android EditText blends into background

Question

My app uses Theme.Holo.Light.DarkActionBar as the parent theme.

When I use my Android 3.2 tablet emulator, the EditText shape is almost impossible to se

Answer 1

You can have an action bar and still see the EditText light grey background watermark if you use themes like below:

AndroidManifest.xml

<activity
  android:name=".ClassName"
  android:label="ClassName"
  android:theme="@style/MyTheme" >

styles.xml

<resources>
  <style name="MyTheme" parent="android:Theme.Holo.Light">
    <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/MyActionBar</item>
  </style>
  <style name="MyActionBar" parent="android:Widget.Holo.ActionBar">
    <item name="android:background">@color/black</item>
  </style>
</resources>

This works for the theme "android:Theme.Holo.Light" but not for the theme "android:Theme.Holo".

Answer 2

I figure out my issue. By setting theme in application element android:theme="@android:style/Theme" in manifest.xml file.

<application 

android:label="@string/app_name" 

android:icon="@drawable/logo" 

android:vmSafeMode="false" 

android:theme="@android:style/Theme">

Try this.

Answer 3

The other answers weren't actually solutions to my problem and I never figured out what was REALLY causing the issue. However, this is how I solved it: My workaround was to copy the .9.pngs and styling for the EditText widget from Ice Cream Sandwich and hardcoded into my app for Honeycomb and Ice Cream Sandwich.

EDIT:

I created a file called res/drawable-nodpi/edit_text_holo_light.xml with the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

    <item android:state_multiline="true" android:state_window_focused="false" android:state_enabled="true"  android:drawable="@drawable/textfield_multiline_default_holo_light" />
    <item android:state_multiline="true" android:state_window_focused="false" android:state_enabled="false" android:drawable="@drawable/textfield_multiline_disabled_holo_light" />
    <item android:state_multiline="true" android:state_enabled="true" android:state_focused="true" android:drawable="@drawable/textfield_multiline_activated_holo_light" />
    <item android:state_multiline="true" android:state_enabled="true" android:state_activated="true" android:drawable="@drawable/textfield_multiline_focused_holo_light" />
    <item android:state_multiline="true" android:state_enabled="true" android:drawable="@drawable/textfield_multiline_default_holo_light" />
    <item android:state_multiline="true" android:state_focused="true" android:drawable="@drawable/textfield_multiline_disabled_focused_holo_light" />
    <item android:state_multiline="true" android:drawable="@drawable/textfield_multiline_disabled_holo_light" />

    <item android:state_window_focused="false" android:state_enabled="true" android:drawable="@drawable/textfield_default_holo_light" />
    <item android:state_window_focused="false" android:state_enabled="false" android:drawable="@drawable/textfield_disabled_holo_light" />
    <item android:state_enabled="true" android:state_focused="true" android:drawable="@drawable/textfield_activated_holo_light" />
    <iten android:state_enabled="true" android:state_activated="true" android:drawable="@drawable/textfield_focused_holo_light" />
    <item android:state_enabled="true" android:drawable="@drawable/textfield_default_holo_light" />
    <item android:state_focused="true" android:drawable="@drawable/textfield_disabled_focused_holo_light" />
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/textfield_disabled_holo_light" />
</selector>

Then I created a style in my styles.xml to set:

<item name="android:background">@drawable/edit_text_holo_light</item>

Then I copied the .9.png files from the android sdk and put them in res/drawable-*. The filenames are listed in the above xml.