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 used this and it works just fine.

Apply this code in the onCreate() function

val actionBar: android.support.v7.app.ActionBar? = supportActionBar
    actionBar?.setBackgroundDrawable(ColorDrawable(Color.parseColor("Your color code here")))