How to change Options menu dots color?

android colors menu options
Sid picture Sid · Feb 17, 2016 · Viewed 44k times · Source

I want to change Options menu's dots color to white. I tried to add image for this but dose not work. How to do this?

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menu xml :

 <menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    tools:context="com.example.siddhi.timetablelayout.Main2Activity">

    <item android:id="@+id/action_settings" android:title="@string/action_settings"
        android:orderInCategory="100" app:showAsAction="never"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_more_vert_white_48dp"/>
</menu>

Thank you.

Answer

ayz4sci picture ayz4sci · Feb 17, 2016

Put it in your style.xml in AppTheme:

<!-- android:textColorSecondary is the color of the menu overflow icon (three vertical dots) -->
<item name="android:textColorSecondary">@color/white</item>

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