How to change the color of searchbar search icon and cancel button color in xamarin forms

Question

How to change the color of searchbar icon from xaml, I want to change the cancel and search icon color of a search bar in xamarin forms application.How to implement this. Please help on this

Answer 1

As adamm said, you can modify the "cancel button color" via CancelButtonColor.

Similarly, if you want to implement a custom SearchBar in iOS, you can also create a custom renderer for it.

For UISearchBar, you can modify the color of the icon via SearchTextField.LeftView.TintColor.

[assembly: ExportRenderer(typeof(MySearchBar), typeof(MySearchBarRenderer))]
namespace searchbar.iOS
{
    public class MySearchBarRenderer : SearchBarRenderer
    {
        protected override void OnElementChanged(ElementChangedEventArgs<SearchBar> e)
        {
            base.OnElementChanged(e);

            if (Control != null)
            {
                Control.BackgroundColor = UIColor.Yellow;
                UISearchBar searchbar = Control as UISearchBar;
                searchbar.SearchTextField.LeftView.TintColor = UIColor.Orange;
                // UPDATE
                var clearButton = searchbar.SearchTextField.ValueForKey((Foundation.NSString)"clearButton") as UIButton;
                //clearButton.SetTitleColor(UIColor.Blue, UIControlState.Normal);
                //clearButton.TintColor = UIColor.Orange;
                clearButton.SetImage(UIImage.FromBundle("CloseIcon.png"), UIControlState.Normal);
            }
        }
    }
}