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Reputation: 1566

Change textcolor of menu item

I want to change textcolor of menu items. below is my xml layout for menu -

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item
    android:id="@+id/a_More"
    android:icon="@drawable/icon_menu_titleview"
    android:showAsAction="always">
    <menu>
        <item
            android:id="@+id/action_titleview"
            android:icon="@drawable/icon_menu_titleview"
            android:showAsAction="never"
            android:title="@string/title_view"/>
        <item
            android:id="@+id/action_listview"
            android:icon="@drawable/icon_menu_list_view"
            android:showAsAction="never"
            android:title="@string/list_view"/>
        <item
            android:id="@+id/action_magazineview"
            android:icon="@drawable/icon_menu_magazine_view"
            android:showAsAction="never"
            android:title="@string/magazine_view"/>
        <item
            android:id="@+id/action_cardview"
            android:icon="@drawable/icon_menu_card_view"
            android:showAsAction="never"
            android:title="@string/card_view"/>
    </menu>
</item>
</menu>

I don't know which property to use. Thanks in advance

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2072

Answers (3)

Loop0
Loop0

Reputation: 1

All the answers above will work only for static coloring, if like me you need to implement the color change dynamically after the menu is already created and displayed you should follow this answer and add a line with the color change, note this method will work always even with the SDK 24.

Just add:

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main_menu, menu);
    MenuItem item = menu.findItem(R.id.menuItem);
    Button saveButton = item.getActionView().findViewById(R.id.menuButton);
    //sets the color
    saveButton.setTextColor(Color.RED);

return true;

}

Upvotes: 0

Sagar Pilkhwal
Sagar Pilkhwal

Reputation: 3993

Use this in your menu xml:

<item name="android:itemTextAppearance">@style/mMenuTextApearance</item>

in my theme and

<style name="mMenuTextApearance" parent="@android:style/TextAppearance.Widget.IconMenu.Item">
    <item name="android:textColor">@color/your_color</item>
</style>

Upvotes: 2

Naveen Tamrakar
Naveen Tamrakar

Reputation: 3339

<item name="android:itemTextAppearance">@style/myCustomMenuTextApearance</item>


<style name="myCustomMenuTextApearance" parent="@android:style/TextAppearance.Widget.IconMenu.Item">
    <item name="android:textColor">@android:color/primary_text_dark</item>
</style>

have a look this

Upvotes: 3

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