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I'm adding a BottomNavigationView to a project, and I would like to have a different text (and icon tint) color for the selected tab (to achieve greying out non-selected tabs effect). Using a different color with android:state_selected="true" in a color selector resource file doesn't seem to work. I also tried having additional item entries with android:state_focused="true" or android:state_enabled="true", no effect unfortunately. Also tried setting the state_selected attribute to false (explicitly) for the default (non-selected) color, with no luck.

Here is how I add the view to my layout:

android:id="@+id/bottom_navigation"

android:layout_width="match_parent"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"

app:itemBackground="@color/silver"

app:itemIconTint="@color/bnv_tab_item_foreground"

app:itemTextColor="@color/bnv_tab_item_foreground"

app:menu="@menu/bottom_nav_bar_menu" />

Here is my color selector (bnv_tab_item_foreground.xml):

And my menu resource (bottom_nav_bar_menu.xml):

android:id="@+id/action_home"

android:icon="@drawable/ic_local_taxi_black_24dp"

android:title="@string/home" />

android:id="@+id/action_rides"

android:icon="@drawable/ic_local_airport_black_24dp"

android:title="@string/rides"/>

android:id="@+id/action_cafes"

android:icon="@drawable/ic_local_cafe_black_24dp"

android:title="@string/cafes"/>

android:id="@+id/action_hotels"

android:icon="@drawable/ic_local_hotel_black_24dp"

android:title="@string/hotels"/>

I would appreciate any help.