How to change the floating label color of TextInputLayout

With reference to the new TextInputLayout released by Google, how do I change the floating label text color?

Setting colorControlNormal, colorControlActivated, colorControlHighLight in styles does not help.

This is what I have now:

Try The Below Code It Works In Normal State

 <android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout
     android:layout_width="match_parent"
     android:layout_height="wrap_content"
     android:theme="@style/TextLabel">

     <android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatEditText
         android:layout_width="match_parent"
         android:layout_height="wrap_content"
         android:hint="Hiiiii"
         android:id="@+id/edit_id"/>

 </android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout>

In Styles Folder TextLabel Code

 <style name="TextLabel" parent="TextAppearance.AppCompat">
    <!-- Hint color and label color in FALSE state -->
    <item name="android:textColorHint">@color/Color Name</item> 
    <item name="android:textSize">20sp</item>
    <!-- Label color in TRUE state and bar color FALSE and TRUE State -->
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/Color Name</item>
    <item name="colorControlNormal">@color/Color Name</item>
    <item name="colorControlActivated">@color/Color Name</item>
 </style>

Set To Main Theme of App,It Works Only Highlight State Only

 <item name="colorAccent">@color/Color Name</item>

Update:
> UnsupportedOperationException: Can't convert to color: type=0x2 in api 16 or below

Solution

Update:

Are you using Material Components Library

You can add below lines to your main theme

 <item name="colorPrimary">@color/your_color</item> // Activated State
 <item name="colorOnSurface">@color/your_color</item> // Normal State

or else do you want different colors in noraml state and activated state and with customization follow below code

<style name="Widget.App.TextInputLayout" parent="Widget.MaterialComponents.TextInputLayout.OutlinedBox">
    <item name="materialThemeOverlay">@style/ThemeOverlay.App.TextInputLayout</item>
    <item name="shapeAppearance">@style/ShapeAppearance.App.SmallComponent</item> //Changes the Shape Apperance
    <!--<item name="hintTextColor">?attr/colorOnSurface</item>-->   //When you added this line it will applies only one color in normal and activate state i.e colorOnSurface color
</style>

<style name="ThemeOverlay.App.TextInputLayout" parent="">
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>  //Activated color
    <item name="colorOnSurface">@color/colorPrimary</item>    //Normal color
    <item name="colorError">@color/colorPrimary</item>        //Error color

    //Text Appearance styles
    <item name="textAppearanceSubtitle1">@style/TextAppearance.App.Subtitle1</item>
    <item name="textAppearanceCaption">@style/TextAppearance.App.Caption</item>

    <!--Note: When setting a materialThemeOverlay on a custom TextInputLayout style, don’t forget to set editTextStyle to either a @style/Widget.MaterialComponents.TextInputEditText.* style or to a custom one that inherits from that.
    The TextInputLayout styles set materialThemeOverlay that overrides editTextStyle with the specific TextInputEditText style needed. Therefore, you don’t need to specify a style tag on the edit text.-->
    <item name="editTextStyle">@style/Widget.MaterialComponents.TextInputEditText.OutlinedBox</item>
</style>

<style name="TextAppearance.App.Subtitle1" parent="TextAppearance.MaterialComponents.Subtitle1">
    <item name="fontFamily">@font/your_font</item>
    <item name="android:fontFamily">@font/your_font</item>
</style>

<style name="TextAppearance.App.Caption" parent="TextAppearance.MaterialComponents.Caption">
    <item name="fontFamily">@font/your_font</item>
    <item name="android:fontFamily">@font/your_font</item>
</style>

<style name="ShapeAppearance.App.SmallComponent" parent="ShapeAppearance.MaterialComponents.SmallComponent">
    <item name="cornerFamily">cut</item>
    <item name="cornerSize">4dp</item>
</style>

Add the below line to your main theme or else you can set style to textinputlayout in your xml

<item name="textInputStyle">@style/Widget.App.TextInputLayout</item>

<style name="TextAppearance.App.TextInputLayout" parent="@android:style/TextAppearance">
    <item name="android:textColor">@color/red</item>
    <item name="android:textSize">14sp</item>
</style>

<android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:textColorHint="@color/gray"  //support 23.0.0
    app:hintTextAppearance="@style/TextAppearence.App.TextInputLayout" >

    <android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatEditText
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:hint="@string/hint" />
</android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout>

Found the answer, use android.support.design:hintTextAppearance attribute to set your own floating label appearance.

Example:

<android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    app:hintTextAppearance="@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat">

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/password"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:hint="@string/prompt_password"/>
</android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout>

>how do I change the floating label text color?

