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Android - AppCompatEditText theme not being applied inside fragment

I added a new library app-compat 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:22.1.0' to my project, but it seems the problem is applying the theme to AppCompatEditText when it's inside a fragment.

This is my EditText:

<android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatEditText
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:singleLine="true"
        android:textColor="@color/teal_300"
        android:textCursorDrawable="@null"
        android:textColorHint="@color/text_hint"
        style="@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Display1"
        android:theme="@style/Theme.MyTheme.EditText"/>

This is the topic:

<style name="Theme.MyTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/teal_500</item>
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/teal_700</item>
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/orange_500</item>
    <item name="colorControlNormal">@color/grey</item>
    <item name="colorControlActivated">@color/teal_300</item>
    <item name="colorControlHighlight">@color/teal_300</item>
    <item name="colorSwitchThumbNormal">@color/teal_300</item>
</style>

<style name="Theme.MyTheme.EditText" parent="Theme.MyTheme">
    <item name="colorControlNormal">@color/orange_500</item>
    <item name="colorControlActivated">@color/orange_500</item>
</style>

So basically I just want to change the EditText's underline color to orange and not gray / teal.

When I put this code directly into the activity layout, it works great, so the underline is orange. But if I put the same code inside the fragment layout, the underline is greyed out / blank. So the theme doesn't apply.

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This is a 22.1 related issue

The problem occurs when you are using the inflater instance passed to Fragment # onCreateView ().



The workaround now is to use the LayoutInflater from getActivity () instead. getLayoutInflater ().

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You should use style instead of theme for the EditText, for example:

<style name="EditText" parent="Widget.AppCompat.EditText">
    <item name="colorControlNormal">@color/orange_500</item>
    <item name="colorControlActivated">@color/orange_500</item>
     <item name="android:textAppearance">@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Display1</item>
</style>


Than only the style and theme are applicable.

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