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How to remove the outline from AutoCompleteTextView?

I have a layout with several TextInputEditText fields nested in TextInputLayouts. I also have one dropdown menu using AutoCompleteTextView, also nested in a TextInputLayout. I use a custom background drawable on the fields to create a rounded field. Unfortunately, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get rid of the little outline around the AutoCompleteTextView.
With the TextInputEditText fields, I can eliminate the outlines by setting the background on it. Doing this on the AutoCompleteTextView does nothing, and I have to set it on the parent TextInputLayout to see the background. But yet, the outline remains.
I believe this has something to do with material design (and its styles?) because when you press on the field, the outline turns orange, which is the primary color in our app's theme as set in the styles.xml.
Here is a relevant snippet of the XML layout in question. For comparison, the first part is the city field, and the second is the state field:
<com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout
android:id="#+id/input_city"
style="#style/Widget.MaterialComponents.TextInputLayout.OutlinedBox"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="8dp"
android:visibility="#{viewModel.addDevice.isFinishedWithSettings ? View.INVISIBLE : View.VISIBLE}"
app:endIconMode="clear_text"
app:hintEnabled="false"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="#+id/input_apartment">
<com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputEditText
android:id="#+id/input_city_edit_text"
style="#style/AppFont500.DarkGrey.EditTextHint"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:paddingStart="25dp"
android:paddingEnd="25dp"
android:paddingLeft="25dp"
android:paddingRight="25dp"
android:visibility="#{viewModel.addDevice.isFinishedWithSettings ? View.INVISIBLE : View.VISIBLE}"
android:imeOptions="actionDone"
android:inputType="number"
android:text="#={viewModel.addDevice.city}"
android:hint="#string/hint_city"
android:background="#drawable/rounded_edittext_states"
/>
</com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout>
<com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout
android:id="#+id/input_state"
style="#style/Widget.MaterialComponents.TextInputLayout.OutlinedBox.ExposedDropdownMenu"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="8dp"
android:visibility="#{viewModel.addDevice.isFinishedWithSettings ? View.INVISIBLE : View.VISIBLE}"
app:endIconMode="dropdown_menu"
app:hintEnabled="false"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toStartOf="#id/input_zip_code"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="#+id/input_city"
android:background="#drawable/rounded_edittext_states"
>
<AutoCompleteTextView
android:id="#+id/input_state_edit_text"
style="#style/AppFont500.DarkGrey.EditTextHint"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:paddingStart="25dp"
android:paddingEnd="25dp"
android:paddingLeft="25dp"
android:paddingRight="25dp"
android:layout_marginEnd="4dp"
android:visibility="#{viewModel.addDevice.isFinishedWithSettings ? View.INVISIBLE : View.VISIBLE}"
android:imeOptions="actionDone"
android:inputType="none"
android:text="#={viewModel.addDevice.state}"
android:hint="#string/hint_state"
/>
</com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout>
I believe the key here involves styles and themes. Here are the custom styles and theme used within this snippet:
<style name="AppMaterialTheme" parent="#style/Theme.MaterialComponents.Light.NoActionBar">
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/primaryOrange</item>
<item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
<item name="android:windowActionBar">false</item>
<item name="android:windowFullscreen">true</item>
<item name="android:windowContentOverlay">#null</item>
</style>
<style name="AppFont500">
<item name="fontFamily">#font/poppins_medium_500</item>
</style>
<style name="AppFont500.DarkGrey">
<item name="android:textColor">#color/secondaryDarkGrey</item>
</style>
<style name="AppFont500.DarkGrey.EditTextHint">
<item name="android:textSize">16sp</item>
</style>
The background comes from this selector. It previously had more items, but right now just has one:
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item
android:state_enabled="true"
android:drawable="#drawable/rounded_edittext" />
</selector>
And the drawable:
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:shape="rectangle"
android:padding="10dp">
<solid android:color="#FFFFFF" />
<corners
android:radius="30dp" />
</shape>
Mainly, what I have seen in questions related to outlines around edit texts is to either edit the stroke or boxStroke. I tried both and set them to an invisible value, but it does not change the stroke at all.

Here is how you remove this outline.
In your TextInputLayout XML code add the following snippet:
app:boxStrokeWidth="0dp"

Changing the arrow color material ExposedDropdownMenu / TextInputLayout

I want to change the arrow color to white. how to do it? here's my code
<com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout
style="#style/ExposedDropdownMenu"
android:hint="Select"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<AutoCompleteTextView
android:focusable="false"
android:textSize="17sp"
android:padding="15dp"
android:textColorHint="#color/white"
android:textColor="#color/white"
android:id="#+id/actv_pool"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
tools:ignore="LabelFor" />
</com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout>
here's my style:
<style name="ExposedDropdownMenu" parent="Widget.MaterialComponents.TextInputLayout.OutlinedBox.ExposedDropdownMenu">
<item name="boxStrokeColor">#fff</item>
<item name="boxStrokeWidth">1dp</item>
<item name="android:textColorHint">#fff</item>
</style>
I hope it's clear. thanks in advance.

