How to change searchview icon color?

Question

I know there\'s already a lot of answers for this question here, and I wouldn\'t be creating another thread if I hadn\'t already tried everything I saw here. Anyway, the qu

Answer 1

 final SearchView searchViewAndroidActionBar = (SearchView) MenuItemCompat.getActionView(searchViewItem);
        // change close icon color
        ImageView iconClose = (ImageView) searchViewAndroidActionBar.findViewById(android.support.v7.appcompat.R.id.search_close_btn);
        iconClose.setColorFilter(getResources().getColor(R.color.grey));
       //change search icon color
        ImageView iconSearch = searchViewAndroidActionBar.findViewById(android.support.v7.appcompat.R.id.search_button);
        iconSearch.setColorFilter(getResources().getColor(R.color.grey));