change backgroundcolor of text in edittext

Question

I have an edittext box and I would like to change the background color of text in edittext and not edittext background color.Basically there will be 2 background color in the end both edittext background color and textbackground color.How can add textbackground color to edittext?

<EditText
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:id="@+id/editText"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
        android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
        android:layout_alignParentEnd="true"

        android:textColor="@android:color/white"
        />

android:textColor="#000" android:background="#ff0", i am confused — Pankaj Nimgade, Apr 10 '15 at 07:51
that´s not possible by the usual way. I think You have to design a xml layout (for example a shape) for that and set it as background of edit text... — Opiatefuchs, Apr 10 '15 at 07:52
How can I do that ? I thought we can handle both background color the same way but I couldn't.Can you share any link or article for the same? — jason, Apr 10 '15 at 07:54
@PiotrGolinski Please can you elaborate .I tried your code but was not working. — jason, Apr 10 '15 at 07:58
may this helps you: use this for edit text.[click here][1] [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3282940/set-color-of-textview-span-in-android — Rahul Sharma, Apr 10 '15 at 08:13

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 10 '15 at 08:05

<FrameLayout
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:background="#F00">

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/editText"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentEnd="true"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
        android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:layout_margin="5dp"
        android:background="#0F0"
        android:minWidth="50dp"
        android:textColor="@android:color/white" />
</FrameLayout>

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 13 '15 at 10:36

<EditText
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:id="@+id/editText"
    android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
    android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
    android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
    android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
    android:layout_alignParentEnd="true"

    <!---------------just add these two lines---------------------------->
    android:textColor="@android:color/white"`      
    android:background="@android:color/blue"`

/>

change backgroundcolor of text in edittext

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