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

To change the individual text color of a single item, use a SpannableString like below:

SpannableString spannableString = new SpannableString("Menu item"));
        spannableString.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(getResources().getColor(R.color.colorPrimary)), 0, spannableString.length(), 0);

menu.findItem(R.id.nav_item).setTitle(spannableString);