Changing text color of menu item in navigation drawer

 <android.support.design.widget.NavigationView        android:id="@+id/navigation_view"        android:background="#000"        android:layout_height="match_parent"        android:layout_width="match_parent"        android:layout_gravity="start"        app:headerLayout="@layout/header"        app:itemTextColor="your color"        app:menu="@menu/drawer" />

Use app:itemIconTint in your NavigationView, ej:

<android.support.design.widget.NavigationView    android:id="@+id/nav_view"    android:layout_width="wrap_content"    android:layout_height="match_parent"    android:layout_gravity="start"    app:itemTextColor="@color/customColor"    app:itemIconTint="@color/customColor"    android:fitsSystemWindows="true"    app:headerLayout="@layout/nav_header_home"    app:menu="@menu/activity_home_drawer" />

NavigationView has a method called setItemTextColor(). It uses a ColorStateList.

// FOR NAVIGATION VIEW ITEM TEXT COLORint[][] state = new int[][] {        new int[] {-android.R.attr.state_enabled}, // disabled        new int[] {android.R.attr.state_enabled}, // enabled        new int[] {-android.R.attr.state_checked}, // unchecked        new int[] { android.R.attr.state_pressed}  // pressed};int[] color = new int[] {        Color.WHITE,        Color.WHITE,        Color.WHITE,        Color.WHITE};ColorStateList csl = new ColorStateList(state, color);// FOR NAVIGATION VIEW ITEM ICON COLORint[][] states = new int[][] {        new int[] {-android.R.attr.state_enabled}, // disabled        new int[] {android.R.attr.state_enabled}, // enabled        new int[] {-android.R.attr.state_checked}, // unchecked        new int[] { android.R.attr.state_pressed}  // pressed};int[] colors = new int[] {        Color.WHITE,        Color.WHITE,        Color.WHITE,        Color.WHITE};ColorStateList csl2 = new ColorStateList(states, colors);

Here is where I got that answer. And then right after assigning my NavigationView:

if (nightMode == 0) {            navigationView.setItemTextColor(csl);            navigationView.setItemIconTintList(csl2);        }