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 question is pretty simple. I don't mind if the solution comes from XML styling or Java code (both solutions are welcome). I will show everything (most of it anyway) I've tried to solve it.

First of all, the searview icon seems to be immutable by code since I can't change anything from it. My searchview is declared in menu.xml as this

<item android:id="@+id/icon_search"
    android:title="Searchador"
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_search_black_24dp" <!-- icon not used by searchview anyway -->
    android:showAsAction="always"
    android:actionViewClass="android.widget.SearchView"
/>

and inside my onCreateOptionsMenu I have this

SearchManager searchManager = (SearchManager) getSystemService(Context.SEARCH_SERVICE);
searchMenuItem = menu.findItem(R.id.icon_search);
searchView = (SearchView) searchMenuItem.getActionView();
searchView.setSearchableInfo(searchManager.getSearchableInfo(getComponentName()));
searchView.setSubmitButtonEnabled(false);
searchView.setOnQueryTextListener(this);
MenuTint.colorIcons(this, menu, Color.BLUE);
return true;

The MenuTint.colorIcons(this, menu, Color.BLUE); I got from a special class I found here where it basically changes all my icons color, unfortunately not working for the searchview icon.

I then found some answers suggesting to use a style like this

<style name="SearchViewStyle" parent="Widget.AppCompat.SearchView">
   <!-- changing my icon, its color and stuff.. -->
   <item name="searchIcon">@drawable/ic_search</item></style>

but I was getting the No resource found that matches the given name 'Widget.AppCompat.SearchView'. error.

I then found that I should add the android-support-app-compat project library instead of just the .jar. It didn't work. I mean, the import worked, but the error kept showing. Then, I found somewhere that I should change the project.properties from target=android-19 to 21 (or higher) but it didn't solved the "No resource found" error.

So I'm pretty much stuck for this simple detail where I need to change the searchview color.

Also, this is not exactly the same question, but I believe it might be solved the in the same way so I will include here: I wanted to change distance between the icons. Someone suggested this solution

<style name="ActionButtonStyle" parent="AppBaseTheme">
    <item name="android:minWidth">0dip</item>
    <item name="android:paddingLeft">0dip</item>
    <item name="android:paddingRight">0dip</item>                  
</style>

but I end up getting this

As you can see, this approach works for my custom icons only, but not for the searchview icon, neither for the menu overflow icon. I would like to change the distance between ALL icons equally.

Answer 1

If you want to change SearchView's search icon, you just need to get the image view within the view as follow:

searchView = v.findViewById(R.id.searchView);
//change icon color
ImageView searchIcon = searchView.findViewById(android.support.v7.appcompat.R.id.search_button);
searchIcon.setImageDrawable(ContextCompat.getDrawable(getActivity(),R.drawable.ic_search_icon));

It is important that the icon is R.id.search_button and you can replace it with a white vector asset that you provide, in this case R.drawable.ic_search_icon

Similarly, you can change the text within the SearchView as follows:

//set color to searchview
SearchView.SearchAutoComplete searchAutoComplete = searchView.findViewById(android.support.v7.appcompat.R.id.search_src_text);
searchAutoComplete.setHintTextColor(getResources().getColorandroid.R.color.white));
searchAutoComplete.setTextColor(getResources().getColor(android.R.color.white));