Change the color of the cursor of an EditText in Android across all the sdk

Question

Want to change the android\'s edittext cursor color, that has to be worked on across all the devices

Answer 1

The way to get it across all platforms is as such.

1 - Open your layout.xml in your layout folder. Find the edit text and set

android:cursorVisible="true"

this will set the cursor for devices lower that os version 11

2 - Create your cursor_drawable.xml in the drawable folder

3 - Create a folder layout-v11

4 - Copy your layout.xml into the layout-v11

5 - Find your edit text and set android:textCursorDrawable="@drawable/cursor_drawable"

This will make a cursor be shown on all devices and OS.