Android Tutorial => Setting Theme for SearchView

Example

Basically to apply a theme for SearchView extracted as app:actionViewClass from the menu.xml, we need understand that it depends completely on the style applied to the underlying Toolbar. To achieve themeing the Toolbar apply the following steps.

Create a style in the styles.xml

<style name="ActionBarThemeOverlay">
     <item name="android:textColorPrimary">@color/prim_color</item>
     <item name="colorControlNormal">@color/normal_color</item>
     <item name="colorControlHighlight">@color/high_color</item>
     <item name="android:textColorHint">@color/hint_color</item>
</style>

Apply the style to the Toolbar.

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
        android:id="@+id/toolbar"
        app:theme="@style/ActionBarThemeOverlay"
        app:popupTheme="@style/ActionBarThemeOverlay"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
        android:background="@color/colorPrimary"
        android:title="@string/title"
        tools:targetApi="m" />

This gives the desired color to the all the views corresponding to the Toolbar (back button, Menu icons and SearchView).

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