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

Take the Drawable you want to tint, wrap it with a tinted drawable , and set it as a new one for the search menu item:

@JvmStatic
fun getTintedDrawable(inputDrawable: Drawable, @ColorInt color: Int): Drawable {
    val wrapDrawable = DrawableCompat.wrap(inputDrawable.mutate())
    DrawableCompat.setTint(wrapDrawable, color)
    DrawableCompat.setTintMode(wrapDrawable, Mode.SRC_IN)
    return wrapDrawable
}

Usage:

val drawable =getTintedDrawable(...)
searchMenuItem.icon = drawable

And this should work for all Android versions that android-x (support library) supports.