With the Material Components library you can customize the TextInputLayout the hint text color using (it requires the version 1.1.0)

• In the layout:

• app:hintTextColor attribute : the color of the label when it is collapsed and the text field is active

• android:textColorHint attribute: the color of the label in all other text field states (such as resting and disabled)

<com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout
     app:hintTextColor="@color/mycolor"
     android:textColorHint="@color/text_input_hint_selector"
     .../>

• extending a material style Widget.MaterialComponents.TextInputLayout.*:

<style name="MyFilledBox" parent="Widget.MaterialComponents.TextInputLayout.FilledBox">
    <item name="hintTextColor">@color/mycolor</item>
    <item name="android:textColorHint">@color/text_input_hint_selector</item>
</style>

The default selector for android:textColorHint is:

<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
  <item android:alpha="0.38" android:color="?attr/colorOnSurface" android:state_enabled="false"/>
  <item android:alpha="0.6" android:color="?attr/colorOnSurface"/>
</selector>

You don't need to use android:theme="@style/TextInputLayoutTheme" to change the floating label color, since it's going to affect to the entire theme for the small TextView used as label. Instead, you could use app:hintTextAppearance="@style/TextInputLayout.HintText" where:

<style name="TextInputLayout.HintText">
  <item name="android:textColor">?attr/colorPrimary</item>
  <item name="android:textSize">@dimen/text_tiny_size</item>
  ...
</style>

Let me know if the solution works :-)

Ok, so, I found this answer very helpful and thanks to all the people who contributed. Just to add something, though. The accepted answer is indeed the correct answer...BUT...in my case, I was looking to implement the error message below the EditText widget with app:errorEnabled="true" and this single line made my life difficult. it seems that this overrides the theme I chose for android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout, which has a different text color defined by android:textColorPrimary.

In the end I took to applying a text color directly to the EditText widget. My code looks something like this:

styles.xml

<item name="colorPrimary">@color/my_yellow</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/my_yellow_dark</item>
<item name="colorAccent">@color/my_yellow_dark</item>
<item name="android:textColorPrimary">@android:color/white</item>
<item name="android:textColorSecondary">@color/dark_gray</item>
<item name="android:windowBackground">@color/light_gray</item>
<item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
<item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
<item name="android:textColorHint">@color/dark_gray</item>
<item name="android:colorControlNormal">@android:color/black</item>
<item name="android:colorControlActivated">@android:color/white</item>

And my widget:

<android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout
        android:id="@+id/log_in_layout_name"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        app:errorEnabled="true">

        <EditText
            android:id="@+id/log_in_name"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
            android:textColor="@android:color/black"
            android:ems="10"
            android:hint="@string/log_in_name"
            android:inputType="textPersonName" />
</android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout>

Now it displays black text color instead of the textColorPrimary white.

Programmatically you can use:

/* Here you get int representation of an HTML color resources */
int yourColorWhenEnabled = ContextCompat.getColor(getContext(), R.color.your_color_enabled);
int yourColorWhenDisabled = ContextCompat.getColor(getContext(), R.color.your_color_disabled);

/* Here you get matrix of states, I suppose it is a matrix because using a matrix you can set the same color (you have an array of colors) for different states in the same array */
int[][] states = new int[][]{new int[]{android.R.attr.state_enabled}, new int[]{-android.R.attr.state_enabled}};

/* You pass a ColorStateList instance to "setDefaultHintTextColor" method, remember that you have a matrix for the states of the view and an array for the colors. So the color in position "colors[0x0]" will be used for every states inside the array in the same position inside the matrix "states", so in the array "states[0x0]". So you have "colors[pos] -> states[pos]", or "colors[pos] -> color used for every states inside the array of view states -> states[pos] */
myTextInputLayout.setDefaultHintTextColor(new ColorStateList(states, new int[]{yourColorWhenEnabled, yourColorWhenDisabled})

Explanation:

Get int color value from a color resource (a way to present rgb colors used by android). I wrote ColorEnabled, but really it should be, for this answer, ColorHintExpanded & ColorViewCollapsed. Anyway this is the color you will see when the hint of a view "TextInputLayout" is on Expanded or Collapsed state; you will set it by using next array on function "setDefaultHintTextColor" of the view. Reference: Reference for TextInputLayout - search in this page the method "setDefaultHintTextColor" for more info

Looking to docs above you can see that the functions set the colors for Expanded & Collapsed hint by using a ColorStateList.

