How to change the text and icon color of selected menu item on Navigation Drawer programmatically using java

Question

I am a beginner in Android Development. Using android\'s default Navigation drawer activity I am developing an application. One of the requirements of this app is to change

Answer 1

Firstly thank you all for responding back with your solutions :) Learning from the answers above and doing some research on ColorStateList I finally managed to create a method which sets the color of the checked item on the navigation drawer to match the color of my app theme color which is generated randomly at runtime.

Here's the method:

public void setNavMenuItemThemeColors(int color){
    //Setting default colors for menu item Text and Icon
    int navDefaultTextColor = Color.parseColor("#202020");
    int navDefaultIconColor = Color.parseColor("#737373");

    //Defining ColorStateList for menu item Text
    ColorStateList navMenuTextList = new ColorStateList(
            new int[][]{
                    new int[]{android.R.attr.state_checked},
                    new int[]{android.R.attr.state_enabled},
                    new int[]{android.R.attr.state_pressed},
                    new int[]{android.R.attr.state_focused},
                    new int[]{android.R.attr.state_pressed}
            },
            new int[] {
                    color,
                    navDefaultTextColor,
                    navDefaultTextColor,
                    navDefaultTextColor,
                    navDefaultTextColor
            }
    );

    //Defining ColorStateList for menu item Icon
    ColorStateList navMenuIconList = new ColorStateList(
            new int[][]{
                    new int[]{android.R.attr.state_checked},
                    new int[]{android.R.attr.state_enabled},
                    new int[]{android.R.attr.state_pressed},
                    new int[]{android.R.attr.state_focused},
                    new int[]{android.R.attr.state_pressed}
            },
            new int[] {
                    color,
                    navDefaultIconColor,
                    navDefaultIconColor,
                    navDefaultIconColor,
                    navDefaultIconColor
            }
    );

    mNavView.setItemTextColor(navMenuTextList);
    mNavView.setItemIconTintList(navMenuIconList);
}

you can call this method with any int color you want :)