_white_icon</item>
<item name="android:textSelectHandleRight">#drawable/my_white_icon</item>
</style>
Now create a drawable(edit_text_background) add a resource xml for the background!You can customize as you want!
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item
android:bottom="0dp"
android:left="-3dp"
android:right="-3dp"
android:top="-3dp">
<shape android:shape="rectangle">
<stroke
android:width="1dp"
android:color="#color/white"/>
</shape>
</item>
</layer-list>
Now as you did set this style in your Activity theme.
Example :
In your Activity you have a theme,set this custom editText theme to that.
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
<!-- Your Theme data -->
<item name="editTextStyle">#style/AppTheme.EditText</item> // inculude this
</style>
Edittext cursor color you want changes your color.
<EditText
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textCursorDrawable="#drawable/color_cursor"
/>
Then create drawalble xml: color_cursor
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<size android:width="3dp" />
<solid android:color="#FFFFFF" />
</shape>
Wow I am real late to this party but it has had activity 17 days ago
It would seam we need to consider posting what version of Android we are using for an answer so as of now this answer works with Android 2.1 and above
Go to RES/VALUES/STYLES and add the lines of code below and your cursor will be black
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.NoActionBar">
<!--<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">-->
<!-- Customize your theme here. -->
<item name="colorControlActivated">#color/color_Black</item>
<!--Sets COLOR for the Cursor in EditText -->
</style>
You will need a this line of code in your RES/COLOR folder
<color name="color_Black">#000000</color>
Why post this late ? It might be nice to consider some form of categories for the many headed monster Android has become!
For me I modified both the AppTheme and a value colors.xml
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
<!-- Customize your theme here. -->
<item name="colorControlNormal">#color/yellow</item>
<item name="colorAccent">#color/yellow</item>
</style>
Here is the colors.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<color name="yellow">#B7EC2A</color>
</resources>
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.
Use this
android:textCursorDrawable="#color/white"
<resources>
<!-- Base application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">
<!-- Customize your theme here. -->
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/colorPrimary</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#color/colorPrimary</item>
<item name="colorAccent">#color/colorAccent</item> -- change this one
</style>
Go to styles.xml and change the color accent and this will influence the cursor from the edittext box
The only valid answer should be to change the theme of the activity:
<item name="colorAccent">#000000</item>
You should not use the android:textCursorDrawable to #null because this only concerns the cursor itself but not the pin below the cursor if you want to drag that cursor. The theming solution is the most serious one.
Here #Jared Rummler's programatic setCursorDrawableColor() version adapted to work also on Android 9 Pie.
#SuppressWarnings({"JavaReflectionMemberAccess", "deprecation"})
public static void setCursorDrawableColor(EditText editText, int color) {
try {
Field cursorDrawableResField = TextView.class.getDeclaredField("mCursorDrawableRes");
cursorDrawableResField.setAccessible(true);
int cursorDrawableRes = cursorDrawableResField.getInt(editText);
Field editorField = TextView.class.getDeclaredField("mEditor");
editorField.setAccessible(true);
Object editor = editorField.get(editText);
Class<?> clazz = editor.getClass();
Resources res = editText.getContext().getResources();
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.P) {
Field drawableForCursorField = clazz.getDeclaredField("mDrawableForCursor");
drawableForCursorField.setAccessible(true);
Drawable drawable = res.getDrawable(cursorDrawableRes);
drawable.setColorFilter(color, PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_IN);
drawableForCursorField.set(editor, drawable);
} else {
Field cursorDrawableField = clazz.getDeclaredField("mCursorDrawable");
cursorDrawableField.setAccessible(true);
Drawable[] drawables = new Drawable[2];
drawables[0] = res.getDrawable(cursorDrawableRes);
drawables[1] = res.getDrawable(cursorDrawableRes);
drawables[0].setColorFilter(color, PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_IN);
drawables[1].setColorFilter(color, PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_IN);
cursorDrawableField.set(editor, drawables);
}
} catch (Throwable t) {
Log.w(TAG, t);
}
}
We can do it in meterial theme as following:
<style name="Theme.App" parent="Theme.MaterialComponents.DayNight.NoActionBar">
...
<item name="android:colorControlNormal">#ff0000</item>
<item name="android:colorControlActivated">#ff0000</item>
<item name="android:colorControlHighlight">#ff0000</item>
...
