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The checkbox border is invisible on white background.

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I played with different color parameters without success. I need black border of box. Yes, there examples to make custom checkbox. In all drawable examples the normal box is visible inside of new shape. And the drawable shape is narrow without text in android:text="".

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But why checkbox does not look okay in usual xml:

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:id="@+id/layoutBottom1" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:orientation="horizontal" android:background="#FFFFFF" android:gravity="center" > <CheckBox android:id="@+id/checkBottom1" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="AAAA" android:visibility="visible" android:textColor="#000000" android:checked="true" /> </LinearLayout>

Any ideas? Thanks!

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You can use the property

android:buttonTint="what you want" to set your checkbox border color.

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This also sets the inside of the checkbox. Not what you want!
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It's too late to answer but I would like to share what worked for me. Paste below code. It would change the CheckBox border color and textColor

styles.xml

<style name="MyCheckBox" parent="Theme.AppCompat.NoActionBar"> <item name="colorControlNormal">#000</item> <!-- normal border color change as you wish --> <item name="colorControlActivated">#000</item> <!-- activated color change as you wish --> <item name="android:textColor">#FFFF3F3C</item> <!-- checkbox text color --> </style>

now in your main_activity.xml place below CheckBox code

<CheckBox android:id="@+id/check_agree" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_margin="10dp" android:text="I agree" android:theme="@style/MyCheckBox"/> <!-- here apply your checkbox style -->

if above style not working then replace parent theme parent="Theme.AppCompat.NoActionBar" with parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light". Hope it would work.

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It worked for me only if I inserted style items inside my main app style. Anyway, thanks!
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Did you try going through here, here and here?
And as per answering your question 

But why checkbox does not look okay in usual xml

Thats because sometimes, the android graphical view is not able to render the custom views, in that case you need to run the code on the emulator or the device to test it out.

UPDATE In case you dont want to use drawables, then you can also define the drawable shape in xml like

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" > <solid android:color="#ffffff" > </solid> <stroke android:width="2dp" android:color="#ff0000" > </stroke> <corners android:radius="5dp" /> <padding android:bottom="4dp" android:left="4dp" android:right="4dp" android:top="4dp" /> </shape>
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In IntelliJ Idea's preview it looks okay. But not visible on Emulator and device. In your references they change check mark color. But I'd like to change box border color
So you will need to have a slice for the box border. Slice as in an image which you would place in the drawable folder.
thanks, but not understood. What do you mean as a slice?
Slice as in an image which you would place in the drawable folder. Anyway forget that, and check my updated answer. Also take a look at this.
I got text inside of text box trying your example. No. I need usual box with visible border.
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You can use either of them:

app:buttonTint="color code here"

or 

android:buttonTint="color code here"
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None of the answers above worked for me, but this one did. It suggests using a selector and applying it to the checkbox, which worked perfectly for me.

This does not explain the odd look of the checkbox as shown above, which is why I wouldn't mark this question as a duplicate, but I think it still works as a solution.

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For API level < 21 you can use :

app:buttonTint="EEEEEE"

For API level >= 21 you can use :

android:buttonTint="EEEEEE"
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