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

to change color of the text label when you are focusing on it. i.e. typing in it. you have to add specify

@color/yourcolorhere

Just a note: You have to add all these implementations to your main theme.