Style appcompat-v7 Toolbar menu background

Question

I\'m trying to styling my appcompat-v7 toolbar to have a different background color for my overflow menu. I tried to use the themes for my app and styles for my toolbar, bu

Answer 1

Add this to your toolbar element

app:popupTheme="@style/ThemeOverlay.YourPopup"

Then in your styles.xml define the popup menu style

Note that you need to use android:colorBackground and never android:background. The latter would be applied to everything that doesn't have a background (here the menu itself and each menu item), the former applies only to the popup menu.

Update: The same applies to textColorPrimary and textColor.

• Popup menu item defines android:textColor="?android:textColorPrimary".
• android:textColorPrimary is a theme attribute, it's defined on themes.
• android:textColor is a style attribute, it's defined on widgets.
• If we defined android:textColor in a theme, it would be applied to every widget that doesn't define its own android:textColor.