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

add app:itemTextColor="#fff" in your NavigationView like

 <android.support.design.widget.NavigationView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    app:menu="@menu/slider_menu"
    android:background="@color/colorAccent"
    app:itemTextColor="#fff"
    android:id="@+id/navigation_view"
    android:layout_gravity="start"/>

Answer 2

NavigationView has a method called setItemTextColor(). It uses a ColorStateList.

// FOR NAVIGATION VIEW ITEM TEXT COLOR
int[][] state = new int[][] {
        new int[] {-android.R.attr.state_enabled}, // disabled
        new int[] {android.R.attr.state_enabled}, // enabled
        new int[] {-android.R.attr.state_checked}, // unchecked
        new int[] { android.R.attr.state_pressed}  // pressed

};

int[] color = new int[] {
        Color.WHITE,
        Color.WHITE,
        Color.WHITE,
        Color.WHITE
};

ColorStateList csl = new ColorStateList(state, color);


// FOR NAVIGATION VIEW ITEM ICON COLOR
int[][] states = new int[][] {
        new int[] {-android.R.attr.state_enabled}, // disabled
        new int[] {android.R.attr.state_enabled}, // enabled
        new int[] {-android.R.attr.state_checked}, // unchecked
        new int[] { android.R.attr.state_pressed}  // pressed

};

int[] colors = new int[] {
        Color.WHITE,
        Color.WHITE,
        Color.WHITE,
        Color.WHITE
};

ColorStateList csl2 = new ColorStateList(states, colors);

Here is where I got that answer. And then right after assigning my NavigationView:

if (nightMode == 0) {
            navigationView.setItemTextColor(csl);
            navigationView.setItemIconTintList(csl2);
        }

Answer 3

You can use drawables in

app:itemTextColor app:itemIconTint

then you can control the checked state and normal state using a drawable

<android.support.design.widget.NavigationView
            android:id="@+id/nav_view"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:layout_gravity="start"
            app:itemHorizontalPadding="@dimen/margin_30"
            app:itemIconTint="@drawable/drawer_item_color"
            app:itemTextColor="@drawable/drawer_item_color"
            android:theme="@style/NavigationView"
            app:headerLayout="@layout/nav_header"
            app:menu="@menu/drawer_menu">

drawer_item_color.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item android:color="@color/selectedColor" android:state_checked="true" />
    <item android:color="@color/normalColor" />
</selector>

Answer 4

I used below code to change Navigation drawer text color in my app.

NavigationView navigationView = (NavigationView) findViewById(R.id.nav_view);
navigationView.setItemTextColor(ColorStateList.valueOf(Color.WHITE));

Answer 5

This works for me. in place of customTheme you can put you theme in styles. in this code you can also change the font and text size.

    <style name="MyTheme.NavMenu" parent="CustomTheme">
            <item name="android:textSize">16sp</item>
            <item name="android:fontFamily">@font/ssp_semi_bold</item>
            <item name="android:textColorPrimary">@color/yourcolor</item>
        </style>

here is my navigation view

<android.support.design.widget.NavigationView
        android:id="@+id/navigation_view"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_gravity="start"
        android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
        app:theme="@style/MyTheme.NavMenu"
        app:headerLayout="@layout/nav_header_main"
        app:menu="@menu/activity_main_drawer">

        <include layout="@layout/layout_update_available"/>

    </android.support.design.widget.NavigationView>

Answer 6

try this in java class

yourNavigationView.setItemTextColor(new ColorStateList(
            new int [] [] {
                    new int [] {android.R.attr.state_pressed},
                    new int [] {android.R.attr.state_focused},
                    new int [] {}
            },
            new int [] {
                    Color.rgb (255, 128, 192),
                    Color.rgb (100, 200, 192),
                    Color.WHITE
            }
    ));