Is it possible to make an EditText in android 2.x that looks like an EditText from Android 4?

Question

Is it possible to make an EditText in android 2.x that looks like an EditText from Android 4? I mean blue backlight with flanged edges below.

Answer 1

Yes there is a library called holoeverywhere, you'll get all 4.2 components in 2.1+:

https://github.com/ChristopheVersieux/HoloEverywhere

Answer 2

If you don't want to use an external library you can use the following code:

add the below code to res\values\styles.xml

<style name="HoloEditText">
    <item name="android:background">@drawable/edit_text_holo_dark</item>
</style>

After that from YOURPATH\android-sdk\platforms\android-16\data\res\ just copy the edit_text_holo_dark.xml and all referenced drawables to the corresponding directories in your project.

And then simply apply the style to your EditText:

 <EditText
   android:id="@+id/editText"
   style="@style/HoloEditText"
   android:layout_width="fill_parent"
   android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>