Changing text color of menu item in navigation drawer

Question

I\'m trying to add a night theme for my app and I\'ve wasted nearly three hours just trying to make the text and icons in my navigation drawer turn white along with the dark

Answer 1

In Future if anyone comes here using, Navigation Drawer Activity (provided by Studio in Activity Prompt window)

The answer is -

Use this before OnCreate() in MainActivity

int[][] state = new int[][] {
        new int[] {android.R.attr.state_checked}, // checked
        new int[] {-android.R.attr.state_checked}
};

int[] color = new int[] {
        Color.rgb(255,46,84),
        (Color.BLACK)
};

ColorStateList csl = new ColorStateList(state, color);

int[][] state2 = new int[][] {
        new int[] {android.R.attr.state_checked}, // checked
        new int[] {-android.R.attr.state_checked}
};

int[] color2 = new int[] {
        Color.rgb(255,46,84),
        (Color.GRAY)
};

ColorStateList csl2 = new ColorStateList(state2, color2);

and use this in onNavigationItemSelected() in MainActivity (you dont need to Write this function if you use Navigation Drawer activity, it will be added in MainActivity).

 NavigationView nav = (NavigationView) findViewById(R.id.nav_view);
    nav.setItemTextColor(csl);
    nav.setItemIconTintList(csl2);
    nav.setItemBackgroundResource(R.color.white);

Tip - add this code before If else Condition in onNavigationItemSelected()