How to change the background color of Action Bar's Option Menu in Android 5.1 & 6.0?

Question

I'd like to change the background color of the option (overflow) menu in Android above 5.0. I have tried all the methods but it is still showing the default color set by the theme. I used the following code & XML configs.

Answer 1

There is an easy way to change the colors in Actionbar Use ActionBar Generator and copy paste all file in your res folder and change your theme in Android.manifest file.

Other way is to modify your styles.xml like this-

<resources>
<!-- Base application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">
    <!-- This is the styling for action bar -->
    <item name="actionBarStyle">@style/MyActionBar</item>
    <!--To change the text styling of options menu items</item>-->
    <item name="android:itemTextAppearance">@style/MyActionBar.MenuTextStyle</item>
    <!--To change the background of options menu-->
    <item name="android:itemBackground">@color/skyBlue</item>
</style>

<style name="MyActionBar" parent="@style/Widget.AppCompat.Light.ActionBar.Solid.Inverse">
    <item name="background">@color/red</item>
    <item name="titleTextStyle">@style/MyActionBarTitle</item>
</style>

<style name="MyActionBarTitle" parent="@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Widget.ActionBar.Title">
    <item name="android:textColor">@color/white</item>
</style>

<style name="MyActionBar.MenuTextStyle"
    parent="style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Widget.ActionBar.Title">
    <item name="android:textColor">@color/red</item>
    <item name="android:textStyle">bold</item>
    <item name="android:textSize">25sp</item>
</style>

and this is how it looks--MenuItem background color is skyblue and MenuItem text color is pink with textsize as 25sp:--

This answer is taken from here.