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

I'm also struck with this same problem, finally i got simple solution. just added one line to action bar style.

"android:colorBackground" is enough to change option menu background