Change color of ToolBarItem in XAML

Question

I've added a toolbaritem in my app, however i dont see a way to change its background and text color.

<ContentPage.ToolbarItems>

    <ToolbarItem Text="About" 
                 Icon="ic_action_more_vert.png"
                 Priority="0"
                 Order="Secondary"
                 Clicked="ToolbarItem_Clicked"/>

    <ToolbarItem Text="Settings"
                 Icon="ic_action_more_vert.png"
                 Priority="0"
                 Order="Secondary"/>

</ContentPage.ToolbarItems>

This is what I'd like changed. The black menu with white text, want to change that bg color and text color. Any idea how to achieve this?

I think you will have to do this by Android styling/theming – Gerald Versluis Jul 26 '17 at 09:54 — Gerald Versluis, Jul 26 '17 at 09:54

score 12 · Answer 1 · answered May 18 '18 at 15:40

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I found a solution :https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/40529/toolbaritem-textcolor

Simple add to "styles.xml":

<item name="android:actionMenuTextColor"> @color/orange </item>

I've spent hours looking for it..

answered May 18 '18 at 15:40

Guillermo Daniel Arias

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Your approach totally works, however, I have a menu, page title and next. so the color being change is only the secondary which is next, page title still white.any idea? – Pxaml Aug 28 '18 at 19:40

Grace Feng · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-27T07:04:42.737

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As @Gerald Versluis suggested, you can do this by Android styling.

Firstly you can find the styles.xml file under the values folder of Resources in Android project:

Inside of this file, you can open this file and create a style for your menu like this:

<style name="AppToolbarTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.NoActionBar">
  <item name="android:colorBackground">#2196F3</item>
  <item name="android:textColor">#000080</item>
</style>

Then open the Toolbar.axml in android project

and change the app:popupTheme of Toolbar like this:

app:popupTheme="@style/AppToolbarTheme"

Update:

Here is the code of Toolbar:

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:id="@+id/toolbar"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
    android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
    android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
    android:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar"
    app:popupTheme="@style/AppToolbarTheme" />

edited Jul 27 '17 at 07:04

answered Jul 27 '17 at 02:34

Grace Feng

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@Curiousity, are you using XF for development? What is the version? – Grace Feng Jul 27 '17 at 05:18
Yes I'm using XF. Version - 4.5 – Curiosity Jul 27 '17 at 05:26
@Curiousity, version 4.5? By my side the latest version is 2.3.4.247, try to clean and rebuild your project, if problem still exists, show me your styles.xml. – Grace Feng Jul 27 '17 at 05:30
Very sorry. My mistake. The version is 2.3.4.247. Same as yours. And I tried cleaning and rebuilding the project several times. May be I'm missing something. But I did as above. – Curiosity Jul 27 '17 at 05:37
@Curiousity, can you please show me all code of your styles.xml and toolbar.axml? Or try to create a new project and this code again. – Grace Feng Jul 27 '17 at 06:03
Hi @GraceFeng-MSFT , how do i change the code in Toolbar.axml? currently it shows a blank phone screen with no code :/ – Jul 27 '17 at 06:48
@Unicorn_Girl, you can right click on it and open with "XML (Text) Editor", if you double click on this file, then in the down-left side of screen, click the `Source` button. – Grace Feng Jul 27 '17 at 06:52
@GraceFeng-MSFT, Im getting this error - the "http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android:popupTheme" attribute is not declared. In my toolbar.axml , I have this: android:popupTheme="@style/AppToolBarTheme" /> and in styles.xml I have this: – Jul 27 '17 at 07:01
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@Unicorn_Girl, change `android:popupTheme` to `app:popupTheme`, actually by default there is the theme defined for this property, just change the style to the one we defined (AppToolBarTheme) in styles.xml. – Grace Feng Jul 27 '17 at 07:03
@Unicorn_Girl, whatever, I edited my answer and post the whole code of `Toolbar`, you may check it. – Grace Feng Jul 27 '17 at 07:05
@GraceFeng-MSFT, It is working now :D . Thanks so much – Jul 27 '17 at 07:09
this saved my life. <3 How on earth can you discover such method like this? @GraceFeng because all the resources in XF are unlike Android Studio which can easily be discover from IntelliSense. – elliotching Jun 07 '18 at 12:05
We are in 2021 now, and nothing helps. Android 11 SDK, Xamarin Forms 5.0.0.2196, and menu is still white on black. – Vova l Oct 21 '21 at 15:01

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 08 '20 at 16:28

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This worked for me

In styles.xml

<item name="android:actionMenuTextColor">#000080</item>

answered Apr 08 '20 at 16:28

Victor Hugo Terceros

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score 0 · Answer 4 · edited Dec 09 '19 at 18:28

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To change first item text edit android:theme android:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light" or android:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar" for second item text edit popupTheme

edited Dec 09 '19 at 18:28

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answered Dec 09 '19 at 14:36

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Change color of ToolBarItem in XAML

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