Change android EditText style from rectangular border to underscore

Question

In one of my activities, my EditText views used to look like this

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But now they looks like this

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I need help changing it back: from the rectangle to the underscore.

BACKGROUND

Because I needed to create a custom ActionBar, I had to change the theme of the activity in question, YesterdayActivity, using the following

Style:

<style name="CustomWindowTitleBackground">
        <item name="android:background">#323331</item>
    </style>

    <style name="CustomTheme" parent="android:Theme">
        <item name="android:windowTitleSize">40dip</item>
        <item name="android:windowTitleBackgroundStyle">@style/CustomWindowTitleBackground</item>
    </style>

Manifest:

  <activity
        android:name="com.example.YesterdayActivity"
        android:theme="@style/CustomTheme">
    </activity>

onCreate:

@Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_CUSTOM_TITLE);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_yesterday);
        getWindow().setFeatureInt(Window.FEATURE_CUSTOM_TITLE, R.layout.yesterday_title_bar);
…
}

I just want to return to the default look like keeping my custom actionBar. If build a simple android app with an EditText, the first image is the default look, which is what I want. — Cote Mounyo, Jul 12 '13 at 05:59
For more background on the question see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17605282/center-title-of-activity-in-android-action-bar — Cote Mounyo, Jul 12 '13 at 14:04
Please check this question : http://stackoverflow.com/q/12470487/1237656 — Aswathy P Krishnan, Apr 21 '14 at 10:28
set the theme as ```android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Holo"``` inside your editText — Abdul Rizwan, Sep 27 '16 at 14:22

DjHacktorReborn · Answer 1 · 2013-07-12T14:41:39.637

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Change your custom theme like this

<style name="CustomTheme" parent="android:Theme.Holo.NoActionBar">

because you are not using old android theme not HoLo which has that kinda editTextView

In newer versions of Android, the framework will use the Window.FEATURE_ACTION_BAR feature whenever the Holo theme is selected. The framework throws the exception whenever an app calls setFeatureInt(Window.FEATURE_CUSTOM_TITLE) and FEATURE_ACTION_BAR has already been set. it crashed because Holo uses the ActionBar by default. The fix was simple. Turn the ActionBar off when using Holo

edited Jul 12 '13 at 14:41

answered Jul 12 '13 at 06:34

DjHacktorReborn

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When I change parent it complains about combining custom features with other features. So the app crashes. – Cote Mounyo Jul 12 '13 at 13:58
Thanks for helping. But I don't understand your edit. What is the final code to look like? – Cote Mounyo Jul 12 '13 at 16:20

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 16 '15 at 13:09

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Remove this line from your style

<item name="android:background">#323331</item>

because it is the background attribute that reflects the behaviour.

answered Apr 16 '15 at 13:09

Jivraj S Shekhawat

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

There are two ways to achieve this. First method by changing theme of your application

first method:

AndroidManifest.xml

See android:theme

<application
    android:allowBackup="true"
    android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:supportsRtl="true"
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme">
    ...
    ...
    </application>

res/values/style.xml

Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar makes underlined EditText

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
    <!-- Customize your theme here. -->
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/colorAccent</item>
</style>

Just use EditText in same way

<EditText
      android:layout_width="match_parent"
      android:layout_height="48dp"
      android:hint="Email Address"
      android:inputType="textMultiLine"
      android:textSize="16dp" />

Second method:

Create a shape drawable with bottom stroke and set it as background of EditText

create a drawable file called res/drawable/stroked_edittext_bg.xml said in the below link:

How To Create An Android Shape With Bottom Stroke

<EditText
      android:layout_width="match_parent"
      android:layout_height="48dp"
      android:background="@drawable/stroked_edittext_bg"
      android:hint="Email Address"
      android:inputType="textMultiLine"
      android:textSize="16dp" />

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 27 '16 at 14:24

it can be achieve, if you change the theme for editText.

<EditText
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:inputType="textPersonName"
        android:text="Name"
        android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Holo"
        android:ems="10"
        android:id="@+id/editText"
        android:layout_below="@+id/textView"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true" />

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 08 '18 at 08:06

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<item name="android:windowTitleBackgroundStyle">@style/CustomWindowTitleBackground</item>

Change back it to your default style. Or remove this line from code.

Cause the 1st image you shared that is a default Editext background.

answered Aug 08 '18 at 08:06

Tapan Kumar Patro

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Change android EditText style from rectangular border to underscore

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