Removing the background color of an EditText

Question

I have an editText and i want to set its background color to red like this:

 RegistrationCountry.setBackgroundColor(Color.RED);

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Answer 1

You can use

RegistrationCountry.setBackgroundResource(android.R.drawable.editbox_background);

To set the background to the standard background-image.

The problem arises when you call any of the setBackgroundX() methods, as this will replace the current background (i.e. the 'outline'), so when you call setBackgroundColor(Color.RED) you replace the outline with a red color, and then you replace the red with transparency. What you need to do is to replace the red with the original background, as can be done with the line above.