How to change android button text color globally in theme

Question

How can I change all my buttons text color?

I know I can set the background color like follows :

<style name="AppTheme.Base" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
    ...
    <item name="colorButtonNormal">@color/buttonColor</item>
</style>

How can I do this for the button Text?

Mirk

Check this – Epidiascope

Answer 1

 <style name="AppTheme.Base" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
   <item name="android:textColor">#yourcolor</item>
    <item name="android:buttonStyle">@style/ButtonColor</item>
    <item name="colorButtonNormal">@color/buttonColor</item>
</style>



<style name="ButtonColor" parent="@android:style/Widget.Button">
   <item name="android:textColor">@color/yourcolor</item>
</style> 

android:textColor This should help you change the text color globally.

Etherege

Will this only be for buttons? or editText and textView – Mirk

i have edited the code. this code will only apply for button's. The older one , apply's for all. ThankYou. I hope this was helpful. – Etherege

Works, but use @style/Widget.AppCompat.Button as the parent style for ButtonColor to get Material Design AppCompat style. – Idette

in this answer <item name="android:textColor">#yourcolor</item> seam to not only apply to button but also to everything – Kickapoo

Answer 2

With the new Theme.MaterialComponents theme you can define the materialButtonStyle attribute in your app theme, to customize globally the style of all buttons in your app.

  <!-- Base application theme. -->
  <style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.MaterialComponents.Light">
       <!-- .... --> 
       <item name="materialButtonStyle">@style/Widget.App.Button</item>
  </style>

With

<style name="Widget.App.Button" parent="Widget.Material3.Button">
    <!-- button style customization example -->
    <item name="materialThemeOverlay">@style/ThemeOverlay.App.Button</item>
    <item name="android:textAppearance">@style/TextAppearance.App.Button</item>
    <item name="shapeAppearance">@style/ShapeAppearance.App.SmallComponent</item>
</style>

Use Widget.MaterialComponents.Button as parent if you are using Material2 theme.

If you would like to override only some attributes like colors from the default style use the materialThemeOverlay attribute.

Something like:

  <style name="Widget.App.Button" parent="Widget.Material3.Button">
    <item name="materialThemeOverlay">@style/ThemeOverlay.App.Button</item>
  </style>

  <style name="ThemeOverlay.App.Button">
    <!-- For filled buttons, your theme's colorPrimary provides the default background color of the component, and -->
    <!--the text color is colorOnPrimary -->
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/my_color</item>
    <item name="colorOnPrimary">@color/my_color2</item>
    
  </style>

Fenn

works like magic. – Aquinas

Answer 3

If you just need to change the text colour of buttons. You can modify the textAppearanceButton style attribute of your main theme.

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
    <item name="colorButtonNormal">@color/buttonColor</item>
    <item name="android:textAppearanceButton">@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Button.Custom</item>
</style>

And declare your new textAppearance style as follows

<style name="TextAppearance.AppCompat.Button.Custom">
    <item name="android:textColor">@color/mycustomcolor</item>
</style>

Danika

Answer 4

For anyone that stumbles onto this, I recommend checking out a similar question about Material Design Button Styles. With a theme, your "accent color" will be used to color your button.

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
    ...
    <item name="android:buttonStyle">@style/Widget.AppCompat.Button.Colored</item>
    <item name="buttonStyle">@style/Widget.AppCompat.Button.Colored</item>
</style>

Obelize

Answer 5

Since MaterialComponents Buttons use colorPrimary by default you can simply set colorOnPrimary in your theme when using Theme.MaterialComponents.Light, don't know if it's the same with Material3.

<resources>
    <!-- Base application theme. -->
    <style name="Base.Theme.MyApplication" parent="Theme.MaterialComponents.Light">
        <!-- Customize your light theme here. -->
        ...
        <item name="colorOnPrimary">@color/colorOnPrimary</item>
    </style>

    <style name="Theme.MyApplication" parent="Base.Theme.MyApplication" />
</resources>

Flightless

Answer 6

Just using AppCompatButton by setting this attribute :

"app:backgroundTint="@color/wildberries"

And make sure your activity extends AppCompatActivity. I just use it in my project. It works like a charm in both 5.X and pre-5.X.

Belldas

This doesn't change the colour of the buttons' text. – Handcart

Answer 7

<Button  
     app:backgroundTint="#fece2f" //any color
 />

This is best way if you don't want it to be defined globally

Thermion

This doesn't change the colour of the buttons' text. – Handcart