Navigation drawer item icon not showing original colour

Question

I\'m trying to show an icon next to an item within my menu for my navigation drawer, but for some reason the icon always appears in grey rather than the original colour (bro

Answer 1

I found the answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/30632980/875249

To avoid the link its pretty straightforward:

    mNavigationView.setItemIconTintList(null);

This disables all state based tinting, but you can also specify your own list too. It worked great for me!

Here is where you can get the details on creating a color state list, but its pretty simple too: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/res/ColorStateList.html