How to set Toolbar text and back arrow color

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Android Problem Overview

Toolbar background is dark color, I want text and back arrow to be white. I tried following, but it doesnt work.

<style name="Theme.MyTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">

        <item name="colorPrimary">@color/blue</item>
        <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/blue_darker</item>
        <item name="colorAccent">@color/purple</item>
        <!-- item name="android:textColorPrimary">@color/white</item--> // I don't want to set this, changes everywhere. 
        <item name="android:textColorSecondary">@color/white</item>
        <item name="android:toolbarStyle">@style/AppTheme.ToolbarStyle</item>
        <item name="toolbarStyle">@style/AppTheme.ToolbarStyle</item>

        <item name="drawerArrowStyle">@style/AppTheme.DrawerArrowStyle</item>

    </style>

    <style name="AppTheme.ToolbarStyle" parent="Base.Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar">
        <!--<item name="actionOverflowButtonStyle">@style/AppTheme.OverflowButtonStyle</item>-->
        <item name="android:textColor">@color/white</item> // doesn't work
        <item name="titleTextAppearance">@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Widget.ActionBar.Title.Inverse</item>
        <item name="android:titleTextAppearance">@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Widget.ActionBar.Title.Inverse</item>
        <item name="subtitleTextAppearance">@style/TextAppearance.Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar.Subtitle</item>
    </style>

Android Solutions

Solution 1 - Android

Chances are you are extending from the wrong parent. If not, you can try adding the style to the toolbar layout directly, if you want to override the theme's settings.

In your toolbar layout:

 <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
      xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
      android:id="@+id/toolbar"
      android:layout_width="match_parent"
      android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
      android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
      app:theme="@style/ToolBarStyle"
      app:popupTheme="@style/ToolBarPopupStyle"
      android:background="@color/actionbar_color" />

In your styles:

 <!-- ToolBar -->
  <style name="ToolBarStyle" parent="Theme.AppCompat">
      <item name="android:textColorPrimary">@android:color/white</item>
      <item name="android:textColorSecondary">@android:color/white</item>
      <item name="actionMenuTextColor">@android:color/white</item>      
      <item name="actionOverflowButtonStyle">@style/ActionButtonOverflowStyle</item>
      <item name="drawerArrowStyle">@style/DrawerArrowStyle</item>
 </style>

Solution 2 - Android

Add the following as toolbar.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:id="@+id/toolbar"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
    android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
    app:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar"
    app:popupTheme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light"
    android:background="?attr/colorPrimary">

</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>

Then in the layout where you needed

<include layout="@layout/toolbar"/>

Enjoy

Solution 3 - Android

Inside Activity, you can use

    Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
    setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
    toolbar.setTitleTextColor(getResources().getColor(android.R.color.white));

If you love to choose xml for both title color & back arrow white just add this style in style.xml .

 <style name="ToolBarStyle" parent="Theme.AppCompat">
    <item name="android:textColorPrimary">@android:color/white</item>
    <item name="android:textColorSecondary">@android:color/white</item>
    <item name="actionMenuTextColor">@android:color/white</item>
</style>

And toolbar look like :

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

Solution 4 - Android

This solution might be easier. But it does require a higher API version(23). simply add this code to your toolbar in XML:

<Toolbar
    android:id="@+id/toolbar"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:minHeight="?android:attr/actionBarSize"
    android:background="?android:attr/colorPrimary"
    android:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar"
    android:popupTheme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light"
    android:titleTextColor="#ffffffff" />

Solution 5 - Android

If you use AndroidX (as of July 2019) you may add these:

<androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar
  android:id="@+id/toolbar"
  android:layout_width="match_parent"
  android:layout_height="match_parent"
  app:layout_collapseMode="pin"
  app:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.MaterialComponents.Dark.ActionBar"
  app:popupTheme="@style/ThemeOverlay.MaterialComponents.Light"/>

NOTE! This was tested to work if your Toolbar is placed directly inside AppBarLayout but not inside CollapsingToolbarLayout

Solution 6 - Android

this method helped me.

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">
        <item name="colorPrimary">@color/primary</item>
        <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/primaryDark</item>
        <item name="colorAccent">@color/highlightRed</item>
        <item name="actionBarTheme">@style/ToolbarStyle</item>
</style>

<style name="ToolbarStyle" parent="Widget.AppCompat.ActionBar">
        <item name="android:textColorPrimary">@color/white</item>
</style>

Solution 7 - Android

<android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar">

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

Solution 8 - Android

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:id="@+id/toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:background="@color/actionBar"
app:titleTextAppearance="@style/ToolbarTitleText"
app:theme="@style/ToolBarStyle">

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/title"
    style="@style/ToolbarTitleText"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_gravity="center"
    android:text="hh"/>


<!-- ToolBar -->
<style name="ToolBarStyle" parent="Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar">
    <item name="actionMenuTextColor">#ff63BBF7</item>
</style>

use app:theme="@style/ToolBarStyle"

Reference resources：http://blog.csdn.net/wyyl1/article/details/45972371

Solution 9 - Android

Add this line to Toolbar. 100% working

android:theme="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar"

