EditText Drawable Tint not possible?

Create a drawable with a bitmap tag like this

drawable_with_tint.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<bitmap
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:src="@drawable/ic_lock"
android:tint="#fff">

</bitmap>

Then you may use the drawable in your edittext

<EditText
android:id="@+id/passwordInput"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:drawableLeft="@drawable/ic_drawable_with_tint"
android:drawablePadding="@dimen/medium_margin_padding"
android:hint="@string/password_text"
android:inputType="textPassword" />

Unfortunately the solution posted by mbelsky needed some very small changes. In order to tint your drawable in your EditText you need to use wrap setTint and setTintMode. The full solution for all API's:

Drawable drawable = getResources().getDrawable(drawableID/mipmapID);
            emailDrawable = DrawableCompat.wrap(emailDrawable);
            DrawableCompat.setTint(emailDrawable,getResources().getColor(R.color.purple));
            DrawableCompat.setTintMode(emailDrawable, PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_IN);
            editText.setCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds(drawable,null,null,null);

Use the wrap, setTint, setTintMode methods from the DrawableCompat class to set tint for drawable programmatically

Drawable drawable = getyourdrawablehere;
drawable = DrawableCompat.wrap(drawable);
DrawableCompat.setTint(drawable, Color.GREEN);
DrawableCompat.setTintMode(drawable, PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_OVER);

And after set the drawable for the editText:

editText.setCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds(drawable, null, null, null);