Which theme attribute changes the text color of an EditText's error message

Question

In my form I use setError(\"\") on an EditText field. My Application-Theme extends android:Theme.Holo.
I have manually set an imag

Answer 1

My response works, is in kotlin.

private fun setErrorOnSearchView(searchView: SearchView, errorMessage: String) {
    val id = searchView.context
            .resources
            .getIdentifier("android:id/search_src_text", null, null)
    val editText = searchView.find(id)

    val errorColor = ContextCompat.getColor(this,R.color.red)
    val fgcspan = ForegroundColorSpan(errorColor)
    val builder = SpannableStringBuilder(errorMessage)
    builder.setSpan(fgcspan, 0, errorMessage.length, 0)
    editText.error = builder
}