hintText shim for Appcelerator's Titanium allowing hintText to be colored. Simply call this function after creating each textfield, and pass the option isPswd boolean if you're dealing with a password field.

hintTextShim

// Used to fake hintText coloring to the font color.
// Requires hintText to be defined on the object being passed.
function hintTextShim(uiObject, isPswd) {
	uiObject.objectFocus = function () {
		if (uiObject.value === uiObject.hintText) {
			if (typeof isPswd !== 'undefined' && isPswd === true) {
				uiObject.passwordMask = true;
			}
			uiObject.value = '';
		}
	};
	uiObject.objectBlur = function () {
		if (uiObject.value === '') {
			if (typeof isPswd !== 'undefined' && isPswd === true) {
				uiObject.passwordMask = false;
			}
			uiObject.value = uiObject.hintText;
		}
	};
	uiObject.addEventListener('focus', uiObject.objectFocus);
	uiObject.addEventListener('blur', uiObject.objectBlur);
	uiObject.objectBlur(); // Go ahead and set the default hintText.
}