Android Question FontAwesome and Material Icons on DSNavigationDrawer [resolved]

[Anser]

I am trying to substitute MSIconicDrawable with the B4A inbuilt support for FontAwsome.

To display FontAwsome Bitmap on DSNavigation drawer, I am trying to use the Sub named TextToBitmap() shared by Erel.

How do I change the color of the Icon/Bitmap created using the Sub TextToBitmap ?. I am trying to place the Icon/Bitmap created using the Sub TextToBitmap() on the DSNavigationDrawer. DSNavigationDrawer expects either a Bitmap or BitmapDrawable to display the Icon on the Drawer.

In the following code, I tried replacing different colors, unfortunately, there seems no difference. Whatever color I use the Bitmap appears in Black color only cvs.DrawText(s, bmp.Width / 2, bmp.Height / 2 + h / 2, Typeface.FONTAWESOME, FontSize, Colors.White, "CENTER")
The code doesn't have any effect on the color of the Bitmap/icon.

'When using MSIconicDrawable, here I have the option to change the color of the icon
Dim IconHome As MSIconicDrawable  : IconHome.Initialize("gmd_home")  : IconHome.Color = 0xffff4081

'In this case how do I change the color of the icon ? ie TextToBitmap(Chr(0xF0EE), 30)
Dim oBitMap As BitmapDrawable
oBitMap.Initialize(TextToBitmap(Chr(0xF0EE), 30))

NavDrawer.NavigationView.Menu.AddWithGroup2(1, 1, 1, "Home", oBitMap  ).Checked = True
NavDrawer.NavigationView.Menu.AddWithGroup(1, 2, 2, "My Menu", TextToBitmap(Chr(0xF209), 30)  ).Checked = True

Sub TextToBitmap (s As String, FontSize As Float) As Bitmap
   Dim bmp As Bitmap
   bmp.InitializeMutable(32dip, 32dip)
   Dim cvs As Canvas
   cvs.Initialize2(bmp)
   Dim h As Double = cvs.MeasureStringHeight(s, Typeface.FONTAWESOME, FontSize)
   'Tried changing the color in the next line, but no effect on the final image. It is appearing as grey only
   cvs.DrawText(s, bmp.Width / 2, bmp.Height / 2 + h / 2, Typeface.FONTAWESOME, FontSize, Colors.White, "CENTER")
   Return bmp
End Sub

Any help will be appreciated.

 

[hanyelmehy]

To change Menu icon color and menu text color use

NavDrawer.NavigationView.ItemIconColor=Colors.RGB(0,0,0)
NavDrawer.NavigationView.ItemTextColor=Colors.RGB(255,255,255)

 

[Prosg]

and separator color ?

 

[JohnC]

The reply in post #2 allows you to set the icon color for ALL the icons in the menu.

But, I too am interested in how to set the color for each icon separately just like you can do with MSIconicDrawable method in post #1, but that method needs the long-name of the FA or MI icons you want to use, which the icon picker tool doesn't support placing in the clipboard.

Any ideas?

 

[IlCasti]

The reply in post #2 allows you to set the icon color for ALL the icons in the menu.

But, I too am interested in how to set the color for each icon separately just like you can do with MSIconicDrawable method in post #1, but that method needs the long-name of the FA or MI icons you want to use, which the icon picker tool doesn't support placing in the clipboard.

Any ideas?

You can use this code

Dim jo As JavaObject = oBitMap
Dim p As JavaObject
p.InitializeStatic("android.graphics.PorterDuff.Mode")
jo.RunMethod("setColorFilter",Array(0xFF00FF00,p.GetField("SRC_IN")))

as explained here