You can use the app:endIconTint attribute in the layout:
<com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout
...
app:endIconTint="#color/my_selector_color">
or you can use a custom style:
<com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout
style="#style/ExposedDropdownMenu"
...>
with:
<style name="name="ExposedDropdownMenu" parent="Widget.MaterialComponents.TextInputLayout.OutlinedBox.ExposedDropdownMenu">
<item name="endIconTint">#color/my_selector_color</item>
</style>

If you want change drawable, not only color, you can set endIconDrawable. For drawable put a selector xml like this:
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:drawable="#drawable/ic_page_up" android:state_checked="true"/>
<item android:drawable="#drawable/ic_page_down"/>
</selector>

Simply add endIconTint attribute to the TextInputLayout by using
app:endIconTint="#color/primaryDarkColor"
where
#color/primaryDarkColor
is your desired color of choice
Example below with full XML Code
<com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout
android:id="#+id/til_paying_bank"
style = "#style/Widget.MaterialComponents.TextInputLayout.OutlinedBox.ExposedDropdownMenu"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#+id/til_withdrawal_date"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:padding="5dp"
app:endIconTint="#color/primaryDarkColor">
<AutoCompleteTextView
android:id="#+id/actv_paying_bank"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:hint="#string/paying_bank"
android:dropDownSelector="#color/primaryLightColor"
/>
</com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout>

How to remove underline from dropdown menu material design in android

I can't seem to get rid of the black underline from Exposed Dropdown Menu done according to material design guide in my android UI.
The dropdown looks like this:
I have tried setting background to null, transparent or custom shape. app:boxBackgroundMode="none" doesn't work either.
<com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout
android:id="#+id/spinner_age"
style="#style/Widget.MaterialComponents.TextInputLayout.FilledBox.ExposedDropdownMenu"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#drawable/bg_rounded_button"
android:hint="Age">
<AutoCompleteTextView
android:id="#+id/age_dropdown"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#android:color/transparent"/>
</com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout>
Ideally the dropdown would look like a button without the underline. How do I get rid of it?

Please change your this line
android:background="#android:color/transparent"
With
android:background="#00000000"

Make background = null
<AutoCompleteTextView
android:id="#+id/age_dropdown"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#null"/>

just add this line to remove the underline
android:inputType="textNoSuggestions"

Just use the standard style #style/Widget.MaterialComponents.TextInputLayout.FilledBox.ExposedDropdownMenu and
You don't need to use a custom background shape, you can just use the
app:boxCornerRadius* attributes to define the rounded shape.
Something like:
<com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout
style="#style/Widget.MaterialComponents.TextInputLayout.FilledBox.ExposedDropdownMenu"
app:boxCornerRadiusBottomEnd="32dp"
app:boxCornerRadiusTopEnd="32dp"
app:boxCornerRadiusBottomStart="32dp"
app:boxCornerRadiusTopStart="32dp"
app:boxStrokeColor="#color/myselector"
...>
<AutoCompleteTextView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#null"
/>
</com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout>
To change the color of the line under the component, you have to change the app:boxStrokeColor attribute. Just customize the selector as you prefer:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:alpha="0" android:color="?attr/colorOnSurface" android:state_hovered="true"/>
<item android:alpha="0" android:color="?attr/colorOnSurface" android:state_enabled="false"/>
<item android:alpha="0" android:color="?attr/colorOnSurface"/>
</selector>
This is the result:
Pay attention to this note in doc:
Note: When using a filled text field with an EditText child that is not a TextInputEditText, make sure to set the EditText's android:background to #null. This allows TextInputLayout to set a filled background on the EditText.
Alternative:
With the new version 1.1.0 you can also use the shapeAppearanceOverlay attribute to customize the shape of your component.
Just use:
<com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout
style="#style/MyFilledBox_ExposedDropdownMenu
...>
<AutoCompleteTextView
android:background="#null"
... />
</com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout>
and this style:
<!-- Rounded -->
<style name="MyFilledBox_ExposedDropdownMenu" parent="#style/Widget.MaterialComponents.TextInputLayout.FilledBox.ExposedDropdownMenu">
<item name="shapeAppearanceOverlay">#style/ShapeAppearanceOverlay.MyApp.TextInputLayout.Rounded</item>
<item name="boxStrokeColor">#color/myselector</item>
</style>
<style name="ShapeAppearanceOverlay.MyApp.TextInputLayout.Rounded" parent="">
<item name="cornerFamily">rounded</item>
<item name="cornerSize">32dp</item>
</style>

Setting boxStrokeWidth = 0dp would solve it

TextInputLayout password toggle moves text from center

While using TextInputLayout with app:passwordToggleEnabled="true" EditText text gravity isn't centered well as shown in the photo. Any help?
<android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
app:hintEnabled="false"
app:passwordToggleEnabled="true">
<EditText
android:gravity="center"
android:id="#+id/passwordEt"
style="#style/editTextStyle"
android:layout_marginBottom="20dp"
android:hint="#string/password"
android:inputType="textPassword" />
</android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout>
and for the text style
<style name="editTextStyle">
<item name="android:layout_width">match_parent</item>
<item name="android:layout_height">50dp</item>
<item name="android:layout_margin">8dp</item>
<item name="android:background">#drawable/text_fields</item>
<item name="android:padding">15dp</item>
</style>

