How to change the floating hint color of TextInputLayout if EditText inside is disabled

Question

I am using EditText with TextInputLayout. I just want to change the floating hint color of TextInputLayout if the EditText is disabled. I tried with selector it is not working.

<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item android:state_enabled="false" android:textColor="@color/darkGray" />
    <item android:state_pressed="false" android:state_focused="false" android:textColor="@color/lightGray"/>
</selector>

Answer 1

There's one method called setHintTextAppearance(int styleId) in TextInputLayout class. You can use this method to set difference colors to hint text on basis of enabled/disabled state.

Example :

//for disabled editText
mEditText.setEnabled(false);
mTextInoutLayout.setHintTextAppearance(R.style.CustomHintDisabled);

//for enablededitText
mEditText.setEnabled(true);
mTextInoutLayout.setHintTextAppearance(R.style.CustomHintEnabled);

And in your styles.xml

<style name="CustomHintDisabled" parent="YourBaseTheme.TextAppearance">
    <item name="textColor">@color/gray</item>
</style>

<style name="CustomHintEnabled" parent="YourBaseTheme.TextAppearance">
    <item name="textColor">@color/black</item>
</style>