colorAccent not working inside of a SearchBar

Question

I'm trying to change the color of the cursor inside of a SearchBar element, but I'm having trouble doing so. So far I've tried using colorAccent, but it doesn't seem to work inside of a search bar (it works for entries).

note that I'm only trying to find a solution for android.

Answer 1

Hello,

You can do the following steps to change cursor color in android.

Firstly: Define your own cursor drawable, then you can create a drawable folder in the Resources folder, you need to create a xml file called cursor_primary.xml and put following code in it. Note: If you cannnot find the @color/colorRed, please add <color name="colorRed">#ff0000</color> in your colors.xml file.

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>  
   <shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"    android:shape="rectangle">     
       <solid android:color="@color/colorRed"/>  
       <size android:width="2dp"/>  
   </shape>  

Second, you need to to use custom renderer to custom SearchBar like following code.

   [assembly: ExportRenderer(typeof(SearchBar), typeof(MySearchBarRender))]  
     
     
     
   namespace App1.Droid  
   {  
       internal class MySearchBarRender : SearchBarRenderer  
       {  
           public MySearchBarRender(Context context) : base(context)  
           {  
           }  
           protected override void OnElementChanged(ElementChangedEventArgs<SearchBar> e)  
           {  
               base.OnElementChanged(e);  
               if (Control!=null)  
               {  
                   Android.Widget.SearchView searchView = Control as Android.Widget.SearchView;  
                   Android.Widget.EditText edittext = searchView.FindViewById(Resource.Id.search_src_text) as Android.Widget.EditText;  
                   edittext.SetTextCursorDrawable(Resource.Drawable.cursor_primary);  
               }  
                
           }  
       }  
   }  

Best Regards,

Leon Lu

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