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 my case, I needed to change the color of just one menu item - "Logout". I had to run a recursion and changed the title color:

NavigationView nvDrawer;
Menu menu = nvDrawer.getMenu();
    for (int i = 0; i < menu.size(); i ++){
        MenuItem menuItem = menu.getItem(i);

        if (menuItem.getTitle().equals("Logout")){

            SpannableString spanString = new SpannableString(menuItem.getTitle().toString());
            spanString.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(getResources().getColor(R.color.red)), 0, spanString.length(), 0);
            menuItem.setTitle(spanString);

        }

    }

I did this in the Activity's onCreate method.