</style>
And if you want to change checkbox and radio colors too, add the following line:
<item name="colorAccent">#ff0000</item>
I've tested in Android API 21+
that's called colorAccent in Android.
go to res -> values -> styles.xml add
<item name="colorAccent">#FFFFFF</item>
if not exists.
editcolor.xml
android:textCursorDrawable="#drawable/editcolor"
In xml file set color code of edittext background color
After a lot of time spent trying all these technique in a Dialog, I finally had this idea : attach the theme to the Dialog itself and not to the TextInputLayout.
<style name="AppTheme_Dialog" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Dialog">
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/colorPrimary</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#color/colorWhite</item>
<item name="colorAccent">#color/colorPrimary</item>
</style>
inside onCreate :
public class myDialog extends Dialog {
private Activity activity;
private someVars;
public PopupFeedBack(Activity activity){
super(activity, R.style.AppTheme_Dialog);
setContentView(R.layout.myView);
....}}
cheers :)
Pay attention to your colorAccent in your current Activity/fragment/Dialog, defined in Styles... ;)
cursor color is related to it.
Another simple solution would be to go to res>values>colors.xml in your project folder and edit the value of the color accent to the color you prefer
<color name="colorAccent">#000000</color>
The code above changes your cursor to black.
Its even easier than that.
<style name="MyTextStyle">
<item name="android:textCursorDrawable">#000000</item>
</style>
This works in ICS and beyond. I haven't tested it in other versions.
are you want specific color you must use AppCompatEditText then backround set null
works for me
<android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatEditText
android:background="#null"
android:textCursorDrawable="#color/cursorColor"/>
See this gist
In API 21 and above:
<com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout
style="#style/Widget.MaterialComponents.TextInputLayout.OutlinedBox"
android:theme="#style/CursorColor">
// In colors.xml
<style name="CursorColor">
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/black</item>
</style>>
<!-- Base application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
<!-- Customize your theme here. -->
<item name="colorPrimary">#36f0ff</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#007781</item>
<item name="colorAccent">#000</item>
</style>
<style name="AppTheme.NoActionBar">
<item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
<item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
</style>
<style name="AppTheme.AppBarOverlay" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar" />
<style name="AppTheme.PopupOverlay" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light" />
change t he color of colorAccent in styles.xm, that's it simple
If using style and implement
colorControlActivate
replace its value other that color/white.
you can use code below in layout
android:textCursorDrawable="#color/red"
android:textColor="#color/black
<style name="CustomTheme" parent="AppTheme">
<item name="colorAccent">#color/yourColor</item>
</style>
Add this in styles and then in the Edittext set the theme as follows:
android:theme="#style/CustomTheme"
And thats it!
I want to make grey my seekbar when I disable it.
I know I can programmatically make this changes by changing color but I'd like to know if it is possible to do this directly in my xml activity layout.
In fact in my code I'd like to just write this:
mySeekBarNuance.setEnabled(true);
And automatically my seekbar becomes grey.
Thanks
Do it like this
In your styles.xml
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.DayNight.DarkActionBar"> // or the themw you are using
...
...
<item name="android:seekBarStyle">#style/MySeekBarStyle</item>
</style>
Add also a new style
<style name="MySeekBarStyle" parent="android:Widget.SeekBar">
<item name="android:colorControlNormal">#color/gray</item> // put here the color for disable state
</style>
controlColorNormal is used for disabled state and colorAccent for enabled state
You can use a selector as background for the Seekbar
A selector set what you want if condition are met (here : android:state_enabled="true")
In your activity/fragment layout you put the seekbar with a background that is a selector :
<SeekBar
android:id="#+id/seekbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#drawable/selector_seekbar"/>
You make the selector in your drawable folder :
selector_seekbar.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_enabled="false"
android:drawable="#android:color/darker_gray" />
<item android:state_enabled="true"
android:drawable="#android:color/holo_green_dark" />
</selector>
If enabled, the seekbar will be holo green, otherwise it will be gray
You can do the same thing if the seekbar is focused, pressed etc thaht way.
And you can not only set the color but an entire drawable instead
I have defined a relativeLayout with a recyclerView and an imageView. I want the imageView to draw behind the status bar. But for some reason
android:fitsSystemWindow = true
doesn't work.
