Text color of SearchView in ActionBar with ActionBarSherlock

Question

I want to change the color of a text in an ActionBarSherlock SearchView, so I found this on StackOverflow:

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Answer 1

Change and apply your styles as follows:

1. Overwrite SearchViewStyle that defines relevant style.

   <style name="SearchViewStyle" 
          parent="Widget.Sherlock.Light.SearchAutoCompleteTextView">
       <item name="android:textColor">myTextColor</item>
   </style>
   

2. Add this style definition to your app theme.

   <style name="CustomTheme" parent="Theme.Sherlock.Light">
       ...
       <item name="searchAutoCompleteTextView">@style/SearchViewStyle</item>
       ...
   </style>
   

3. Apply this theme in your Manifest (android:theme="CustomTheme").

Hope this helps ... Cheers!

p.s. search for SearchViewStyle in ABS style definitions (XML files). This way you can follow up available styles using Ctrl+click on definitions.

Answer 2

other way, work for me

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        searchView = new SearchView(getSupportActionBar().getThemedContext());

        AutoCompleteTextView searchText = (AutoCompleteTextView) searchView.findViewById(R.id.abs__search_src_text);
        searchText.setTextColor(Color.BLACK); 
.....................
}