How to set support library snackbar text color to something other than android:textColor?

Question

So I\'ve started using the new Snackbar in the Design Support Library, but I found that when you define \"android:textColor\" in your theme, it applies to the text color of the

Answer 1

Alright so I fixed it by basically reorganizing the way I do text colors.

In my light theme, I set android:textColorPrimary to the normal dark text I wanted, and I set android:textColor to white.

I updated all of my text views and buttons to have android:textColor="?android:attr/textColorPrimary".

So because snackbar draws from textColor, I just set all of my other text to textColorPrimary.

EDIT JANUARY 2017: ----------------------------------------------------

So as the comments say, and as stated in the edited original question above, you should probably not define android:textColor in your themes, as this changes the text color of every view inside the theme.