How to change the text color of the error popup for an EditText?

Question

On ICS, when using a theme based upon android:Theme.Light the text in the error popup when using setError(...) is white, as is the background.

I can fix this issue by adding <item name="android:textColorPrimaryInverse">#ff000000</item> to my theme. While this helps I'm a bit worried that by doing that change some other text, that uses textColorPrimaryInverse will turn from white to black and perhaps not be visible. I would rather just change that attribute for the EditText that displays the popup in question or for just that activity.

Clarification

I would like to change a property, preferably the text color, of the popup that displays the error message when the user enters something wrong into an EditText.

Answer 1

You can do it like this:

editText.setError(Html.fromHtml("<font color='red'>Error Message!</font>"));