android AppCompat v22.1.0 button styling -

problem: cant set style buttons correctly

source devilishly simple:

styles.xml:

<style name="apptheme" parent="theme.appcompat.light.darkactionbar">     <item name="colorprimary">#ff00ff</item>     <item name="colorsecondary">#00ffff</item>     <item name="colorcontrolnormal">#ff0000</item>     <item name="android:textcolor">#0030ff</item>     <item name="android:textcolorprimary">#00ff00</item>     <item name="android:textcolorsecondary">#800080</item> </style> 

layout (applied appcompatactivity):

<textview     android:layout_width="wrap_content"     android:layout_height="wrap_content"     android:text="textview"/>  <button     android:layout_width="wrap_content"     android:layout_height="wrap_content"     android:text="button"     />  <checkbox     android:layout_width="wrap_content"     android:layout_height="wrap_content"     /> 

manifest:

 <application     android:theme="@style/apptheme" > 

problem 1 is: colorcontrolnormal doesn't affect button (but affects checkbox). how can apply color buttons?

problem 2 is: android:textcolorprimary attribute sets color button text, attribute android:textcolor overlaps it, setting color both textview , button texts. how can set them separately?

you can set default button color adding line theme.

<item name="colorbuttonnormal">@color/your_color</item> 

it works on both pre-lollipop , lollipop.