ExtendedFloatingActionButton without using MaterialComponentTheme

Question

I want to use ExtendedFloatingActionButton but I don't want to apply activity wide MaterialComponent themes because I have existing buttons with custom backgrounds and icons and I'll need to modify those for material themes. I tried using MaterialComponent Bridge themes but ExtendedFloatingActionButton doesn't work with bridge theme. It's not rendered properly.

Answer 1

Fixed it by explicitly applying style to the ExtendedFloatingActionButton while using the bridge theme for activity.

<activity
      android:name=".ui.activity.ActivityName"
      android:screenOrientation="portrait"
      android:theme="@style/AppThemeMaterial.NoActionBar">

while AppTheme material is

<style name="AppThemeMaterial" parent="Theme.MaterialComponents.Light.Bridge" />

You can use any of the bridge themes. Finally, applied the ExtendedFloatingActionButton theme explicitly.

 <com.google.android.material.floatingactionbutton.ExtendedFloatingActionButton
         android:id="@+id/fab"
         style="@style/Widget.MaterialComponents.ExtendedFloatingActionButton"
         ... 
/>