How to apply tint to checkbox preference programmatically in Android?

Question

How to apply tint to CheckBox preference programmatically in Android?

CheckBox preference is already shown with grey because of the theme but I need to apply/change tint programmatically to some other colour. How to achieve this?

Answer 1

Tinting Checkbox on pre v21

A checkbox can be tinted by using the theme atttribute and setting the colorControlNormal and colorControlActivated:

styles.xml

<style name="MyCheckBox" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">  
<item name="colorControlNormal">@color/indigo</item>
<item name="colorControlActivated">@color/pink</item>
</style> 

layout xml:

<CheckBox  
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:checked="true"
        android:text="Check Box"
        android:theme="@style/MyCheckBox"/>

Answer 2

I suggest @ywwynm answer from How to change checkbox checked color programmatically

public static void setCheckBoxColor(AppCompatCheckBox checkBox, int uncheckedColor, int checkedColor) {
    ColorStateList colorStateList = new ColorStateList(
            new int[][] {
                    new int[] { -android.R.attr.state_checked }, // unchecked
                    new int[] {  android.R.attr.state_checked }  // checked
            },
            new int[] {
                    uncheckedColor,
                    checkedColor
            }
    );
    checkBox.setSupportButtonTintList(colorStateList);
}

setting setSupportButtonTintList with ColorStateList then setting checked and unchecked state programmatically will surely reach your answer