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

@Luke Simpson is right. You can use it in themes.XML like:-

@style/AppEditTextStyle

and then put

in V26/app_styles.xml

But, I had to put empty tag also in app_styles.xml in the default folder. Otherwise, all the properties of Edit text were getting overriding by this and my edit text was not working properly. And when you put importantForAutoFill property for v26 and you want autofill to work in 8.1, you can simply put

So, autofill property works in 8.1. It will be disabled just for 8.0 as the crash is hapenning in 8.0 and it has already been fixed in 8.1.