How to write style to error text of EditText in android?

Question

I\'m trying to write new custom style for my android application. I need to give style to errorText which appears after setting setError in EditText

Answer 1

I don't think you can customize its style that way since the error popup uses an internal style:

mPopupInlineErrorBackgroundId = getResourceId(mPopupInlineErrorBackgroundId,
                    com.android.internal.R.styleable.Theme_errorMessageBackground);
mView.setBackgroundResource(mPopupInlineErrorBackgroundId);

However, you can set a Spanned and a custom error icon using the overloaded setError(CharSequence, Drawable).

You can easily create a Spanned from HTML using fromHtml().

However, you still won't be able to set the popup background image :-(