 <p>Try attribute <code>colorControlActivated</code>:</p> <p>themes.xml</p> <p></p> <pre><code>&lt;style name="CET" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar"&gt; &lt;item name="windowActionBar"&gt;false&lt;/item&gt; &lt;item name="colorPrimary"&gt;@color/primary&lt;/item&gt; &lt;item name="colorPrimaryDark"&gt;@color/primary_dark&lt;/item&gt; &lt;item name="colorAccent"&gt;@color/accent&lt;/item&gt; &lt;item name="colorControlActivated"&gt;#a32b30&lt;/item&gt; &lt;/style&gt; </code></pre> <p></p>