How to style the menu items on an Android action bar

Question

There\'s been many questions on styling on action bars, but the ones I\'ve found either are relating to styling the tabs, or have answers that don\'t work for me.

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Answer 1

BottomNavigationView navigation = (BottomNavigationView) findViewById(R.id.navigation);

    TextView textView = (TextView) navigation.findViewById(R.id.navigation_home).findViewById(R.id.smallLabel);
    textView.setTypeface(Typeface.DEFAULT_BOLD);
    textView = (TextView) navigation.findViewById(R.id.navigation_home).findViewById(R.id.largeLabel);
    textView.setTypeface(Typeface.DEFAULT_BOLD);