Android Material AppCompat edit text colouring

The new TextInputLayout is a freaking madness to customize with so many states and conditions. This repo contains the examples I did to figure out some of the styles. Font is not custom (see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30765287/change-font-of-the-floating-label-edittext-and-textinputlayout). Most helpful was http://stackoverflow.com/a/26715076/172690.