textColor of my AutoCompleteTextView is always white

Question

For some reason, no matter what I do the text coming up in my AutoCompleteTextView is always white. I've explicitly set textColor to black in my XML. I'm wondering if android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1 is white by default?

Here is where I set up my ArrayAdapter:

final ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(getApplicationContext(), android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1, strings);
                    AutoCompleteTextView textView = (AutoCompleteTextView) findViewById(R.id.searchUserTextField);
                    textView.setAdapter(adapter);

Here is my XML:

<AutoCompleteTextView
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="65dp"
            android:background="@drawable/edittext_border"
            android:layout_gravity="top"
            android:textColor="#000000"
            android:hint="@string/search_user"
            android:id="@+id/searchUserTextField"
            android:ems="150"
            android:paddingLeft="25dp"
            android:paddingTop="10dp"
            android:paddingRight="10dp"
            android:paddingBottom="10dp"
            android:maxLines ="4"
            android:maxLength ="150"
            android:scrollHorizontally="false"
            android:typeface="sans"
            android:textSize="14sp"
            android:fontFamily="sans-serif-light"
            android:capitalize="none"
            android:inputType="textEmailAddress"
            android:gravity="center_vertical"
            android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
            android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
            android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
            android:layout_toLeftOf="@+id/submitSearch"
            android:layout_toStartOf="@+id/submitSearch" />

Answer 1

Looked like its a logged bug in AOSP. You can find some more information as well as workarounds in this post AutoCompleteTextview Color set white by default