Change fill color on vector asset in Android Studio

Question

Android Studio now supports vector assets on 21+ and will generate pngs for lower versions at compile time. I have a vector asset (from the Material Icons) that I want to c

Answer 1

Update: AppCompat support

Other answers suspecting if android:tint will work on only 21+ devices only, AppCompat(v23.2.0 and above) now provides a backward compatible handling of tint attribute.

So, the course of action would be to use AppCompatImageView and app:srcCompat(in AppCompat namespace) instead of android:src(Android namespace).

Here is an example(AndroidX: This is androidx.appcompat.widget.AppCompatImageView ;)):

And don't forget to enable vector drawable support in gradle:

vectorDrawables.useSupportLibrary = true