How to change color in Material Components PROGRAMMATICALLY on Android?

Issue

I'm looking for a solution to change the color of some Android Material Components layout objects. How can I change the color of text or borders in a Material Button programmatically? All functions like MaterialButton.setTexColor() do not work. Same thing for the StrokeColor. The change must be made logically, directly from code. No XML styles, colors must be able to change in live, based on values read from a database.

Things like these don't work :

//renewSetDate is a Material Button Object
renewSetDate.strokeColor = ColorStateList.valueOf(Color.RED)
renewSetDate.setTextColor(Color.WHITE)

This is the XML Layout for the Material Button

<com.google.android.material.button.MaterialButton
                        android:id="@+id/addSubs_btnSet_date"
                        style="@style/Widget.MaterialComponents.Button.OutlinedButton"
                        android:layout_width="0dp"
                        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                        android:layout_marginStart="15dp"
                        android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
                        android:layout_marginEnd="15dp"
                        android:text="Imposta data di rinnovo abbonamento"
                        android:textAlignment="center"
                        android:textColor="#FFFFFF"
                        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
                        app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.0"
                        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
                        app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@+id/addSubs_detailTitle"
                        app:strokeColor="@color/colorAccent" />

Colors must be read from templates saved in a database. I can't create an XML Style for each of the template.

I find it really annoying to have to change the layout colors only by who knows what attributes in an XML template.

These are the dependencies

dependencies {
    implementation fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
    implementation "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk7:$kotlin_version"
    implementation 'androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.1.0'
    implementation 'androidx.core:core-ktx:1.1.0'
    implementation 'androidx.constraintlayout:constraintlayout:1.1.3'
    implementation 'androidx.recyclerview:recyclerview:1.0.0'
    implementation 'androidx.cardview:cardview:1.0.0'
    implementation 'androidx.viewpager2:viewpager2:1.0.0-rc01'
    implementation 'androidx.legacy:legacy-support-v4:1.0.0'
    implementation 'com.google.android.material:material:1.0.0'
    testImplementation 'junit:junit:4.12'
    androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test.ext:junit:1.1.1'
    androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test.espresso:espresso-core:3.2.0'

Solution

Not sure if this was completely answered yet or not.

I was having the same issue and I ended up doing:

button.strokeColor = ColorStateList.valueOf(Color.RED)
button.strokeWidth = 1

And that worked for me.

Answered By - jakepurple13