Changing text color of menu item in navigation drawer

Question

I\'m trying to add a night theme for my app and I\'ve wasted nearly three hours just trying to make the text and icons in my navigation drawer turn white along with the dark

Answer 1

In my case, I needed to change the color of just one menu item - "Logout". I had to run a recursion and changed the title color:

NavigationView nvDrawer;
Menu menu = nvDrawer.getMenu();
    for (int i = 0; i < menu.size(); i ++){
        MenuItem menuItem = menu.getItem(i);

        if (menuItem.getTitle().equals("Logout")){

            SpannableString spanString = new SpannableString(menuItem.getTitle().toString());
            spanString.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(getResources().getColor(R.color.red)), 0, spanString.length(), 0);
            menuItem.setTitle(spanString);

        }

    }

I did this in the Activity's onCreate method.

Answer 2

In Future if anyone comes here using, Navigation Drawer Activity (provided by Studio in Activity Prompt window)

The answer is -

Use this before OnCreate() in MainActivity

int[][] state = new int[][] {
        new int[] {android.R.attr.state_checked}, // checked
        new int[] {-android.R.attr.state_checked}
};

int[] color = new int[] {
        Color.rgb(255,46,84),
        (Color.BLACK)
};

ColorStateList csl = new ColorStateList(state, color);

int[][] state2 = new int[][] {
        new int[] {android.R.attr.state_checked}, // checked
        new int[] {-android.R.attr.state_checked}
};

int[] color2 = new int[] {
        Color.rgb(255,46,84),
        (Color.GRAY)
};

ColorStateList csl2 = new ColorStateList(state2, color2);

and use this in onNavigationItemSelected() in MainActivity (you dont need to Write this function if you use Navigation Drawer activity, it will be added in MainActivity).

 NavigationView nav = (NavigationView) findViewById(R.id.nav_view);
    nav.setItemTextColor(csl);
    nav.setItemIconTintList(csl2);
    nav.setItemBackgroundResource(R.color.white);

Tip - add this code before If else Condition in onNavigationItemSelected()

Answer 3

To change the individual text color of a single item, use a SpannableString like below:

SpannableString spannableString = new SpannableString("Menu item"));
        spannableString.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(getResources().getColor(R.color.colorPrimary)), 0, spannableString.length(), 0);

menu.findItem(R.id.nav_item).setTitle(spannableString);

Answer 4

You can also define a custom theme that is derived from your base theme:

<android.support.design.widget.NavigationView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_gravity="start"
        android:id="@+id/nav_view"
        app:headerLayout="@layout/nav_view_header"
        app:menu="@layout/nav_view_menu"
        app:theme="@style/MyTheme.NavMenu" />

and then in your styles.xml file:

  <style name="MyTheme.NavMenu" parent="MyTheme.Base">
    <item name="android:textColorPrimary">@color/yourcolor</item>
  </style>

you can also apply more attributes to the custom theme.

Answer 5

itemIconTint, if u want to change icon color

android.support.design.widget.NavigationView
            android:id="@+id/nav_view"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:layout_gravity="start"
            android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
            app:itemTextColor="@color/colorPrimary"
            app:itemIconTint="@color/colorPrimary"
            app:headerLayout="@layout/nav_header_main"
            app:menu="@menu/activity_main_drawer" />

Answer 6

More options:

you can also change the group title by overriding "textColorSecondary"

In your styles.xml

<style name="AppTheme.NavigationView">
    <item name="android:textColorSecondary">#FFFFFF</item>
</style>

In your layout

<android.support.design.widget.NavigationView
    android:id="@+id/nav_view"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_gravity="start"
    android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
    app:menu="@menu/activity_main_menu_drawer_drawer"
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme.NavigationView"
    app:itemIconTint="@color/colorPrimary"
    app:itemTextColor="@color/white"/>