MenuItem tinting on AppCompat Toolbar

Question

When I use drawables from the AppCompat library for my Toolbar menu items the tinting works as expected. Like this:

Answer 1

Here is the solution that I use; you can call it after onPrepareOptionsMenu() or the equivalent place. The reason for mutate() is if you happen to use the icons in more than one location; without the mutate, they will all take on the same tint.

public class MenuTintUtils {
    public static void tintAllIcons(Menu menu, final int color) {
        for (int i = 0; i < menu.size(); ++i) {
            final MenuItem item = menu.getItem(i);
            tintMenuItemIcon(color, item);
            tintShareIconIfPresent(color, item);
        }
    }

    private static void tintMenuItemIcon(int color, MenuItem item) {
        final Drawable drawable = item.getIcon();
        if (drawable != null) {
            final Drawable wrapped = DrawableCompat.wrap(drawable);
            drawable.mutate();
            DrawableCompat.setTint(wrapped, color);
            item.setIcon(drawable);
        }
    }

    private static void tintShareIconIfPresent(int color, MenuItem item) {
        if (item.getActionView() != null) {
            final View actionView = item.getActionView();
            final View expandActivitiesButton = actionView.findViewById(R.id.expand_activities_button);
            if (expandActivitiesButton != null) {
                final ImageView image = (ImageView) expandActivitiesButton.findViewById(R.id.image);
                if (image != null) {
                    final Drawable drawable = image.getDrawable();
                    final Drawable wrapped = DrawableCompat.wrap(drawable);
                    drawable.mutate();
                    DrawableCompat.setTint(wrapped, color);
                    image.setImageDrawable(drawable);
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

This won't take care of the overflow, but for that, you can do this:

Layout:

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
    ...
    android:theme="@style/myToolbarTheme" />

Styles:

<style name="myToolbarTheme">
        <item name="colorControlNormal">#FF0000</item>
</style>

This works as of appcompat v23.1.0.

Answer 2

This worked for me:

override fun onCreateOptionsMenu(menu: Menu?): Boolean {

        val inflater = menuInflater
        inflater.inflate(R.menu.player_menu, menu)

        //tinting menu item:
        val typedArray = theme.obtainStyledAttributes(IntArray(1) { android.R.attr.textColorSecondary })
        val textColor = typedArray.getColor(0, 0)
        typedArray.recycle()

        val item = menu?.findItem(R.id.action_chapters)
        val icon = item?.icon

        icon?.setColorFilter(textColor, PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_IN);
        item?.icon = icon
        return true
    }

Or you can use tint in drawable xml:

<vector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:width="24dp"
    android:height="24dp"
    android:tint="?android:textColorSecondary"
    android:viewportWidth="384"
    android:viewportHeight="384">
    <path
        android:fillColor="#FF000000"

        android:pathData="M0,277.333h384v42.667h-384z" />
    <path
        android:fillColor="#FF000000"
        android:pathData="M0,170.667h384v42.667h-384z" />
    <path
        android:fillColor="#FF000000"
        android:pathData="M0,64h384v42.667h-384z" />
</vector>