Change toolbar back arrow color
Solution 1
You can override the theme in your Toolbar
.
With a Material Components theme:
<com.google.android.material.appbar.MaterialToolbar
style="@style/Widget.MaterialComponents.Toolbar.Primary"
android:theme="@style/MyThemeOverlay_Toolbar"
..>
with:
<style name="MyThemeOverlay_Toolbar2" parent="ThemeOverlay.MaterialComponents.Toolbar.Primary">
<!-- This attributes is used by navigation icon and overflow icon -->
<item name="colorOnPrimary">@color/secondaryColor</item>
</style>
With an AppCompat theme:
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:theme="@style/myToolbarTheme"
...
>
Then in your theme you can define the colorControlNormal
attribute:
<style name="" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar">
....
<item name="colorControlNormal">@color/myColor</item>
</style>
Solution 2
Be mindful of the theme you use. If you copied your ToolBar code from https://developer.android.com/training/appbar/setting-up, then you have this:
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="@+id/my_toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
android:elevation="4dp"
android:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.ActionBar"
app:popupTheme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light"/>
Based on @Gabriele's answer (upvoted), I had to take out the android:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.ActionBar"
attribute and put it in styles.xml
then customize the colorControlNormal
attribute like so:
<style name="ToolBarTheme" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.ActionBar">
<item name="colorControlNormal">@color/white</item>
</style>
Back to my Toolbar declaration, I modified as below:
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
...
android:theme="@style/ToolBarTheme"
/>
Cheers!
Nick
Updated on June 24, 2022Comments
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Nick almost 2 years
Hi. In the picture above you can see a back arrow and a (part of) title. I changed the title color using the attached .xml code. But I want to color the back arrow to white too.
I read some answer on the internet, but they look too complicated for such a simple question.
Is the any simple why to do it?
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar android:id="@+id/toolbar" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize" android:background="@color/colorPrimary" android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize" app:titleTextColor="@android:color/white"/>
import android.support.v7.app.ActionBar; import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity; import android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar; //... public class LoginActivity extends AppCompatActivity { protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar); setSupportActionBar(toolbar); ActionBar actionBar = getSupportActionBar(); actionBar.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true); //... } //... }