Changing action bar searchview hint text color

Question

How can I change the action bar search view hint text colour?

This question explains how to get the EditText when using ABS: Android ActionBar Customize Search View

Answer 1

Just get the textView id of search widget and use setTextColor() method to change the search text color and setHintTextColor() to change the search hints text color.

// Get textview id of search widget
int id =  searchView.getContext().getResources().getIdentifier("android:id/search_src_text", null, null);
TextView textView = (TextView) searchView.findViewById(id);

// Set search text color
textView.setTextColor(Color.WHITE);

// Set search hints color
textView.setHintTextColor(Color.GRAY);