Make current active item in Navigation changed Color

Question

I'm trying to change the background color of my Navigation drawer menu. When an item is pressed it changes to red and what I wanted to achieve is it stays red after clicking because it is the current active item in the Navigation and even the drawer is closed.

I created a drawable xml where I set the background of the item (item_bg.xml) here's my code

<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_selected="true" android:drawable="@color/brickred" />
<item android:state_activated="true" android:drawable="@color/brickred" />
<item android:state_active="true" android:drawable="@color/brickred" />
<item android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="@color/brickred" />
<item android:state_focused="true" android:drawable="@color/brickred" />
</selector>

and calls it to my navigation_activity.xml like this

<android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
xmlns:fab="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:id="@+id/drawer_layout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
tools:openDrawer="start">

<android.support.design.widget.NavigationView
    android:id="@+id/navigationView"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_gravity="start"
    android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
    app:menu="@menu/activity_navigation_drawer"
    android:background="@color/tableHeader"
    app:itemBackground="@drawable/item_bg"/>

 </android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout>

Any suggestions on how to achieve this? thank you.

Here's my NavigationActivity looks like:

 @SuppressWarnings("StatementWithEmptyBody")
  @Override
   public boolean onNavigationItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    int id = item.getItemId();
    Intent goToSreen;

    if (id == R.id.nav_dashboard) {
        goToSreen = new Intent(NavigationActivity.this, DashboardActivity.class);
        startActivity(goToSreen);
        navigationView.setCheckedItem(R.id.nav_dashboard);
    }

but it still goes back to its original color after the drawer is closed.

Try: In your style: `` and include the style in `android.support.design.widget.NavigationView ` !!! ` app:theme="@style/YourThemeNameFor.NavigationDrawer" ` — Satan Pandeya, May 30 '17 at 04:15
Similar question has been asked [here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33956978/navigationviewchange-color-of-selected-item) — Kunal Chawla, May 30 '17 at 04:19

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered May 30 '17 at 04:12

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I tried this

navigationView.getMenu().getItem(1).setChecked(true);

Check here

answered May 30 '17 at 04:12

Rissmon Suresh

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How can I get the position of it when selected? Also i tried it only works in onCreate is there a way where I can use it on onNavigationItemSelected ? – natsumiyu May 30 '17 at 06:19
pass the postion as parameter to getItem() – Rissmon Suresh May 30 '17 at 06:30
navigationView.getMenu().getItem(position).setChecked(true); – Rissmon Suresh May 30 '17 at 06:31
for postion check this link https://stackoverflow.com/a/31872096/4247543 – Rissmon Suresh May 30 '17 at 06:33
i tried that i get the position correctly but it goes back to its original color after the drawer is closed – natsumiyu May 30 '17 at 06:34
try navigationView.setCheckedItem(R.id.nav_item) – Rissmon Suresh May 30 '17 at 06:35
where should I put it? i tried to put it on my `onNavigationItemSelected` but it still goes back to its original color. I updated my question and added my code on my `NavigationActivity`. Kindly please check it. Thank you. – natsumiyu May 30 '17 at 06:58
see if u missed to add this https://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiTn5PgiZfUAhVFtY8KHZL8BgQQygQIRDAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fdeveloper.android.com%2Fguide%2Ftopics%2Fui%2Fmenus.html%23checkable&usg=AFQjCNG4q-8pJUzY31db9nkBd5EgHp-RgQ – Rissmon Suresh May 30 '17 at 07:20
i have `` – natsumiyu May 30 '17 at 07:59

Make current active item in Navigation changed Color

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