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user584513
user584513

Reputation: 630

Text color of SearchView in ActionBar with ActionBarSherlock

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

AutoCompleteTextView searchText = (AutoCompleteTextView) searchView.findViewById(R.id.abs__search_src_text);
searchText.setHintTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.white));
searchText.setTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.white));

But the problem is that searchText is null always. Also I tried with search_src_text (no abs__) - again, searchText is null.

I use Sherlock for my ActionBar (having custom view for the actionbar) but I also want the text color of the search view to be changed.

Anything I don't get?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 5323

Answers (2)

vuhung3990
vuhung3990

Reputation: 6789

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); 
.....................
}

Upvotes: 0

Trinimon
Trinimon

Reputation: 13957

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.

Upvotes: 7

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