ColorStateList docs

To create the ColorStateList I first created a matrix with the states I want, in my case state_enabled & state_disabled (whose are, in TextInputLayout, equals to Hint Expanded and Hint Collapsed [I don't remember in which order lol, anyway I found it just doing a test]). Then I pass to the constructor of the ColorStateList the arrays with int values of color resources, these colors have a correspondences with the states matrix (every element in colors array correspond to the respective array in states matrix at same position). So the first element of the colors array will be used as color for every state in the first array of the states matrix (in our case the array has only 1 element: enabled state = hint expanded state for TextInputLayut). Last things states have positive / negative values, and you have only the positive values, so the state "disabled" in android attrs is "-android.state.enabled", the state "not focused" is "-android.state.focused" ecc.. ecc..

Hope this is helpful. Bye have a nice coding (:

I suggest you make style theme for TextInputLayout and change only accent color. Set parent to your app base theme:

 <style name="MyTextInputLayout" parent="MyAppThemeBase">
     <item name="colorAccent">@color/colorPrimary</item>
 </style>

 <android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout
  android:layout_width="fill_parent"
  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  android:theme="@style/MyTextInputLayout">

In the latest version of the support library (23.0.0+), TextInputLayout takes the following attribute in XML to edit the floating label color: android:textColorHint="@color/white"

Instead of Brahmam Yamani answer I prefer to use Widget.Design.TextInputLayout as parent. That ensures, that all required items are present, even if not all items are overwritten. In Yamanis answer, the app will crash with an unresolvable resource, if setErrorEnabled(true) is called.

Simply change the style to the following:

<style name="TextLabel" parent="Widget.Design.TextInputLayout">
    <!-- Hint color and label color in FALSE state -->
    <item name="android:textColorHint">@color/Color Name</item> 
    <item name="android:textSize">20sp</item>
    <!-- Label color in TRUE state and bar color FALSE and TRUE State -->
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/Color Name</item>
    <item name="colorControlNormal">@color/Color Name</item>
    <item name="colorControlActivated">@color/Color Name</item>
 </style>

To change color of hint and edit text underline color : colorControlActivated

To change character counter color : textColorSecondary

To change error message color : colorControlNormal

To change password visibility button tint : colorForeground

For more info on TextInputLayout read http://www.zoftino.com/android-textinputlayout-tutorial

<style name="MyAppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
    <item name="colorControlActivated">#e91e63</item>
    <item name="android:colorForeground">#33691e</item>
    <item name="colorControlNormal">#f57f17</item>
    <item name="android:textColorSecondary">#673ab7</item>
</style>

In my case I added this "app:hintTextAppearance="@color/colorPrimaryDark"in my TextInputLayout widget.

This is simple but the developer gets confused due to multiple views having the same attributes in different configurations/namespaces.

In the case of the TextInputLayout we have every time a different view and with params either with TextInputEditText or directly to TextInputLayout.

I was using all the above fixes: But I found that I was using

                app:textColorHint="@color/textcolor_black"

actually i should be using

                android:textColorHint="@color/textcolor_black"

As an attribute of TextinputLayout

textcolor_black.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item android:color="@color/black_txt" android:state_enabled="true" />
    <item android:color="@color/black_txt" android:state_selected="true" />
    <item android:color="@color/txtColorGray" android:state_selected="false" />
    <item android:color="@color/txtColorGray" android:state_enabled="false" />
</selector>

you should change your colour here

<style name="Base.Theme.DesignDemo" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
        <item name="colorPrimary">#673AB7</item>
        <item name="colorPrimaryDark">#512DA8</item>
        <item name="colorAccent">#FF4081</item>
        <item name="android:windowBackground">@color/window_background</item>
    </style>

Now, simply using colorAccent and colorPrimary will work perfectly.

I solve the problem. This is Layout：

 <android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout
           android:id="@+id/til_username"
           android:layout_width="match_parent"
           android:layout_height="wrap_content"
           android:hint="@string/username"
           >

           <android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatEditText android:id="@+id/et_username"
               android:layout_width="match_parent"
               android:layout_height="wrap_content"
               android:singleLine="true"
               />
       </android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout>

This is Style:

<style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
        <!--
            Theme customizations available in newer API levels can go in
            res/values-vXX/styles.xml, while customizations related to
            backward-compatibility can go here.
        -->
    </style>
<!-- Application theme. -->


 <style name="AppTheme" parent="AppBaseTheme">
        <!-- All customizations that are NOT specific to a particular API-level can go here. -->
        <item name="colorAccent">@color/pink</item>
        <item name="colorControlNormal">@color/purple</item>
        <item name="colorControlActivated">@color/yellow</item>
    </style>

You should use your theme in application:

<application
        android:allowBackup="true"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >
</application>

to change color of the text label when you are focusing on it. i.e. typing in it. you have to add specify

<item name="android:textColorPrimary">@color/yourcolorhere</item>

Just a note: You have to add all these implementations to your main theme.

