How to reference `android:colorBackground` in XML using Material Components

Question

I have an app with several skins. In one skin i define android:colorBackground and then I want to set this color in an XML layout as ViewGroup background color. How do I do it? Is it possible? Or it is some attribute used by the system only?

<style name="SkinDefault" parent="@style/_SkinXYZ">
    <item name="android:colorBackground">@color/skin_default_color_background</item>
    <item name="colorOnBackground">@color/skin_default_color_on_background</item>
</style>

Hyaena

Answer 1

Ran into this problem myself, colorOnBackground and the other Material Components colors can be referenced with ?attr/colorOnBackground. But in order to reference android:colorBackground you will have to preface with android like this ?android:attr/colorBackground

Argillite

Answer 2

this also worked for me

android:textColor="?attr/android:colorBackground"

Visakhapatnam