How to change the color of searchbar search icon and cancel button color in xamarin forms - xamarin.forms

Question

How to change the color of searchbar icon from xaml, I want to change the cancel and search icon color of a search bar in xamarin forms application.How to implement this. Please help on this

Answer 1

As adamm said, you can modify the "cancel button color" via CancelButtonColor.
Similarly, if you want to implement a custom SearchBar in iOS, you can also create a custom renderer for it.
For UISearchBar, you can modify the color of the icon via SearchTextField.LeftView.TintColor.
[assembly: ExportRenderer(typeof(MySearchBar), typeof(MySearchBarRenderer))]
namespace searchbar.iOS
{
public class MySearchBarRenderer : SearchBarRenderer
{
protected override void OnElementChanged(ElementChangedEventArgs<SearchBar> e)
{
base.OnElementChanged(e);
if (Control != null)
{
Control.BackgroundColor = UIColor.Yellow;
UISearchBar searchbar = Control as UISearchBar;
searchbar.SearchTextField.LeftView.TintColor = UIColor.Orange;
// UPDATE
var clearButton = searchbar.SearchTextField.ValueForKey((Foundation.NSString)"clearButton") as UIButton;
//clearButton.SetTitleColor(UIColor.Blue, UIControlState.Normal);
//clearButton.TintColor = UIColor.Orange;
clearButton.SetImage(UIImage.FromBundle("CloseIcon.png"), UIControlState.Normal);
}
}
}
}

Answer 2

Cancel button color can be change by setting CancelButtonColor:
<SearchBar Placeholder="Search items..."
CancelButtonColor="Orange"
PlaceholderColor="Orange"
TextColor="Orange"
TextTransform="Lowercase"
HorizontalTextAlignment="Center"
FontSize="Medium"
FontAttributes="Italic" />
For the icon color you need to use custom renderers.
For example, on Android you can create a new file (something like SearchBar.Droid.cs) and add this in it:
using Android.Content;
using Android.Widget;
using Xamarin.Forms;
using Xamarin.Forms.Platform.Android;
[assembly: ExportRenderer(typeof(Xamarin.Forms.SearchBar), typeof(MyApp.Renderers.SearchBarIconColorCustomRenderer))]
namespace MyApp.Renderers
{
public class SearchBarIconColorCustomRenderer : SearchBarRenderer
{
public SearchBarIconColorCustomRenderer(Context context) : base(context) { }
protected override void OnElementChanged(ElementChangedEventArgs<SearchBar> e)
{
base.OnElementChanged(e);
var icon = Control?.FindViewById(Context.Resources.GetIdentifier("android:id/search_mag_icon", null, null));
(icon as ImageView)?.SetColorFilter(Color.Orange.ToAndroid());
}
}
}
Edit:
For iOS, try something like this (I didn't test it):
using UIKit;
using Xamarin.Forms;
using Xamarin.Forms.Platform.iOS;
[assembly: ExportRenderer(typeof(Xamarin.Forms.SearchBar), typeof(MyApp.iOS.Renderers.iOSSearchBarIconColorCustomRenderer))]
namespace MyApp.iOS.Renderers
{
public class iOSSearchBarIconColorCustomRenderer : SearchBarRenderer
{
protected override void OnElementChanged(ElementChangedEventArgs<SearchBar> e)
{
base.OnElementChanged(e);
if (Control != null)
{
var searchbar = (UISearchBar)Control;
searchbar.TintColor = UIColor.Orange;
}
}
}
}