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Exported May 9, 2026
Update 2019: There is no public API to set the cursor drawable. See https://stackoverflow.com/a/57555148/253468 for API available on 29 and above, before that conditionally you'll need to use reflection as described...
For anyone that needs to set the EditText cursor color dynamically, below you will find two ways to achieve this. First, create your cursor drawable: Set the cursor drawable resource id to the drawable you created (...
How to do it from code:
If I remove all spans before setting the new ForegroundColorSpan then I get the desired behavior. Unfortunately, this is a lot more work if an EditText has a lot of text. What I did for a fix: I'm not sure what changed...
You can accomplish this by using a custom theme and setting the following: Or, you can use reflection:
As @CommonsWare pointed out, what you are doing should be OK. It is impossible to guarantee disabled auto-capitalization across all devices. If the user is using a third-party keyboard, like SwiftKey, it may override...