How to set icon color of MenuItem?

Question

I defined a menu item that has ShareActionProvider and share white icon like so :

<item
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_share_white_24dp"
    android:id="@+id/action_share"
    android:title="@string/action_share"
    android:orderInCategory="200"
    app:showAsAction="ifRoom"
    app:actionProviderClass="android.support.v7.widget.ShareActionProvider"/>

But when I launch the application, I get a different black share icon. How to set the share icon to be white?

Here is the result that I have

Answer 1

The icon is actually provided by the ShareActionProvider and you can't change it afaik. You can, however, customize the color by setting the textColorPrimary in your styles.xml:

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
    android:id="@+id/toolbar"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
    app:theme="@style/MyActionBarTheme"
    app:popupTheme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light">

---

<style name="MyActionBarTheme" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar">
    <item name="android:textColorPrimary">#fa0</item>
</style>

For any custom icons, you would have to color them yourself, ie.

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_main, menu);

    for(int i = 0; i < menu.size(); i++){
        Drawable drawable = menu.getItem(i).getIcon();
        if(drawable != null) {
            drawable.mutate();
            drawable.setColorFilter(getResources().getColor(R.color.textColorPrimary), PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_ATOP);
        }
    }

    return true;
}