Solution 10 - Android

Try this on your XML file

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
        android:id="@+id/toolbar"
        app:titleTextColor="@color/colorAccent"
        app:theme="@style/ToolbarColoredBackArrow"
        app:subtitleTextColor="@color/colorAccent"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
        android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
        app:popupTheme="@style/AppTheme.PopupOverlay" />

And add this is your colors.xml file

    <color name="colorAccent">YOUR_COLOR</color>

Solution 11 - Android

This approach worked for me using the Material Components library:

In styles.xml:

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.MaterialComponents.DayNight.NoActionBar">
    <!-- Your styles here -->

    <item name="toolbarStyle">@style/AppTheme.Toolbar</item>
</style>

<style name="AppTheme.Toolbar" parent="Widget.MaterialComponents.Toolbar">
    <item name="titleTextColor">@android:color/white</item>
</style>

Adapted from this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/48205577/238753

Solution 12 - Android

Try a lot of methods, in the low version of the API,a feasible method is <item name="actionMenuTextColor">@color/your_color</item> and don't use the Android namespace

ps:

  <style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
    <!-- Customize your theme here. -->
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/colorAccent</item>
  
    <!-- change the textColor -->
    <item name="actionMenuTextColor">@color/actionMenuTextColor</item>
</style>

Solution 13 - Android

I used placeholders so just follow along, as you might want to still keep the inheritance from the original style.

Before

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
    android:id="@+id/toolBar"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
    android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
    android:elevation="4dp"
    android:theme="@style/{{originalBaseStyle}}"
    app:popupTheme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light"/>

After:

styles.xml

<style name="{{yourToolbarStyle}}" parent="{{originalBaseStyle}}">
    <item name="android:textColorPrimary">@android:color/white</item>
    <item name="android:textColorSecondary">@android:color/white</item>
    <item name="actionMenuTextColor">@android:color/white</item>
    <item name="actionOverflowButtonStyle">@style/ActionButtonOverflowStyle</item>
    <item name="drawerArrowStyle">@style/DrawerArrowStyle</item>
</style>

Therefore

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
    android:id="@+id/toolBar"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
    android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
    android:elevation="4dp"
    android:theme="@style/{{yourToolbarStyle}}"
    app:popupTheme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light"/>

Solution 14 - Android

If we follow the activity template created by Android Studios, it's the AppBarLayout that needs to have an android theme of AppBarOverlay, which you should define in the your styles.xml. That should give you your white color toobar/actionbar color text.

<android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
    android:id="@+id/app_bar"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme.AppBarOverlay">  ...

In styles.xml, make sure the following exists:

<style name="AppTheme.AppBarOverlay" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar" />

Solution 15 - Android

To change the Toolbar's back icon drawable you can use this:
Add the <item name="toolbarStyle">@style/ToolbarStyle</item> into your Theme.
And here is the ToolbarStyle itself:

<style name="ToolbarStyle" parent="Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar">
    <item name="navigationIcon">@drawable/ic_up_indicator</item>
</style>

Solution 16 - Android

If using the latest iteration of Android Studio 3.0 and generating your Activity classes, in your styles files change this:

<style name="AppTheme.AppBarOverlay" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar" />

To this:

<style name="AppTheme.AppBarOverlay" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.ActionBar" />

Solution 17 - Android

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:id="@+id/toolbar"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:background="@color/color_primary"
    android:theme="@style/GalaxyZooThemeToolbarDarkOverflow"
    app:popupTheme="@style/Theme.AppCompat.NoActionBar" />

That toolbar theme specifies a textColorPrimary and textColorSecondary to change the color of the title text and of the menu overflow button. You could just specify the standard Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar theme for the toolbar, to get the dark text and overflow icon, but I wanted to derive from my own theme and make only small changes, because I have no idea what else might be affected.

<style name="GalaxyZooThemeToolbarDarkOverflow" parent="Theme.AppCompat.NoActionBar">


<!-- android:textColorPrimary is the  color of the title text
   in the Toolbar, in the Theme.AppCompat theme:  -->
<item name="android:textColorPrimary">@color/abc_primary_text_material_light</item>

<!-- android:textColorPrimaryInverse is the  color of the title
   text in the Toolbar, in the Theme.AppCompat.Light theme:  -->

<!-- <item name="android:textColorPrimaryInverse">@color/abc_primary_text_material_light</item> -->

This is how you can change the color of text and icons on toolbar.

For more Ref: https://www.murrayc.com/permalink/2014/10/28/android-changing-the-toolbars-text-color-and-overflow-icon-color/

Solution 18 - Android

Add this lines in Basic application theme, first for text, second for icon of menu

<item name="android:textColorPrimary">@color/colorTextWhite</item>
<item name="android:textColorSecondary">@color/colorTextWhite</item>

It would look like this

<!-- Base application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
    <!-- Customize your theme here. -->
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
    <item name="android:textColorPrimary">@color/colorTextWhite</item>
    <item name="android:textColorSecondary">@color/colorTextWhite</item>
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/colorAccent</item>
</style>
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