How to remove underline below EditText indicator? [duplicate]

Answer 1

I had the same issue as shown in the screenshot of the OP. The solutions described in accepted answer just remove the underline which you wanted to customize. It would be ok to inherit the style from Widget.AppCompat.EditText but not theme. The fix is to remove inheritance from your CustomEditText:

<style name="CustomEditText"><!-- parent removed -->
    <item name="colorControlNormal">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
    <item name="colorControlActivated">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
    <item name="colorControlHighlight">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
</style>

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Answer 2

If you are using the material components TextInputLayout, setting the background color to something else doesn't remove the underline, the solution is to set the BoxBackgroundMode like this (kotlin): myTextInputLayout.boxBackgroundMode = TextInputLayout.BOX_BACKGROUND_NONE

or in xml: app:boxBackgroundMode="none"

I think that this change on the component was made to make the underline 'work' with a custom background color

Answer 3

setColorFilter() does not work on API levels 5 and below. One way is to use setBackgroundColor(TRANSPARENT color) & use clearColorFilter() to remove it.

Answer 4

Use edittext.clearComposingText(); before getText() or in .xml you can use android:inputType="text|textNoSuggestions"

Answer 5

Make background like this android:background="@null" of your editText

Answer 6

If android:background="@null" doesn't help - try to combine it with android:inputType="text|textNoSuggestions"

The full view:

    <EditText
      android:layout_width="match_parent"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"
      android:background="@null"
      android:inputType="text|textNoSuggestions" />