How to change the color of a CheckBox?

Question

You can change the color directly in XML. Use buttonTint for the box: (as of API level 23)

<CheckBox
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:buttonTint="@color/CHECK_COLOR" />

You can also do this using appCompatCheckbox v7 for older API levels:

<android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatCheckBox 
    android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
    app:buttonTint="@color/COLOR_HERE" /> 

If your minSdkVersion is 21+ use android:buttonTint attribute to update the color of a checkbox:

<CheckBox
  ...
  android:buttonTint="@color/tint_color" />

In projects that use AppCompat library and support Android versions below 21 you can use a compat version of the buttonTint attribute:

<CheckBox
  ...
  app:buttonTint="@color/tint_color" />

In this case if you want to subclass a CheckBox don't forget to use AppCompatCheckBox instead.

PREVIOUS ANSWER:

You can change CheckBoxs drawable using android:button="@drawable/your_check_drawable" attribute.

you can set android theme of the checkbox to get the color you want in your styles.xml add :

<style name="checkBoxStyle" parent="Base.Theme.AppCompat">
    <item name="colorAccent">CHECKEDHIGHLIGHTCOLOR</item>
    <item name="android:textColorSecondary">UNCHECKEDCOLOR</item>
</style>

then in your layout file :

<CheckBox
     android:theme="@style/checkBoxStyle"
     android:id="@+id/chooseItemCheckBox"
     android:layout_width="wrap_content"
     android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>

unlike using android:buttonTint="@color/CHECK_COLOR" this method works under Api 23

Use buttonTint to change color of button and color selector for above 21+ api version.

<android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatCheckBox
                android:id="@+id/check"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                app:buttonTint="@color/checkbox_filter_tint"
                tools:targetApi="21"/>

res/colors/checkbox_filter_tint.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item android:color="@color/light_gray_checkbox"
          android:state_checked="false"/>
    <item android:color="@color/common_red"
          android:state_checked="true"/>
</selector>