Android – (Material) EditText underline color

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My problem is that I don't know how to change underline color of EditText – I have LG Nexus 5 (Android 6).

I would like to change normal underline color to white. I used all params like (style):

colorControlNormal
colorControlActivated
colorControlHighlight
textColorSecondary
colorPrimary
colorPrimaryDark

e.g.

<style name="FormFont" parent="@android:style/TextAppearance.Medium">
    <item name="android:textColor">@color/white</item>
    <item name="android:textSize">@dimen/form_text_size</item>
    <item name="colorControlNormal">#c5c5c5</item>
</style>

but nothing seems to work (it only changes color when EditText us focused like in above pic).

Best Answer

<style name="Theme.App.Base" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
    <item name="colorControlNormal">#c5c5c5</item>
    <item name="colorControlActivated">@color/accent</item>
    <item name="colorControlHighlight">@color/accent</item>
</style>

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Android – How to stop EditText from gaining focus at Activity startup in Android

Excellent answers from Luc and Mark. However, a good code sample is missing. Adding the tags android:focusableInTouchMode="true" and android:focusable="true" to the parent layout (e.g. LinearLayout or ConstraintLayout) like in the following example, will fix the problem.

<!-- Dummy item to prevent AutoCompleteTextView from receiving focus -->
<LinearLayout
    android:focusable="true" 
    android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
    android:layout_width="0px" 
    android:layout_height="0px"/>

<!-- :nextFocusUp and :nextFocusLeft have been set to the id of this component
to prevent the dummy from receiving focus again -->
<AutoCompleteTextView android:id="@+id/autotext"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:nextFocusUp="@id/autotext" 
    android:nextFocusLeft="@id/autotext"/>

Android – underline text in an Android layout

It can be achieved if you are using a string resource xml file, which supports HTML tags like ,  and .

<resources>
    <string name="your_string_here">This is an <u>underline</u>.</string>
</resources>

If you want to underline something from code use:

TextView textView = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.textview);
SpannableString content = new SpannableString("Content");
content.setSpan(new UnderlineSpan(), 0, content.length(), 0);
textView.setText(content);

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