How to customize item background and item text color inside NavigationView?

Question

I wanna achieve something like this shown in the Material Design Docs.

colorControlHighlight is used for the Background on checked items.

I need to customize:

• background unchecked
• text color checked
• text color unchecked

Answer 1

itemBackground, itemIconTint and itemTextColor are simple xml-attributes that can be set, though you have to use a custom prefix instead of the android: one.

Example

<android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:id="@+id/drawer_layout"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:fitsSystemWindows="true">

    <!-- Other layout views -->

    <android.support.design.widget.NavigationView
        android:id="@+id/nav_view"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_gravity="start"
        android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
        app:itemBackground="@drawable/my_ripple"
        app:itemIconTint="#2196f3"
        app:itemTextColor="#009688"
        app:headerLayout="@layout/nav_header"
        app:menu="@menu/drawer_view" />

</android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout>

Note: In this case the text color, icon tint and background are static. If you want to change the color of the text (e.g. pink when unchecked and teal when checked) you should use a ColorStateList.

Example

Create a new *.xml file in /res/color - let's name it state_list.xml - with the following content:

<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <!-- This is used when the Navigation Item is checked -->
    <item android:color="#009688" android:state_checked="true" />
    <!-- This is the default text color -->
    <item android:color="#E91E63" />
</selector>

and then simply reference it like this: app:itemTextColor="@color/state_list"

The same goes for itemIconTint. itemBackground expects a resource id. See the docs as well.