How to change the Text color of Menu item in Android?

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sunil picture sunil · Aug 19, 2010 · Viewed 244.7k times · Source

Can I change the background color of a Menu item in Android?

Please let me know if anyone have any solution to this. The last option will be obviously to customize it but is there any way for changing the text color without customizing it.

Answer

Muhammad Alfaifi picture Muhammad Alfaifi · Sep 8, 2014

One simple line in your theme :)

<item name="android:actionMenuTextColor">@color/your_color</item>

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