Change color of Navigation Drawer Icon in Android Studio default template

Question

The new default Navigation Drawer Activity template in Android Studio

defines its titles and icons in a menu file activity_main_drawer like thi

Answer 1

Based on @MD's comment, all I needed to do was add:

app:itemIconTint="@color/my_desired_colour"

to NavigationView (it is located in activity_main.xml layout file) The default tint is black but you can use an even darker shade of black by using #000000