Apply tint to PreferenceActivity widgets with AppCompat v21

Question

I\'m using CheckboxPreference in a PreferenceActivity and an AppCompat theme from the v21 support library. As you already know, with this latest library widgets like checkbo

Answer 1

So far, my own (sad) workaround was to create from scratch my own checkbox drawables, using the colors which the checkbox should have been tinted with in the first place.

In styles.xml:

drawable/my_checkbox.xml:

checkbox_on" andcheckbox_off` are the PNG drawables for the selected and unselected states, obviously one for each screen density. If you mind dimension consistency, the baseline (MDPI) dimension of the drawables should be 32px full asset and 18px optical square.