How to change the floating label color of TextInputLayout

Question

With reference to the new TextInputLayout released by Google, how do I change the floating label text color?

Setting colorControlNormal,

Answer 1

You don't need to use android:theme="@style/TextInputLayoutTheme" to change the floating label color, since it's going to affect to the entire theme for the small TextView used as label. Instead, you could use app:hintTextAppearance="@style/TextInputLayout.HintText" where:

<style name="TextInputLayout.HintText">
  <item name="android:textColor">?attr/colorPrimary</item>
  <item name="android:textSize">@dimen/text_tiny_size</item>
  ...
</style>

Let me know if the solution works :-)