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I'm trying to change the datepicker color to white in Android. I've tried with colorPrimary in styles.xml with no luck:

<style name="AppTheme" parent="AppThemeBase">
    <item name="android:datePickerStyle">@style/SpinnerDatePicker</item>
</style>

<style name="SpinnerDatePicker" parent="android:Widget.Material.Light.DatePicker">
    <item name="colorPrimary">#FFF</item>
    <item name="android:datePickerMode">spinner</item>
</style>

Also, is there a way to use one color in a component and another in a second or am I bound to use one color for the whole app?

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You can't change the color of the DatePicker dynamically... at least it is not a trivial job. The thing is that even in native Android changing the color via code-behind can be achieved only with the Reflection API (see here for details).

To change the text color of the DatePicker there is one important thing to notice - you should apply android:textColorPrimary directly in the main app theme (see the comments here for details)

For example: values-v21/style.xml

<style name="AppTheme" parent="AppThemeBase">
    <item name="android:textColorPrimary">@color/ns_green</item> <!-- HERE -->
    <item name="android:datePickerStyle">@style/SpinnerDatePicker</item>
    <item name="android:timePickerStyle">@style/SpinnerTimePicker</item>
</style>

In the example above ns_green is defined in colors.xml

<color name="ns_green">#1eb234</color>
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  • Ok, but even if I can't change it dynamically (that was my second question). Why is not at least presented in the color I'm setting for the whole app? Thanks! – cerealex Sep 13 '18 at 13:58
  • I've extended my answer to demonstrate how to change the text color via the styles.xml file – Nick Iliev Sep 14 '18 at 06:41