How to change the textcolor or queryhint textcolor of an Android SearchView in AndroidX?

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The Android searchview has default queryhint textcolor and text color . How we can change the text color of edittext in Android Searchview using AndroidX

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The searchView below is the reference variable of Searchview you are using .

JAVA:

    EditText editText = searchView.findViewById(androidx.appcompat.R.id.search_src_text);
    editText.setTextColor(Color.WHITE);
    editText.setHintTextColor(Color.GRAY);

KOTLIN

val editText = searchView.findViewById(androidx.appcompat.R.id.search_src_text)
editText.setTextColor(Color.WHITE)
user_82050990

You can do it programmatically if you wish and which is a pretty good trick, well I am telling you how to do it in XML:

  1. Go to your color.xml file which is in values under resources.

  2. You will find 3 colors defined there, Add colors there let suppose blue and orange colors like this 

    <color name="colorblue">#FF0A7FE4</color>
<color name="colororange">#F76707</color>

  3. Now got to the XML where you have that search box EditText

  4. In that editText view add attributes :

     android:textColorHint="@color/colorblue"
 android:textColor="@color/colororange"

    there you will find the hint color will be now changed to blue and the text color will now be orange.

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