How to change android button text color globally in theme

Question

How can I change all my buttons text color?

I know I can set the background color like follows :

<style name="AppTheme.Base" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
    ...
    <item name="colorButtonNormal">@color/buttonColor</item>
</style>

How can I do this for the button Text?

[Check this](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14023601/android-style-specify-button-color) — M D, Mar 28 '16 at 11:31

score 44 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 30 '21 at 15:17

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 <style name="AppTheme.Base" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
   <item name="android:textColor">#yourcolor</item>
    <item name="android:buttonStyle">@style/ButtonColor</item>
    <item name="colorButtonNormal">@color/buttonColor</item>
</style>



<style name="ButtonColor" parent="@android:style/Widget.Button">
   <item name="android:textColor">@color/yourcolor</item>
</style>

android:textColor This should help you change the text color globally.

edited Mar 30 '21 at 15:17

thepurpleowl

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answered Mar 28 '16 at 11:32

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Will this only be for buttons? or `editText` and `textView` – Zapnologica Mar 28 '16 at 11:38
i have edited the code. this code will only apply for button's. The older one , apply's for all. ThankYou. I hope this was helpful. – Sumanth Jois Mar 28 '16 at 11:41
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Works, but use `@style/Widget.AppCompat.Button` as the parent style for ButtonColor to get Material Design AppCompat style. – levibostian Sep 06 '17 at 00:48
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in this answer #yourcolor seam to not only apply to button but also to everything – zeus Oct 16 '18 at 11:17

score 11 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:18

For anyone that stumbles onto this, I recommend checking out a similar question about Material Design Button Styles. With a theme, your "accent color" will be used to color your button.

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
    ...
    <item name="android:buttonStyle">@style/Widget.AppCompat.Button.Colored</item>
    <item name="buttonStyle">@style/Widget.AppCompat.Button.Colored</item>
</style>

score 10 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 28 '16 at 12:12

If you just need to change the text colour of buttons. You can modify the textAppearanceButton style attribute of your main theme.

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
    <item name="colorButtonNormal">@color/buttonColor</item>
    <item name="android:textAppearanceButton">@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Button.Custom</item>
</style>

And declare your new textAppearance style as follows

<style name="TextAppearance.AppCompat.Button.Custom">
    <item name="android:textColor">@color/mycustomcolor</item>
</style>

Gabriele Mariotti · Answer 4 · 2020-05-30T16:13:19.920

With the new Theme.MaterialComponents theme you can define the materialButtonStyle attribute in your app theme.

  <!-- Base application theme. -->
    <style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.MaterialComponents.Light">
    ....

    <item name="materialButtonStyle">@style/MyButtonTheme</item>
  </style>

In this way you can customize globally the style of all buttons in your app. You can override the theme attributes from the default style using the materialThemeOverlay attribute.

Something like:

  <style name="MyButtonTheme" parent="Widget.MaterialComponents.Button">
    <item name="materialThemeOverlay">@style/ButtonStyleTextColor</item>
  </style>

  <style name="ButtonStyleTextColor">
    <!-- For filled buttons, your theme's colorPrimary provides the default background color of the component, and -->
    <!--the text color is colorOnPrimary -->
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/my_color</item>
    <item name="colorOnPrimary">@color/my_color2</item>

  </style>

Currently the materialThemeOverlay attribute requires version 1.1.0 of material components for android library.

score 0 · Answer 5 · edited Aug 01 '18 at 18:22

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Just using AppCompatButton by setting this attribute :

"app:backgroundTint="@color/wildberries"

And make sure your activity extends AppCompatActivity. I just use it in my project. It works like a charm in both 5.X and pre-5.X.

edited Aug 01 '18 at 18:22

BattleTested_закалённый в бою

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answered Jun 12 '17 at 06:47

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This doesn't change the colour of the buttons' text. – ban-geoengineering Aug 09 '20 at 11:43

Omkar Ghurye · Answer 6 · 2020-05-19T19:07:00.707

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<Button  
     app:backgroundTint="#fece2f" //any color
 />

This is best way if you don't want it to be defined globally

edited May 19 '20 at 19:07

answered May 19 '20 at 17:32

Omkar Ghurye

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This doesn't change the colour of the buttons' text. – ban-geoengineering Aug 09 '20 at 11:42

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