Changing action bar searchview hint text color
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.
searchView.setQueryHint(Html.fromHtml("<font color = #ffffff>" + getResources().getString(R.string.hintSearchMess) + "</font>"));
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);