I would like to use the default checkbox in my app, but I only want the checkbox color to change to red when checked. I tried buttonTint, but it makes the box red when unchecked so that doesn't work.
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- 1stackoverflow.com/questions/5854047/… check this outBR89– BR892016-07-08 16:51:38 +00:00Commented Jul 8, 2016 at 16:51
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A relatively easy way to do this would be to apply a theme just to your checkbox. Essentially you would add a style to your styles.xml resource file kind of like the below. Doing it this way you can even give a custom color to your checkbox when it is unchecked. However you can leave off the android:textColorSecondary if you would like to just use the black default checkbox.
styles.xml
//main style above add this below. <style name="RedCheckbox"> <item name="colorAccent">#FF0000</item> //color when checked <item name="android:textColorSecondary>#00FFFF</item> //color when unchecked. </style> Then you would need to apply this to your checkbox.
<CheckBox //rest of your checkbox setup android:theme="@style/RedCheckbox" //this is the important line. /> You don't need to do anything programmatically it will simply change on the different states. This would be the result:
UNCHECKED
CHECKED