How can I achieve it?
Set your full-screen theme like following
<style name="Theme.MyApp.FullScreen" parent="Theme.MyApp">
<item name="android:statusBarColor" tools:targetApi="lollipop">#android:color/transparent</item>
<item name="android:windowTranslucentStatus">false</item>
<item name="android:windowTranslucentNavigation">true</item>
<item name="android:windowLightStatusBar" tools:targetApi="m">true</item>
<item name="android:windowDrawsSystemBarBackgrounds" tools:targetApi="lollipop">true</item>
</style>
Don't add android:fitsSystemWindows="true" in your layout file
Also, no need to add android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan" in Manifest file
To draw behind status bar, You have to set your status bar have transparent background.
So, you need to set this with adding below proprieties in your theme:
<item name="android:windowTranslucentStatus">true</item>
<item name="android:windowTranslucentNavigation">true</item>
And in your .xml you have already set below property which is useful:
android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
I am trying to change all of my activities' background color from white to black. I have tried everything - changing windowBackground, colorBackground, background but nothing seems to be working and I know my style is working because if I changed primary, accent colors they seem to be changing. The background tag only changes the action bar's color. Here's my code for the theme (what I have so far) -
<style name="Yoyo" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/colorPrimary</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
<item name="colorAccent">#color/colorAccent1</item>
<item name="android:windowBackground">#color/darkBackground</item>
<item name="android:colorBackground">#color/darkBackground</item>
<item name="android:textColor">#ffffff</item>
</style>
darkBackground is black - what I need for my app to show but its not showing.
Also, I have already tried using #drawable/my_drawable_file (in which I set black color) in windowBackground but even that doesn't work.
min sdk version - 21, target sdk version - 25
Try to change background your activity root element. For example:
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="your_color">
Try:
<color name="custom_theme_color">#000000</color>
<style name="CustomTheme"Parent="android:Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
<item name="android:windowBackground">#color/custom_theme_color</item>
<item name="android:colorBackground">#color/custom_theme_color</item>
</style>
and then use the custom theme in your manifest
Nevermind people, I was just being stupid, I had hard-coded the colour for the said activity in the XML file, as soon as I removed the line which was setting the colour from XML the windowBackground started working!
So I'm programmatically creating new buttons and adding them to a LinearLayout, however I want to initialize these buttons with a predefined style. I've spent some time searching for a solution and trying out answers, but I still can't seem to get it to work.
When I add a new button to the layout, it should look like the buttons (near the top) in this picture.
I've tried creating an xml file in res/values/ and initializing a button with new Button(context, null, R.style.ChoiceButton), but it doesn't work resulting in this happening.
I've also tried the workaround of creating a new layout xml for the button and using (Button)getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.choice_buttton_layout, null), but that also didn't work, resulting in this (two buttons to show lack of margin).
res/values/choice_button.xml
<resources>
<style name="ChoiceButton">
<item name="android:layout_width">wrap_content</item>
<item name="android:layout_height">wrap_content</item>
<item name="android:layout_gravity">center_horizontal</item>
<item name="android:layout_marginBottom">7dp</item>
<item name="android:minWidth">250dp</item>
<item name="android:background">#ff27ae60</item>
<item name="android:textColor">#ffffffff</item>
<item name="android:enabled">true</item>
</style>
</resources>
Snippet from Main.java
public void btnAdd_click(View view) {
Button newBtn = new Button(getApplicationContext(), null, R.style.ChoiceButton);
newBtn.setText("new button");
newBtn.setId(Util.generateViewId());
LinearLayout layout = (LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.layoutTop);
layout.addView(newBtn);
}
activity_main.xml
A bit long to paste in here.
Is there just something I'm missing? Is this even possible?
Ok #kin3tik, I found an old application I made with some custom button.. see what it looks like :
there is my xml for one button :
<Button
android:id="#+id/num1"
android:layout_width="110dp"
android:layout_height="100dp"
android:layout_marginRight="5dp"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="#string/num1"
android:textSize="20sp" />
I created file .xml in my drawable folder custombutton.xml:
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<solid android:color="#color/bleuperso"/> // you can put #XXXXXX for the color you want
<corners android:radius="4dp"/>
And I just put the style in java :
Bfrancois.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.custombutton);
With this you should be able to find yourself ;)