Change fill color on vector asset in Android Studio

Question

Android Studio now supports vector assets on 21+ and will generate pngs for lower versions at compile time. I have a vector asset (from the Material Icons) that I want to c

Answer 1

Android studio now supports vectors pre-lollipop. No PNG conversion. You can still change your fill color and it will work.

In you ImageView, use

 app:srcCompat="@drawable/ic_more_vert_24dp"

In your gradle file,

 // Gradle Plugin 2.0+  
 android {  
   defaultConfig {  
     vectorDrawables.useSupportLibrary = true  
   }  
 }  

 compile 'com.android.support:design:23.4.0'

Answer 2

Update: AppCompat support

Other answers suspecting if android:tint will work on only 21+ devices only, AppCompat(v23.2.0 and above) now provides a backward compatible handling of tint attribute.

So, the course of action would be to use AppCompatImageView and app:srcCompat(in AppCompat namespace) instead of android:src(Android namespace).

Here is an example(AndroidX: This is androidx.appcompat.widget.AppCompatImageView ;)):

<android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatImageView
        android:id="@+id/credits_material_icon"
        android:layout_width="20dp"
        android:layout_height="20dp"
        android:layout_marginBottom="8dp"
        android:layout_marginLeft="16dp"
        android:layout_marginStart="16dp"
        android:scaleType="fitCenter"
        android:tint="#ffd2ee"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
        app:srcCompat="@drawable/ic_dollar_coin_stack" />

And don't forget to enable vector drawable support in gradle:

vectorDrawables.useSupportLibrary = true 

Answer 3

Go to you MainActivity.java and below this code
-> NavigationView navigationView = findViewById(R.id.nav_view);
Add single line of code -> navigationView.setItemIconTintList(null);
i.e. the last line of my code

I hope this might solve your problem.

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    private AppBarConfiguration mAppBarConfiguration;
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        Toolbar toolbar = findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
        setSupportActionBar(toolbar);

        DrawerLayout drawer = findViewById(R.id.drawer_layout);
        NavigationView navigationView = findViewById(R.id.nav_view);
        navigationView.setItemIconTintList(null);

Answer 4

If the vectors are not showing individually set colors using fillColor then they may be being set to a default widget parameter.

Try adding app:itemIconTint="@color/lime" to activity_main.xml to set a default color type for the widget icons.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:id="@+id/drawer_layout"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
    tools:openDrawer="start">

    <include
        layout="@layout/app_bar_main"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent" />

    <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:headerLayout="@layout/nav_header_main"
        app:itemIconTint="@color/lime"
        app:menu="@menu/activity_main_drawer" />

</android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout>

VectorDrawable @ developers.android

Answer 5

Add this library to the Gradle to enable color vector drawable in old android Devices.

compile 'com.android.support:palette-v7:26.0.0-alpha1'

and re sync gradle. I think it will solve the problem.

Answer 6

Currently the working soloution is android:fillColor="#FFFFFF"

Nothing worked for me except hard coding in the vector

<vector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:width="24dp"
    android:height="24dp"
    android:viewportWidth="24.0"
      android:fillColor="#FFFFFF"
    android:viewportHeight="24.0">
<path
    android:fillColor="#FFFFFF"
    android:pathData="M15.5,14h-0.79l-0.28,-0.27C15.41,12.59 16,11.11 16,9.5 16,5.91 13.09,3 9.5,3S3,5.91 3,9.5 5.91,16 9.5,16c1.61,0 3.09,-0.59 4.23,-1.57l0.27,0.28v0.79l5,4.99L20.49,19l-4.99,-5zm-6,0C7.01,14 5,11.99 5,9.5S7.01,5 9.5,5 14,7.01 14,9.5 11.99,14 9.5,14z"/>

However, fillcolor and tint might work soon. Please see this discussion for more information:

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=186431

Also the colors mighr stick in the cache so deleting app for all users might help.