How to set icon color of MenuItem?

Question

I defined a menu item that has ShareActionProvider and share white icon like so :

<item     android:icon="@drawable/ic_share_white_24dp"     android:id="@+id/action_share"     android:title="@string/action_share"     android:orderInCategory="200"     app:showAsAction="ifRoom"     app:actionProviderClass="android.support.v7.widget.ShareActionProvider"/> 

But when I launch the application, I get a different black share icon. How to set the share icon to be white?

Here is the result that I have

Answer 1

The icon is actually provided by the ShareActionProvider and you can't change it afaik. You can, however, customize the color by setting the textColorPrimary in your styles.xml:

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar     android:id="@+id/toolbar"     android:layout_width="match_parent"     android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"     app:theme="@style/MyActionBarTheme"     app:popupTheme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light"> 

---

<style name="MyActionBarTheme" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar">     <item name="android:textColorPrimary">#fa0</item> </style> 

For any custom icons, you would have to color them yourself, ie.

@Override public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {     getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_main, menu);      for(int i = 0; i < menu.size(); i++){         Drawable drawable = menu.getItem(i).getIcon();         if(drawable != null) {             drawable.mutate();             drawable.setColorFilter(getResources().getColor(R.color.textColorPrimary), PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_ATOP);         }     }      return true; }