Use custom hint text color for hints in enabled and disabled views

Question

I'm trying to add custom styles to a TextInputLayout and TextInputEditText and I´m not able to get the expected results. What I need is to have a custom color "A" for hints in enabled views and a custom color "B" for hints in disabled views.

Right now I have a style with a selector for hints enabled/disabled. This is the style:

<style name="CustomTextInputLayoutStyle" parent="Widget.MaterialComponents.TextInputLayout.OutlinedBox.Dense">
    <item name="boxStrokeColor">@color/input_blue</item>
    <item name="boxStrokeWidth">2dp</item>
    <item name="errorTextAppearance">@style/ErrorText</item>
    <item name="android:textColorHint">@color/selector_edithintcolor</item>
</style>

Here is the selector, you can see the color to make the point:

Now some of the components in the layout:

<com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout
    android:id="@+id/layout_text_disabled"
    style="@style/CustomTextInputLayoutStyle"
    android:layout_width="0dp"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_marginStart="32dp"
    android:layout_marginTop="32dp"
    android:layout_marginEnd="32dp"
    app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@id/layout_phone_not_focused">

    <com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputEditText
        android:id="@+id/txt_text_disabled"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:hint="@string/hint_deactivated"
        android:inputType="text"
        android:text="@string/txt_disabled" />
</com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout>

<com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout
    android:id="@+id/layout_text_disabled_hint"
    style="@style/CustomTextInputLayoutStyle"
    android:layout_width="0dp"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_marginStart="32dp"
    android:layout_marginTop="32dp"
    android:layout_marginEnd="32dp"
    app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@id/layout_text_disabled">

    <com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputEditText
        android:id="@+id/txt_text_disabled_hint"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:hint="@string/hint_deactivated"
        android:inputType="text" />
</com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout>

Additionally I have a button to change the status of those 2 views from enabled to disabled, here is the behavior:

When views are enabled everything is as expected, hints have the green color as per the selector:

Now when I disable the views, this is what I get:

Any ideas for making the disabled hints be orange as per the selector? Thanks in advance!

Possible duplicate of [How to change the floating label color of TextInputLayout](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30546430/how-to-change-the-floating-label-color-of-textinputlayout) — Nikos Hidalgo, Jul 08 '19 at 16:19

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 15 '20 at 13:48

Following this link it appears that it is now possible with version 1.2.0-alpha03 of com.google.android.material:material You need to create a color state list like so :

box_stroke_color_state_list.xml

<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item android:color="?colorPrimary" android:state_enabled="true" />
    <item android:color="?colorSecondary" android:state_hovered="true" />
    <item android:color="?colorSecondary" android:state_focused="true" />
    <!-- This is where the disable hint and box will take it's color -->
    <item android:alpha="@dimen/material_emphasis_disabled" android:color="@android:color/holo_green_dark" android:state_enabled="false" />
    <item android:color="@color/mtrl_textinput_default_box_stroke_color" />
</selector>

and then call it in your code :

ContextCompat.getColorStateList(context, R.color.box_stroke_color_state_list)?.let {
    layout_text_disabled_hint.setBoxStrokeColorStateList(it)
}

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 17 '20 at 12:44

Based on the @Caktuspace reply, you can apply in this way:

layout.xml

<com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout
    android:id="@+id/til"
    ...
    android:hint="@string/hello"
    android:textColorHint="@color/hint_text_color_textinputlayout">

hint_text_color_textinputlayout.xml

<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item android:alpha="@dimen/material_emphasis_disabled" android:color="@color/desiredColorDisabled" android:state_enabled="false" />
    <item android:color="@color/desiredColorEnabled" />
</selector>

Use custom hint text color for hints in enabled and disabled views

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