Change TextColor in SearchView using Android Toolbar

Question

I have the following problem. I\'ve setup my Actionbar to use a Toolbar instead using the API 21 with the appcompat-v7:21. The textColorPrimary style tag is con

Answer 1

This is possible to do purely in XML using a ThemeOverlay:

And then in your layout file:

If you also want it to apply to activities that are using an ActionBar instead of a ToolBar, you can add this to the Activity's theme: