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

This is simple but the developer gets confused due to multiple views having the same attributes in different configurations/namespaces.

In the case of the TextInputLayout we have every time a different view and with params either with TextInputEditText or directly to TextInputLayout.

I was using all the above fixes: But I found that I was using

                app:textColorHint="@color/textcolor_black"

actually i should be using

                android:textColorHint="@color/textcolor_black"

As an attribute of TextinputLayout

textcolor_black.xml