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

I called this method navigationView.setItemIconTintList(null); in the onCreate so that i can override the default color of the icon items in navigation drawer like this

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_places);
    drawer = findViewById(R.id.drawer_layout);
    NavigationView navigationView = findViewById(R.id.nav_view);
    navigationView.setNavigationItemSelectedListener(this);
    navigationView.setItemIconTintList(null);
}

Then i changed the color of each icon in navigation drawer using this android:iconTint="@color/metallic_blue" in activity_places_drawer.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
tools:showIn="navigation_view">

<group android:checkableBehavior="single">
    <item
        android:id="@+id/invite"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_people_orange_24dp"
        android:title="@string/menu_invite"
        android:fontFamily="@font/roboto_medium" />
</group>

Hope this answer helps.

Answer 2

If you want to set it dynamically you can use:

ActionBarDrawerToggle actionBarDrawerToggle = new ActionBarDrawerToggle(this, drawerLayout, toolbar, R.string.open_drawer, R.string.close_drawer);

actionBarDrawerToggle.getDrawerArrowDrawable().setColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.colorAccent));

Answer 3

You must change the colorAccent in the colors file to which ever color you want :

  <color name="colorAccent">whichever color required</color>

This solution worked for me