Can I get the default hint color of an EditText?

Question

Is there a way to get the hint color from an EditText?

I need the color to set it as the text color of the EditText too

Answer 1

I guess you could use this:

final ColorStateList colors = editText.getHintTextColors();
editText.setTextColor(colors);

Note that hint color is actually a ColorStateList.

Answer 2

Late response (but worth it). You can use:

<EditText
    ...
    android:textColor="?android:attr/textColorHint" />

Answer 3

You can make use of the getHintTextColors() API. Check this documentation.