Styling a SearchView in Android Action Bar

Question

I have a search widget in my Action Bar like this:

(1) How do I change

Answer 1

in onCreateOptionsMenu :

int id = searchView.getContext()
                   .getResources()
                   .getIdentifier("android:id/search_src_text", null, null);
    TextView textView = (TextView) searchView.findViewById(id);
    textView.setTextColor(Color.WHITE);