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How to disable AppCompat r22.1 app bar overflow icon?

I know I can replace the icon by setting a custom actionOverflowButtonStyle

one as described here . However, this style only allows you to set different patterns and / or backgrounds.

Instead, I would like to use the standard icon provided by AppCompat, simply tint it with a specific color, just like the icon / back drawer button can be tinted using an attribute color

in drawerArrowStyle

.

I have tried these methods reportedly used to work:

  • Customization colorControlNormal

    - Toolbar Icon on Android
  • Setting textColorPrimary

    in Theme - MenuItem in AppCompat Toolbar
  • Customization actionBarStyle

    and change colorControlNormal

    there.

But as far as I can see, none of them work with the latest AppCompat - the overflow icon retains its original color (while other widgets like TextViews or the text in menu items change).

Should it be done differently? I am not using a custom view Toolbar

, just a default AppCompat supported application, similar to ActionBar.

How to reproduce:

  • Create a default Android Studio project with minimum SDK version = 9.
  • This automatically includes an empty action and a menu resource with a single Settings menu item using app:showAsAction="never"

    , which means it will show up in the overflow menu.

  • Finally, customize the file styles.xml

    . For example:

    <resources>
    <style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
        <item name="colorPrimary">#008888</item>
        <item name="colorControlNormal">#ff0000</item>
        <item name="android:textColorPrimary">#ff0000</item>
    </style>
</resources>

You will notice that no property affects the color of the overflow menu icon. Tested on Nexus 5 with Android 5.1.1.

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If you trace the theme Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar

, you can see that it installs:

<item name="actionBarTheme">@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar</item>

In turn, it inherits from Base.ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark

, which sets:

<item name="android:textColorPrimary">@color/abc_primary_text_material_dark</item>


Which is essentially equal to white:

<color name="primary_text_default_material_dark">#ffffffff</color>

If you just inherit Base.Theme.AppCompat.Light

, you won't run into this issue as it doesn't install actionBarTheme

. You can easily customize the action bar using the material properties anyway.

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