Custom cursor color in SearchView

Question

I want to change the color of the blinking cursor in a SearchView in the Actionbar (I\'m using Actionbar Sherlock for compatibility). Until now I\'ve managed to change the c

Answer 1

I just found a solution that works. I replaces the

<style name="edittext_style" parent="@android:style/Widget.EditText">
    <item name="android:textCursorDrawable">@drawable/red_cursor</item>
</style>

with

<style name="SearchViewStyle" parent="Widget.Sherlock.Light.SearchAutoCompleteTextView">
    <item name="android:textCursorDrawable">@drawable/red_cursor</item>
</style>

and modified my theme so that it looks like this:

<style name="CustomTheme" parent="Theme.Sherlock.Light">
    ...
    <item name="searchAutoCompleteTextView">@style/SearchViewStyle</item>
    ...
</style>