How to change the floating label color of TextInputLayout

Question

With reference to the new TextInputLayout released by Google, how do I change the floating label text color?

Setting colorControlNormal,

Answer 1

Ok, so, I found this answer very helpful and thanks to all the people who contributed. Just to add something, though. The accepted answer is indeed the correct answer...BUT...in my case, I was looking to implement the error message below the EditText widget with app:errorEnabled="true" and this single line made my life difficult. it seems that this overrides the theme I chose for android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout, which has a different text color defined by android:textColorPrimary.

In the end I took to applying a text color directly to the EditText widget. My code looks something like this:

styles.xml

@color/my_yellow
@color/my_yellow_dark
@color/my_yellow_dark
@android:color/white
@color/dark_gray
@color/light_gray
true
false
@color/dark_gray
@android:color/black
@android:color/white

And my widget:

Now it displays black text color instead of the textColorPrimary white.