Navigation drawer item icon not showing original colour

Question

I\'m trying to show an icon next to an item within my menu for my navigation drawer, but for some reason the icon always appears in grey rather than the original colour (bro

Answer 1

Some how this code not working MainActivity.java

                NavigationView.setItemIconTintList(null); // not working

so you can use it.

MainActivity.java

 NavigationView navigationView = (NavigationView) findViewById(R.id.nav_view);
   navigationView.setNavigationItemSelectedListener(this); 
   navigationView.setItemIconTintList(null); // <-- HERE add this code for icon color

Answer 2

I found the answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/30632980/875249

To avoid the link its pretty straightforward:

    mNavigationView.setItemIconTintList(null);

This disables all state based tinting, but you can also specify your own list too. It worked great for me!

Here is where you can get the details on creating a color state list, but its pretty simple too: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/res/ColorStateList.html

    <selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
        <item android:state_checked="true" android:color="@color/primary" />
        <item android:state_checked="false" android:color="@android:color/white" />
    </selector>

Answer 3

You can try using a tinted drawable, not sure if it works below 5.0.

Create a drawable and add the following code.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<bitmap
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:src="@drawable/ic_browncircle"
    android:tint="@color/brownColor"/>

And then change your menu item drawable to the one you just created. If that doesn't work, then I'm not sure of any other solutions. You can try this library: https://github.com/mikepenz/MaterialDrawer I use it a lot in my projects.