Below is a screen shot of a custom edit text field i have in my android app. While you are type a given word, the text for the word you are currently typing highlights in grey and shows the text as black, until you hit the space bar at which time the text turns white as expected. Is there a way to change the color of the highlight and the text that is highlighted?
my edit text xml looks like this
<EditText
android:id="@+id/searchField"
android:layout_width="160dp"
android:layout_height="44dp"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:layout_marginLeft="60dp"
android:background="@null"
android:cursorVisible="true"
android:ems="10"
android:textColor="@color/white"
android:textColorHighlight ="#ff0000"
android:textCursorDrawable="@null" >
</EditText>
the whole layout
<android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:map="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:id="@+id/drawer_layout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" >
<!--
As the main content view, the view below consumes the entire
space available using match_parent in both dimensions.
-->
<RelativeLayout
android:id="@+id/content_frame"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#fff" >
<fragment
android:id="@+id/map"
android:name="com.sapientnitro.inhouse.drop.components.DRPCustomMapFragment"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" />
<ImageButton
android:id="@+id/btn_center_local"
android:layout_width="44dp"
android:layout_height="44dp"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_marginBottom="50dp"
android:layout_marginRight="15dp"
android:background="@drawable/btn_center_on_local_up" />
<RelativeLayout
android:id="@+id/top_bar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="70dp"
android:background="#ddffffff" >
<ImageButton
android:id="@+id/btn_menu"
android:layout_width="40dp"
android:layout_height="40dp"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_marginBottom="10dp"
android:layout_marginRight="12dp"
android:layout_toLeftOf="@+id/btn_search"
android:background="@drawable/btn_menu_up" />
<ImageButton
android:id="@+id/btn_create"
android:layout_width="40dp"
android:layout_height="40dp"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_marginBottom="10dp"
android:layout_marginLeft="12dp"
android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/btn_search"
android:background="@drawable/btn_create_up" />
<ImageButton
android:id="@+id/btn_search"
android:layout_width="40dp"
android:layout_height="40dp"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_marginBottom="10dp"
android:background="@drawable/btn_search_up" />
</RelativeLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:id="@+id/search"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="#ddffffff"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<RelativeLayout
android:id="@+id/search_bar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="70dp"
android:background="#dd00cccb" >
<ImageView
android:id="@+id/searchBox"
android:layout_width="238dp"
android:layout_height="44dp"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:layout_marginLeft="20dp"
android:src="@drawable/search_field" />
<ImageView
android:id="@+id/clear"
android:layout_width="25dp"
android:layout_height="25dp"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:layout_marginLeft="220dp"
android:src="@drawable/btn_clear_field" />
<EditText
android:id="@+id/searchField"
android:layout_width="160dp"
android:layout_height="44dp"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:layout_marginLeft="60dp"
android:background="@null"
android:cursorVisible="true"
android:ems="10"
android:textColor="@color/white"
android:textColorHighlight ="@color/white"
android:textCursorDrawable="@null" >
</EditText>
<TextView
android:id="@+id/cancelBTN"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:layout_marginRight="16dp"
android:textColor="@color/white"
android:textSize="22dp"
android:text="@string/cancel" />
</RelativeLayout>
<ScrollView
android:id="@+id/search_results_container"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:paddingTop="2dp"
android:scrollbars="none" >
<LinearLayout
android:id="@+id/search_results_content"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<RelativeLayout
android:id="@+id/header_artists"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="50dp"
android:background="#dd00cccb" />
<HorizontalScrollView
android:id="@+id/results_artists"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="150dp" />
<RelativeLayout
android:id="@+id/header_followers"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="50dp"
android:background="#dd00cccb" />
<HorizontalScrollView
android:id="@+id/results_followers"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="150dp" />
<RelativeLayout
android:id="@+id/header_places"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="50dp"
android:background="#dd00cccb" />
<HorizontalScrollView
android:id="@+id/results_places"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="150dp" />
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>
</LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
<ListView
android:id="@+id/left_drawer"
android:layout_width="255dp"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_gravity="start"
android:background="#dd00cccb"
android:choiceMode="singleChoice"
android:divider="@android:color/transparent"
android:dividerHeight="0dp"
android:listSelector="@drawable/selector_transparent" />
<ListView
android:id="@+id/right_drawer"
android:layout_width="255dp"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_gravity="end"
android:background="#dd00cccb"
android:choiceMode="singleChoice"
android:divider="@android:color/transparent"
android:dividerHeight="0dp"
android:listSelector="@drawable/selector_transparent" />
</android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout>