I am using the new Android Design Support library to implement a navigation drawer in my application.
I can't figure out how to change the color of a selected item!
Here is the xml of the menu :
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<group android:checkableBehavior="single">
<item
android:id="@+id/navigation_item_1"
android:icon="@drawable/ic_1"
android:title="@string/navigation_item_1"/>
<item
android:id="@+id/navigation_item_2"
android:icon="@drawable/ic_2"
android:title="@string/navigation_item_2"/>
</group>
And here is the navigationview xml which is placed inside a android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout
:
<android.support.design.widget.NavigationView
android:id="@+id/activity_main_navigationview"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_gravity="start"
app:headerLayout="@layout/drawer_header"
app:itemIconTint="@color/black"
app:itemTextColor="@color/primary_text"
app:menu="@menu/menu_drawer">
<TextView
android:id="@+id/main_activity_version"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="bottom"
android:layout_marginBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
android:layout_marginLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:textColor="@color/primary_text" />
</android.support.design.widget.NavigationView>
Thank you for your help !
[EDIT] I have already looked at solutions such as this one : Change background color of android menu.
It seems to be quite a hack and I thought that with the new Design Support Library, something cleaner would have been introduced?
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Here's how you can do it in your Activity's onCreate method:
NavigationView navigationView = findViewById(R.id.nav_view);
ColorStateList csl = new ColorStateList(
new int[][] {
new int[] {-android.R.attr.state_checked}, // unchecked
new int[] { android.R.attr.state_checked} // checked
},
new int[] {
Color.BLACK,
Color.RED
}
);
navigationView.setItemTextColor(csl);
navigationView.setItemIconTintList(csl);
One need to set NavigateItem
checked true whenever item in NavigateView
is clicked
//listen for navigation events
NavigationView navigationView = (NavigationView)findViewById(R.id.navigation);
navigationView.setNavigationItemSelectedListener(this);
// select the correct nav menu item
navigationView.getMenu().findItem(mNavItemId).setChecked(true);
Add NavigationItemSelectedListener
on NavigationView
@Override
public boolean onNavigationItemSelected(final MenuItem menuItem) {
// update highlighted item in the navigation menu
menuItem.setChecked(true);
mNavItemId = menuItem.getItemId();
// allow some time after closing the drawer before performing real navigation
// so the user can see what is happening
mDrawerLayout.closeDrawer(GravityCompat.START);
mDrawerActionHandler.postDelayed(new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
navigate(menuItem.getItemId());
}
}, DRAWER_CLOSE_DELAY_MS);
return true;
}
I believe app:itemBackground
expects a drawable. So follow the steps below :
Make a drawable file highlight_color.xml
with following contents :
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:shape="rectangle">
<solid android:color="YOUR HIGHLIGHT COLOR"/>
</shape>
Make another drawable file nav_item_drawable.xml
with following contents:
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:drawable="@drawable/highlight_color" android:state_checked="true"/>
</selector>
Finally add app:itemBackground
tag in the NavView :
<android.support.design.widget.NavigationView
android:id="@+id/activity_main_navigationview"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_gravity="start"
app:headerLayout="@layout/drawer_header"
app:itemIconTint="@color/black"
app:itemTextColor="@color/primary_text"
app:itemBackground="@drawable/nav_item_drawable"
app:menu="@menu/menu_drawer">
here the highlight_color.xml file defines a solid color drawable for the background. Later this color drawable is assigned to nav_item_drawable.xml selector.
This worked for me. Hopefully this will help.
********************************************** UPDATED **********************************************
Though the above mentioned answer gives you fine control over some properties, but the way I am about to describe feels more SOLID and is a bit COOLER.
So what you can do is, you can define a ThemeOverlay in the styles.xml
for the NavigationView like this :
<style name="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.navTheme">
<!-- Color of text and icon when SELECTED -->
<item name="colorPrimary">@color/color_of_your_choice</item>
<!-- Background color when SELECTED -->
<item name="colorControlHighlight">@color/color_of_your_choice</item>
</style>
now apply this ThemeOverlay to app:theme
attribute of NavigationView, like this:
<android.support.design.widget.NavigationView
android:id="@+id/activity_main_navigationview"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_gravity="start"
app:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.navTheme"
app:headerLayout="@layout/drawer_header"
app:menu="@menu/menu_drawer">
I hope this will help.
Here is the another way to achive this:
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
int id = item.getItemId();
item.setOnMenuItemClickListener(new MenuItem.OnMenuItemClickListener() {
@Override
public boolean onMenuItemClick(MenuItem item) {
item.setEnabled(true);
item.setTitle(Html.fromHtml("<font color='#ff3824'>Settings</font>"));
return false;
}
});
//noinspection SimplifiableIfStatement
if (id == R.id.action_settings) {
return true;
}
return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}
}
Step 1: Build a checked/unchecked selector:
selector.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:color="@color/yellow" android:state_checked="true" />
<item android:color="@color/white" android:state_checked="false" />
</selector>
Step 2: use the xml attribute app:itemTextColor
within NavigationView
widget for selecting the text color.
<android.support.design.widget.NavigationView
android:id="@+id/nav_view"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_gravity="start"
app:headerLayout="@layout/navigation_header_layout"
app:itemTextColor="@drawable/selector"
app:menu="@menu/navigation_menu" />
Step 3:
For some reason when you hit an item from the NavigationView
menu, it doesn't consider this as a button check. So you need to manually get the selected item checked and clear the previously selected item. Use below listener to do that
@Override
public boolean onNavigationItemSelected(@NonNull MenuItem item) {
int id = item.getItemId();
// remove all colors of the items to the `unchecked` state of the selector
removeColor(mNavigationView);
// check the selected item to change its color set by the `checked` state of the selector
item.setChecked(true);
switch (item.getItemId()) {
case R.id.dashboard:
...
}
drawerLayout.closeDrawer(GravityCompat.START);
return true;
}
private void removeColor(NavigationView view) {
for (int i = 0; i < view.getMenu().size(); i++) {
MenuItem item = view.getMenu().getItem(i);
item.setChecked(false);
}
}
Step 4:
To change icon color, use the app:iconTint
attribute in the NavigationView
menu items, and set to the same selector.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">
<item
android:id="@+id/nav_account"
android:checked="true"
android:icon="@drawable/ic_person_black_24dp"
android:title="My Account"
app:iconTint="@drawable/selector" />
<item
android:id="@+id/nav_settings"
android:icon="@drawable/ic_settings_black_24dp"
android:title="Settings"
app:iconTint="@drawable/selector" />
<item
android:id="@+id/nav_logout"
android:icon="@drawable/logout"
android:title="Log Out"
app:iconTint="@drawable/selector" />
</menu>
Result:
Source: Stackoverflow.com