Change toolbar back arrow color

Question

Hi. In the picture above you can see a back arrow and a (part of) title. I changed the title color using the attached .xml code. But I want to color the back arrow

Answer 1

Be mindful of the theme you use. If you copied your ToolBar code from https://developer.android.com/training/appbar/setting-up, then you have this:

Based on @Gabriele's answer (upvoted), I had to take out the android:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.ActionBar" attribute and put it in styles.xml then customize the colorControlNormal attribute like so:

Back to my Toolbar declaration, I modified as below:

Cheers!