How to Change programmatically Edittext Cursor Color in android?

Question

In android we can change the cursor color via:

android:textCursorDrawable=\"@drawable/black_color_cursor\".

How can we do this dynamically?

Answer 1

Inspired from @Jared Rummler and @Oleg Barinov I have crafted solution which works on API 15 also -

public static void setCursorColor(EditText editText, @ColorInt int color) {
    try {
        // Get the cursor resource id
        Field field = TextView.class.getDeclaredField("mCursorDrawableRes");
        field.setAccessible(true);
        int drawableResId = field.getInt(editText);

        // Get the drawable and set a color filter
        Drawable drawable = ContextCompat.getDrawable(editText.getContext(), drawableResId);
        drawable.setColorFilter(color, PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_IN);
        Drawable[] drawables = {drawable, drawable};

        if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT == 15) {
            // Get the editor
            Class drawableFieldClass = TextView.class;
            // Set the drawables
            field = drawableFieldClass.getDeclaredField("mCursorDrawable");
            field.setAccessible(true);
            field.set(editText, drawables);

        } else {
            // Get the editor
            field = TextView.class.getDeclaredField("mEditor");
            field.setAccessible(true);
            Object editor = field.get(editText);
            // Set the drawables
            field = editor.getClass().getDeclaredField("mCursorDrawable");
            field.setAccessible(true);
            field.set(editor, drawables);
        }
    } catch (Exception e) {
        Log.e(LOG_TAG, "-> ", e);
    }
}