androidandroid-autofill-manager

Oreo - Autofill Framework background highlight color

Is it possible to change EditText autofill highlight color? By default it has yellow background that may be incompatible with application design.

Solution

  • According to Android documentation, to change highlight color you have to edit application theme. You can set color or drawable to android:autofilledHighlight parameter.

    <style name="AppTheme" parent="...">
    <item name="android:autofilledHighlight">@color/colorAccent</item>
</style>

    To apply theme to an application set theme in AndroidManifest.xml

    <application ...
android:theme="@style/AppTheme">