Change color on back button (on ActionBar)

Question

How to change back button color in ActionBar? (From black to white color). It's screenshot with this button:

And how to change spinner arrow color on ActionBar?

change the drawable used in the toolbar! – williamj949 Sep 29 '15 at 07:25 — williamj949, Sep 29 '15 at 07:25

N J · Accepted Answer · 2016-10-13T08:46:00.953

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The following works for me with ToolBar:

<style name="MyTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat">
   <item name="drawerArrowStyle">@style/MyDrawerArrowToggle</item>
</style>

<style name="MyDrawerArrowToggle" parent="Widget.AppCompat.DrawerArrowToggle">
  <item name="color">@color/your_color</item>
</style>

EDIT

Option 2

<style name="ToolbarThemeWhite" parent="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.ActionBar">
        <item name="colorControlNormal">@color/white</item>
        <item name="android:textColorPrimary">@color/white</item>
    </style>

set this style to toolbar

edited Oct 13 '16 at 08:46

answered Sep 29 '15 at 07:26

N J

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and how to change spinner arrow color? (Your answer is correct!) – Artem Sep 29 '15 at 07:36
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see this link http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27551230/android-theme-appcompat-light-with-dark-toolbar-for-light-text – N J Sep 29 '15 at 07:44
this isn't changing anything on android 5 and 6 devices. Can you please check? – onexf Oct 13 '16 at 07:50

Kishor N R · Answer 2 · 2017-05-15T04:50:14.620

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following code sample worked for me

 <style name="AppTheme.AppBarOverlay" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar" >
    <item name="android:windowContentOverlay">@null</item>
    <!--below line used to change the color of home(back) button color-->
    <item name="colorControlNormal">@color/red</item>
</style>

edited May 15 '17 at 04:50

answered Feb 14 '17 at 12:37

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score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Apr 17 '19 at 11:55

Try to this :

In style.xml :

<style name="MyMaterialTheme.Base" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
    <item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
    <item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/colorAccent</item>
    <item name="drawerArrowStyle">@style/DrawerArrowStyle</item>
    <item name="android:textColor">@color/colorAccent</item>


</style>

<style name="DrawerArrowStyle" parent="@style/Widget.AppCompat.DrawerArrowToggle">
    <item name="spinBars">true</item>
    <item name="color">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
</style>

In Mainfests.xml:

<activity android:name=".MainActivity"
        android:theme="@style/MyMaterialTheme.Base"></activity>

Change color on back button (on ActionBar)

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EDIT

Option 2

In style.xml :

In Mainfests.xml: