Changing action bar searchview hint text color

Question

How can I change the action bar search view hint text colour?

This question explains how to get the EditText when using ABS: Android ActionBar Customize Search View

Is there a android.R.id I could use to get a reference to the EditText so I could change the hint colour? Or is there some other way to change the colour?

Answer 1

Also you can set the SearchView on your menuItem manually and thereby have full control over the view.

Answer 2

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);

Answer 3

Just get the textView id of search widget and use setTextColor() method to change the search text color and setHintTextColor() to change the search hints text color.

// Get textview id of search widget
int id =  searchView.getContext().getResources().getIdentifier("android:id/search_src_text", null, null);
TextView textView = (TextView) searchView.findViewById(id);

// Set search text color
textView.setTextColor(Color.WHITE);

// Set search hints color
textView.setHintTextColor(Color.GRAY);

Answer 4

Look to this class, it can help you to solve your problem

import android.R.color;
import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.Typeface;
import android.widget.ImageView;

import com.actionbarsherlock.widget.SearchView;
import com.actionbarsherlock.widget.SearchView.SearchAutoComplete;

public class MySearchView {

    public static SearchView getSearchView(Context context, String strHint) {
        SearchView searchView = new SearchView(context);
        searchView.setQueryHint(strHint);
        searchView.setFocusable(true);
        searchView.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
        searchView.requestFocus();
        searchView.requestFocusFromTouch();

        ImageView searchBtn = (ImageView) searchView.findViewById(R.id.abs__search_button);
        searchBtn.setImageResource(R.drawable.ic_menu_search);

        // ImageView searchBtnClose = (ImageView) searchView.findViewById(R.id.abs__search_close_btn);
        // searchBtnClose.setImageResource(R.drawable.ic_cancel_search_bar);


        SearchAutoComplete searchText = (SearchAutoComplete) searchView.findViewById(R.id.abs__search_src_text);
        setFont(context, searchText);
        searchText.setTextColor(context.getResources().getColor(color.white));
        searchText.setHintTextColor(context.getResources().getColor(color.white));

        return searchView;
    }

    private static void setFont(Context _context, SearchAutoComplete searchText) {
        Typeface tf = null;
        Typeface currentType = searchText.getTypeface();
        if (currentType == null) {
            tf = MyApplication.fontNormal;
        }
        else {
            int currentStyle = currentType.getStyle();
            if (currentStyle == Typeface.BOLD) {
                tf = MyApplication.fontBold;
            }
            else if (currentStyle == Typeface.BOLD_ITALIC) {
                tf = MyApplication.fontBoldItalic;
            }
            else if (currentStyle == Typeface.ITALIC) {
                tf = MyApplication.fontItalic;
            }
            else {
                tf = MyApplication.fontNormal;
            }
        }
        searchText.setTypeface(tf);
    }

    public static SearchView getSearchView(Context context, int strHintRes) {
        return getSearchView(context, context.getString(strHintRes));
    }
}

Answer 5

This is really simple to achieve using the styles.xml Just understand that themeing the SearchView is directly related to the theme of the Toolbar from whose menu.xml it is fetched as a app:actionViewClass.

1. Create a style for Toolbar.
2. Apply that style as theme on the Toolbar and it changes al the related views and their properties.

Answer 6

I resolved it adding this property to the main theme:

<style name="AppTheme" parent="AppBaseTheme">
    .....
    .....
    <item name="android:actionBarWidgetTheme">@style/MyActionBarWidgetTheme</item> 
</style>

And then add the property i want to change in this case the hint color.

<style name="MyActionBarWidgetTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme.Holo">
    .....
    .....
    <item name="android:textColorHint">@color/blanco_60</item>
</style>

Hope it helps :D