Just add transparent drawable to the left side of EditText.
<android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
app:passwordToggleEnabled="true">
<EditText
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:drawableLeft="#drawable/ic_password_space"
android:drawableStart="#drawable/ic_password_space"
android:gravity="center" />
</android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout>
For transparent drawable you can use whatever you want with android:width="48dp".
Create drawable resource file #drawable/ic_password_space.xml.
<vector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:width="48dp"
android:height="1dp"
android:viewportWidth="1.0"
android:viewportHeight="1.0">
<path
android:pathData="M"
android:fillColor="#0000"/>
</vector>

Add empty 48dp drawable on both sides of the edit text if you hiding passwordToggle when the editText is empty, Otherwise, the cursor would not be in center initially.
<android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
app:passwordToggleEnabled="true">
<EditText
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:drawableStart="#drawable/ic_password_toggle_space"
android:drawableEnd="#drawable/ic_password_toggle_space"
android:gravity="center" />
for creating empty drawable you can add a blank vector ic_password_toggle_space.xml file in drawable resources:-
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<vector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:width="48dp"
android:height="1dp"
android:viewportWidth="1.0"
android:viewportHeight="1.0">
<path
android:pathData="M"
android:fillColor="#0000"/>
</vector>

Adding left-drawable to inner EditText won't take effect (at least as for support lib. v26.1.0).
Adding left-padding to inner EditText takes some effect, but contents of EditText still won't be centered properly - no matter what value you will use for padding.
The only working solution I found (except subclassing or using 3rd party libs) - is to add negative drawablePadding to EditText. So in xml it will look like:
android:drawablePadding="-48dp"
But it is kind of hacky, because implementation of InputTextLayout might change in future. So use it at your own risk.

Change TextInputLayout focused & unfocused hint color programmatically

I wanted to change the color of hint in TEXT INPUT LAYOUT same when it is in focused or unfocused state.i have two TEXT INPUT LAYOUT fields.Both fields are same color.But it in focused state color appears but in an unfocused state the default grey color appears.i want to keep the color color of hint same in both focused and unfocused state.
<com.example.viveka.snipeid.CustomTextInputLayout
android:id="#+id/input_layout_name"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="15dp"
app:errorEnabled="true"
>
<EditText
android:id="#+id/editEmail"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="40dp"
android:hint="email / snipe id"
android:digits="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.#0123456789"
android:textAllCaps="false"
android:textSize="12sp"
android:layout_marginLeft="-4dp"
android:textColor="#color/lightgray"
android:textColorHint="#color/primary"/>
</com.example.viveka.snipeid.CustomTextInputLayout>
Expected image
what i got
i need to change both fields as same color..

you can simply do that by using the material TextInputLayout and add textColorHint , hintTextColor attributes , this works perfectly
<com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textColorHint="#color/gray"
app:hintTextColor="#color/gray"
>

You can do like this.
android:textColorHint="#FF0000" was EditText's hint color.
If you want the text color as well as the hint color.
You can change android:textColor="#FF0000" in the EditText.
You can add app:errorTextAppearance="#style/text_in_layout_error_hint_Style" to change the error text color.
<com.example.viveka.snipeid.CustomTextInputLayout
android:id="#+id/input_layout_name"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="15dp"
android:textColorHint="#FF0000"
app:errorTextAppearance="#style/text_in_layout_error_hint_Style"
app:hintTextAppearance="#style/text_in_layout_hint_Style"
app:errorEnabled="true">
<EditText
android:id="#+id/editEmail"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="40dp"
android:layout_marginLeft="-4dp"
android:digits="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.#0123456789"
android:hint="email / snipe id"
android:textAllCaps="false"
android:textColor="#FF0000"
android:textColorHint="#color/primary"
android:textSize="12sp"/>
</com.example.viveka.snipeid.CustomTextInputLayout>
The LEFT-TOP hint color depended on app:hintTextAppearance="#style/text_in_layout_hint_Style".
And the style code:
<style name="text_in_layout_hint_Style">
<item name="android:textColor">#FF0000</item>
<item name="android:textSize">12sp</item>
</style>
Add error text style
<style name="text_in_layout_error_hint_Style">
<item name="android:textColor">#00ff00</item>
<item name="android:textSize">12sp</item>
</style>
like this:
Hope to help you.

Create a selector_text_input_layout_hint_color.xml (for example)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:color="#color/colorWhenFocus" android:state_focused="true"/>
<item android:color="#color/colorWhenNotFocus" android:state_focused="false"/>
</selector>
Set in the Text Input Layout with the next attribute:
android:textColorHint="#color/selector_text_input_layout_hint_color"
Thanks to: https://medium.com/#fast3r/this-is-brilliant-martin-thank-you-very-much-6c4a43a65df4
That's all. It works for me ;)

In new material theming, the hint color is a tinted version of the colorOnSurface attribute when unfocused.
When focused it is the colorPrimary