Android Customize EditText on Lollipop and Upper Version

Question

On Android 5.0 and upper version EditText has a tint of the colorAccent from the AppTheme on it's background,cursor. But I want to not apply this colorAccent by custom. Like for example I declared my Theme style like below.

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">    
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/color_primary</item>
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/color_primary_dark</item>
    <item name="android:textColorPrimary">@color/text_color_primary</item>
    <item name="android:textColorPrimaryInverse">@color/text_color_primary_inverse</item>
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/color_accent</item>
</style>

All I want is colorAccent would not applicable only for the EditText. Is there any way to do that?

Answer 1

Why dont you just define a new style

<style name="AppTheme2" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">    
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/color_primary</item>
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/color_primary_dark</item>
    <item name="android:textColorPrimary">@color/text_color_primary</item>
    <item name="android:textColorPrimaryInverse">@color/text_color_primary_inverse</item>
</style>

And then do:

<EditText
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme2"/>