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

This may help It worked for me

Go to activity_"navigation activity name".xml Inside NavigationView insert this code

app:itemTextColor="color of your choice"

Answer 2

 <android.support.design.widget.NavigationView
        android:id="@+id/navigation_view"
        android:background="#000"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_gravity="start"
        app:headerLayout="@layout/header"
        app:itemTextColor="your color"
        app:menu="@menu/drawer" />

Answer 3

Use app:itemIconTint in your NavigationView, ej:

<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:itemTextColor="@color/customColor"
    app:itemIconTint="@color/customColor"
    android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
    app:headerLayout="@layout/nav_header_home"
    app:menu="@menu/activity_home_drawer" />

Answer 4

 <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:itemBackground="@drawable/drawer_item_bg"
        app:headerLayout="@layout/nav_header_home"
        app:menu="@menu/app_home_drawer" />

To set Item Background using app:itemBackground

drawer_item_bg.xml

<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item>
        <shape android:shape="rectangle" >
            <solid android:color="@android:color/transparent" />
        </shape>
    </item>
    <item android:top="-2dp" android:right="-2dp" android:left="-2dp">
        <shape>
            <padding android:bottom="0dp" android:left="15dp" android:right="0dp" android:top="0dp"/>
            <solid android:color="@android:color/transparent" />
            <stroke
                android:width="0.5dp"
                android:color="#CACACA" />
        </shape>
    </item>
</layer-list>

Answer 5

You can do simply by adding your theme to your navigation View.

    <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"
    android:background="@color/colorPrimary"
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme.NavigationView"
    app:headerLayout="@layout/nav_header_drawer"
    app:menu="@menu/activity_drawer_drawer"/>

and in your style.xml file, you will add this theme

   <style name="AppTheme.NavigationView" >
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/text_color_changed_onClick</item>
    <item name="android:textColorPrimary">@color/Your_default_text_color</item>
</style>

Answer 6

to change text color of Navigation Drawer

we use app:itemTextColor="@color/white"

to change incon color of navigation Drawer

use app:itemIconTint="@color/black"

    <com.google.android.material.navigation.NavigationView
        android:id="@+id/naView"
        app:itemIconTint="@color/black"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        app:menu="@menu/navmenu"
        app:itemTextColor="@color/white"
        app:headerLayout="@layout/nav_header"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        app:itemTextAppearance="?android:textAppearanceMedium"
        android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
        android:layout_gravity="start"
        />