Is it possible to change the textcolor on an Android SearchView?
Add
<item name="android:editTextColor">@android:color/white</item>to the parent theme and that should change the entered text. You can also use
<item name="android:textColorHint">@android:color/white</item>to change the hint text color for the SearchView. (Note that you can replace the @android:color/white with whatever appropriate value you're hoping to use)
Try something like this :You would get a handle to the textview from the sdk and then change it since they don't expose it publicly.
int id = searchView.getContext().getResources().getIdentifier("android:id/search_src_text", null, null);TextView textView = (TextView) searchView.findViewById(id);textView.setTextColor(Color.WHITE);
This works for me.
SearchView searchView = (SearchView) findViewById(R.id.search);EditText searchEditText = (EditText) searchView.findViewById(android.support.v7.appcompat.R.id.search_src_text);searchEditText.setTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.white));searchEditText.setHintTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.white));