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Wai Yan Hein
Wai Yan Hein

Reputation: 14791

Programmatically setting icon to navigation drawer menu item using drawable resource is always black in Android

I am developing an Android app. In my app I am using navigation drawer and navigation view. I am setting menu items for them programmatically. I set drawable image resource as icon to them programmatically. But when I set icon to them, icons are always black event my image resource beautiful color image.

This is how I programmatically set icon to menu

Menu menu = leftDrawer.getMenu();
        SubMenu subMenu = menu.addSubMenu(MAIN_MENU_ITEM_GROUP_ID, 99, 99, "Others");

        subMenu.add(MAIN_MENU_ITEM_GROUP_ID,96,96,"Monthly Leaderboard").setIcon(R.drawable.leaderboard_icon).setOnMenuItemClickListener(new MenuItem.OnMenuItemClickListener() {
            @Override
            public boolean onMenuItemClick(MenuItem item) {
                startActivity(new Intent(MainActivity.this, LeaderboardActivity.class));
                return false;
            }
        });

        subMenu.add(MAIN_MENU_ITEM_GROUP_ID,96,96,"Settings").setIcon(R.drawable.settings_icon).setOnMenuItemClickListener(new MenuItem.OnMenuItemClickListener() {
            @Override
            public boolean onMenuItemClick(MenuItem item) {
                startActivity(new Intent(MainActivity.this, SettingsActivity.class));
                return false;
            }
        });

This is the screenshot of what I have got

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As you can see icons are black.

This is one of my original icon

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Why is that happening and how can I fix it to get colorful icon? I have to set it programmatically.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3533

Answers (1)

Saurabh Vardani
Saurabh Vardani

Reputation: 1861

Try the following line of code to resolve your problem...

yourNavigationView.setItemIconTintList(null)

And,

If you want to give specific color then You can change the color by using app:itemIconTint="@color/my_desired_colour" to NavigationView.

The default tint is black.`

Upvotes: 2

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