Styling ActionBar dropdown menu

Question

I\'m using a custom theme that inherits from DarkActionBar and I want to customize dropdown menu to be white like when using Light Holo theme.

I\'ve bee

Answer 1

I answer myself after some investigation. In addition to question's styling you need to:

• Customize android:spinnerDropDownItemStyle for actionBarWidgetTheme changing it's text appearance.
• Also don't forget that dropdown list is managed by the adapter you use. Then if you used the standard one (simple_dropdown_item_1line) there's no problem. But if you used a custom one like me (to be able to add an icon) don't forget to apply style="?attr/spinnerDropDownItemStyle" in your layout TextView.

Then final custom style is:

Where drawables in myapp_DropDownNav are white background ones that you can generate with ActionBar Style generator in Android Asset Studio