how to change Android overflow menu icon

android android-3.0-honeycomb
newdev picture newdev · Jul 22, 2011 · Viewed 21.7k times · Source

How do i change the Overflow Menu icon on the far right of the action bar as seen in the image below? My Holo theme specifies this 3 row black stack icon by default and i want something else. i can't seem to find a solution for this. I have looked at the documentation on http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/menus.html but it doesn't seem to lend much help.

Thanks!

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Answer

intra picture intra · Apr 15, 2012

You can try something like this:

<style name="MyTheme" parent="android:style/Theme.Holo.Light">
     <item name="android:actionOverflowButtonStyle">@style/MyActionButtonOverflow</item>
</style>

<style name="MyActionButtonOverflow" parent="android:style/Widget.Holo.ActionButton.Overflow">
    <item name="android:src">@drawable/my_action_bTutton_overflow</item>
</style>

and in AndroidManifest.xml

<application
    android:theme="@style/MyTheme" >

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