Android 8.0 Oreo crash on focusing TextInputEditText

Question

After updating some of our devices to android 8.0 , upon focusing on a TextInputEditText field inside of a TextInputLayout, the app crashes with th

Answer 1

I used the v26/themes.xml to override the EditText style autofill only for Oreo 8.0.0:

Note that I had to apply the style inline for each EditText in my layout xml for it to take effect. I tried to apply this change globally in my app theme but it didn't work for some reason.

// HAD TO DO THIS IN LAYOUT XML FOR EACH EDIT TEXT



// THIS DIDN'T TAKE EFFECT IN THEMES XML (HAS BEEN ADDED TO MANIFEST)