Its Working for me ..... add hint color in TextInputLayout

    <android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout
        android:textColorHint="#ffffff"
        android:id="@+id/input_layout_password"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content">
        <EditText
            android:id="@+id/edtTextPassword"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginTop="15dp"
            android:hint="Password"
            android:inputType="textPassword"
            android:singleLine="true"
            />
    </android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout>

I tried using android:textColorHint in the android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout it works fine.

        <android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:textColorHint="@color/colorAccent">

            <EditText
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:hint="Hello"
                android:imeActionLabel="Hello"
                android:imeOptions="actionUnspecified"
                android:maxLines="1"
                android:singleLine="true"/>

        </android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout>

  <style name="AppTheme2" parent="AppTheme">
    <!-- Customize your theme here. -->
    <item name="colorControlNormal">#fff</item>
    <item name="colorControlActivated">#fff</item></style>    

add this to styles and set TextInputLayout Theam to App2 and it will work ;)

<com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout
    android:hint="Hint"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:theme="@style/TextInputLayoutHint">

    <androidx.appcompat.widget.AppCompatEditText
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:inputType="text"
        android:maxLines="1"
        android:paddingTop="@dimen/_5sdp"
        android:paddingBottom="@dimen/_5sdp"
        android:textColor="#000000"
        android:textColorHint="#959aa6" />

</com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout>

res/values/styles.xml

<style name="TextInputLayoutHint" parent="">
    <item name="android:textColorHint">#545454</item>
    <item name="colorControlActivated">#2dbc99</item>
    <item name="android:textSize">11sp</item>
</style>

Can use app:hintTextColor if you use com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout, try this

 <com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout
     android:layout_width="match_parent"
     android:layout_height="wrap_content"
     android:hint="@string/app_name" 
     app:hintTextColor="@android:color/white">                   

     <com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputEditText
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        />
 </com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout>

Try The Below Code It Works In Normal State

<android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout
 android:layout_width="match_parent"
 android:layout_height="wrap_content"
 android:theme="@style/TextLabel">

 <android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatEditText
     android:layout_width="match_parent"
     android:layout_height="wrap_content"
     android:hint="Hiiiii"
     android:id="@+id/edit_id"/>


</android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout>

In Styles Folder TextLabel Code

 <style name="TextLabel" parent="TextAppearance.AppCompat">
<!-- Hint color and label color in FALSE state -->
<item name="android:textColorHint">@color/Color Name</item> 
<item name="android:textSize">20sp</item>
<!-- Label color in TRUE state and bar color FALSE and TRUE State -->
<item name="colorAccent">@color/Color Name</item>
<item name="colorControlNormal">@color/Color Name</item>
<item name="colorControlActivated">@color/Color Name</item>
 </style>

From the documentation:

> The hint should be set on the TextInputLayout, rather than the EditText. If a hint is specified on the child EditText in XML, the TextInputLayout might still work correctly; TextInputLayout will use the EditText's hint as its floating label. However, future calls to modify the hint will not update TextInputLayout's hint. To avoid unintended behavior, call setHint(CharSequence) and getHint() on TextInputLayout, instead of on EditText.

So I set android:hint and app:hintTextColor on TextInputLayout, not on TextInputEditText and it worked.

Because you must add colorControlNormal, colorControlActivated, colorControlHighLight items to main application theme:

<!-- Base application theme. -->
    <style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
       
        <item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
        <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
        <item name="colorAccent">@color/colorAccent</item>
        
        <item name="colorControlActivated">@color/yellow_bright</item>
        <item name="colorControlNormal">@color/yellow_black</item>

    </style>

Too many complicated solutions. Here is a one liner to change the color of the floating label.

<com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout
   app:hintTextColor="@color/white"/>

---

In addition to change other attributes:

To change the box stroke color:

<com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout
    app:boxStrokeColor="@color/green"

---

To change the box stroke width:

<com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout 
     app:boxStrokeWidth="1.5dp"

---

To change the edit TextInputEditText hint color:

<com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputEditText
     android:textColorHint="@color/white"

---

To change the TextInputEditText color:

<com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputEditText           
            android:textColor="@color/white" />