I am trying to change the bottom line colour of EditText but it is showing default blue line colour.I failed to understand where am I going wrong?
<EditText
android:id="@+id/searchtext"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textSize="15dp"
android:textColor="#000000"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:maxLines="1"
android:singleLine="true"
android:layout_toLeftOf="@+id/usericonlayout"
android:padding="7dp"
android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
android:hint="Search for all GIFs"
android:textColorHint="#A0A0A0"
android:shadowColor="@color/border_gray"
android:theme="@style/EditTextStyle"/>
styles.xml
<style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="android:Theme.Light">
<item name="colorAccent">@color/border_gray</item>
<item name="android:editTextStyle">@style/EditTextStyle</item>
</style>
<style name="AppTheme" parent="AppBaseTheme">
<item name="colorAccent">@color/border_gray</item>
<item name="android:editTextStyle">@style/EditTextStyle</item>
</style
<style name="EditTextStyle" parent="Widget.AppCompat.EditText">
<item name="colorControlNormal">@color/border_gray</item>
<item name="colorControlActivated">@color/border_gray</item>
<item name="colorControlHighlight">@color/border_gray</item>
</style>
I also tried -
edittext.getBackground().setColorFilter(getResources().getColor(R.color.border_gray), PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_ATOP);
but didn't worked