Android change menu item Text color dynamically

Question

I am trying to change menu item text color dynamically.

I have a solution that works for menu icons, it uses the color filter as follows:

Drawable drawable = menuItem.getIcon();

        if (drawable != null) {
            drawable.mutate();
            drawable.setColorFilter(new
                    PorterDuffColorFilter(Color.parseColor(color), PorterDuff.Mode.MULTIPLY));
        }
        menuItem.setIcon(drawable);

Output:

I am unable to change the color of menu item text. To make this work I used the following code:

 SpannableString s = new SpannableString(menuItem.getTitle());
                s.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.parseColor(color)), 0, s.length(), 0);
                menuItem.setTitle(s);

Output:

the color of "SAVE" is what I am trying to change.

Can anyone help me out with this?

Pradeep Gupta · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-25 07:06:46Z

2

try this,

add this theme in style.

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">    
    <item name="actionMenuTextColor">@color/text_color</item>    
</style>

and apply the theme to toolbar

 android:theme="@style/AppTheme"

edited May 25, 2017 at 7:06

answered May 25, 2017 at 6:49

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Prashant Kawtikwar Over a year ago

Is there a way to specify text color from java code instead of specifying it in XML? e.g I am specifying actionMenuTextColor = white in style/XML & want to change it to RED in activity at runtime. How to do that?

Pradeep Gupta Over a year ago

check this stackoverflow.com/questions/8614293/… hope it will help you.

JPM Over a year ago

He wants to do it dynamically not the whole theme file!

Jaydeep Khambhayta · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-25 10:37:03Z

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add menu style

<style name="optionMenuTextApearance" parent="@style/Theme.Sherlock.Light">
    <item name="actionMenuTextColor">@color/white</item>
    <item name="android:actionMenuTextColor">@color/white</item>
</style>

called it in menu

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

Runtime change menu color

 @Override
public boolean onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    boolean result = super.onPrepareOptionsMenu(menu);
    styleMenuButton();
    return result;
}

private void styleMenuButton() {
    // Find the menu item you want to style
    View view = findViewById(R.id.YOUR_MENU_ITEM_ID_HERE);

    // Cast to a TextView instance if the menu item was found
    if (view != null && view instanceof TextView) {
        ((TextView) view).setTextColor( Color.BLUE ); // Make text colour blue
    }
}

edited May 25, 2017 at 10:37

answered May 25, 2017 at 6:40

Jaydeep Khambhayta

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Prashant Kawtikwar Over a year ago

Is there a way to specify text color from java code instead of specifying it in XML? e.g I am specifying actionMenuTextColor = white in style/XML & want to change it to RED in activity at runtime. How to do that?

Prashant Kawtikwar Over a year ago

I want to change the color of that "save" menu item in activity as shown below:

@Override     public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {         MenuInflater menuInflater = getMenuInflater();         menuInflater.inflate(R.menu.menu_done, menu);          MenuItem saveMenuItem = menu.findItem( R.id.action_done);         // I want to change saveMenuItem text                           return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);     }

Prashant Kawtikwar Over a year ago

View view = findViewById(R.id.YOUR_MENU_ITEM_ID_HERE); always returns null.

JPM Over a year ago

You have to find the Appear view, this finds nothing.

viz · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-25 10:25:26Z

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You should set your SpannableString on your Menu Item. Add the following line after you build a SpannableString:

menuItem.setTitle(s);

Since your menuItem.getTitle() is only providing a String value for making a SpannableString, not the reference as a menu item title.

edited May 25, 2017 at 10:25

answered May 25, 2017 at 6:54

viz

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Prashant Kawtikwar Over a year ago

I have to change menu item text color not action bar title color.

viz Over a year ago

@PrashantKawtikwar Sorry I was confused, try the edited answer.

viz Over a year ago

Did you put your code in onCreateOptionsMenu? You should override that method in order to change the menu.

Prashant Kawtikwar Over a year ago

Yes. I wrote the code in onCreateOptionsMenu method.

viz Over a year ago

That sounds weird. How does your xml layout look like?

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