I\'ve seen some SO questions and they gave some possible methods to achieve what I want. For example:
Use colorControlHighlight attribute in st
The accepted answer is wrong.
The correct way to use is what Liuting mentioned in the comment.
Use colorControlHighlight instead of android:colorControlHighlight for changing the default colorControlHighlight from AppCompat
* Please refer to http://android-developers.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/appcompat-v21-material-design-for-pre.html in the Theming section *