Changing action bar searchview hint text color

Question

How can I change the action bar search view hint text colour?

This question explains how to get the EditText when using ABS: Android ActionBar Customize Search View

Is there a android.R.id I could use to get a reference to the EditText so I could change the hint colour? Or is there some other way to change the colour?

Solution 1

android:actionBarWidgetTheme of your main theme should point to a style that has a android:textColorHint in it. That one will allow changing the hint text color of the search view.

Solution 2

searchView.setQueryHint(Html.fromHtml("<font color = #ffffff>" + getResources().getString(R.string.hintSearchMess) + "</font>"));

Solution 3

SearchView searchView= (SearchView) findViewById(R.id.searchView1);
int id = searchView.getContext()
                   .getResources()
                   .getIdentifier("android:id/search_src_text", null, null);
TextView textView = (TextView) searchView.findViewById(id);
textView.setTextColor(Color.WHITE);

Solution 4

this worked for me, hope it helps

((EditText) searchView.findViewById(android.support.v7.appcompat.R.id.search_src_text)).setHintTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.white));

also see this

Solution 5

I resolved it adding this property to the main theme:

<style name="AppTheme" parent="AppBaseTheme">
    .....
    .....
    <item name="android:actionBarWidgetTheme">@style/MyActionBarWidgetTheme</item> 
</style>

And then add the property i want to change in this case the hint color.

<style name="MyActionBarWidgetTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme.Holo">
    .....
    .....
    <item name="android:textColorHint">@color/blanco_60</item>
</style>

Hope it helps :D

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Comments

[Roger Alien]

android:actionBarWidgetTheme is available only at API lvl 14.

[Steve Westbrook]

Could you add a little explanation?

[Vadim Teselkin]

What's not to understand? Change the color of text and hint text via html tags ...

[Maksim Dmitriev]

The solution doesn't work. stackoverflow.com/a/14364222 does, but it's really a workaround.

[giltsl]

Nice to know, how to find search_src_text. Thanks.

[Glenn.nz]

Ill just add a comment here, the parent for android:actionBarWidgetTheme style is a theme also. You can use @android:style/Theme.Holo for the lighter search icon, and @android:style/Theme.Holo.Light for the darker search icon. From here

[aleb]

"android:actionBarWidgetTheme requires API level 14"

[user2331095]

I found that android.support.v7.appcompat is not necessary, just use searchView.findViewById(R.id.search_src_text) is ok.

[Chirag Khatsuriya]

can we change font size using html.fromhtml?

[Noumenon]

This is pretty close to a duplicate of stackoverflow.com/a/29026547/733092 above (but better formatted).

[Radu]

Yes! With theming!

[Mazharul Islam]

Best Solution ever

[Red M]

This does not work <style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">

[Graydyn Young]

This solution works for the actual search text, but does not affect the hint text color.

[Amr Angry]

it works with me in its time don't knew by now :) sorry for that @GraydynYoung

[user1354603]

This worked for me. Except I created a new theme "SearchViewStyle" which inherits from my main app theme and then added it to my SearchView component like this: "android:theme="@style/SearchViewStyle"

[user924]

yes, starting from 5 Android such things should be using app compat themes/styles, and support libraries which includes all of this are available for older versions as well

[Vadim Teselkin]

If you need only different size, you can use simple <small> or <big>

[someone]

Try don't use uppercase letters when it's not necessary. Doing that sends your comment to review queue, what let people like me (and you in future) reviewing a post that don't have nothing wrong (only the uppercase...).