How to customize the “up” button when the searchView is being expanded?

Question

Background

My app has the ability to search for items (which are other apps) using the SearchView on the ActionBar.

The app uses the support library of Google,

Answer 1

It seems like a known issue: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=78346 .

workaround is here: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=78346#c5 , meaning:

values-21/themes.xml:

That's it. Hope it gets fixed later.

In order to customize it, I assume I can use it, and also choose the color using "colorControlNormal"