Android Wear - Action Drawer Icon Color

Question

I am using an action drawer with a menu. The icons appear in black as in the following screenshot:

I am trying to change the color of these icons, pretty much the same as in the design guidelines:

However, I cannot find where to do that or which style attribute will allow me to do so.

Don't think this is possible. Have you tried changing the whole icon instead? — ReyAnthonyRenacia, Jun 29 '17 at 14:20
I even changed the color of the icon itself in the xml (it's a vector drawable). Nothing — Abdalrahman Shatou, Jun 29 '17 at 22:13

TofferJ · Answer 1 · 2017-06-30T15:11:03.403

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If you're using a CircledImageView you can set the tint of the icon directly on the view using setImageTint(int tint).

If you're using a traditional ImageView you need to create a Drawable from your icon resource and apply the tint to it, and then set it to the view:

Drawable iconDrawable = mContext.getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.icon, mContext.getTheme());
iconDrawable.setTint(mContext.getColor(R.color.bg_color, mContext.getTheme()));
iconView.setImageDrawable(iconDrawable);

EDIT: To access icons in a menu you can do something like this when it's created:

for(int i = 0; i < menu.size(); i++) {
    Drawable iconDrawable = menu.getItem(i).getIcon();
    iconDrawable.setTint(mContext.getColor(R.color.bg_color, mContext.getTheme()));
}

edited Jun 30 '17 at 15:11

answered Jun 29 '17 at 19:48

TofferJ

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This is a menu, not a custom view. It's loaded from a menu xml. – Abdalrahman Shatou Jun 29 '17 at 22:14
Updated my answer. If this still doesn't help please post some code that shows what your menu XML looks like and how you're creating it in code. – TofferJ Jun 30 '17 at 15:12

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 24 '17 at 16:30

They changed the layout for the Action Drawer items without giving an option to change the color/disable it.

v23/action_drawer_item_view.xml

<ImageView
        android:id="@+id/wearable_support_action_drawer_item_icon"
        android:layout_width="@dimen/action_drawer_item_icon_size"
        android:layout_height="@dimen/action_drawer_item_icon_size"
        android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
        android:background="@drawable/action_item_icon_background"
        **android:tint="?android:attr/colorBackground"**
        android:padding="@dimen/action_drawer_item_icon_padding"
        android:scaleType="fitCenter"
        tools:ignore="ContentDescription" />

Since there's no access to the adapter, it's not possible change the color.

Android Wear - Action Drawer Icon Color

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