How to change the background color of Action Bar's Option Menu in Android 4.2?

Question

I\'d like to change the background color of the option (overflow) menu in Android 4.2. I have tried all the methods but it is still showing the default color set by the them

Answer 1

In case people are still visiting for a working solution, here is what worked for me:-- This is for Appcompat support library. This is in continuation to ActionBar styling explained here

Following is the styles.xml file.

and this is how it looks--MenuItem background color is skyblue and MenuItem text color is pink with textsize as 25sp:--