How can I change the Options menu background for Android 2.3?

Question

I have the same standard options menu, but I want to change the background of the items from white to black. I\'ve seen many postings about how to do it, but those don\'t wo

Answer 1

The below code is working fine 2.3.6(test on device and emulator). It is almost copied & combined from different sites from google search

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
    inflater.inflate(R.menu.menu, menu);
    setMenuBackground();
    return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
}

protected void setMenuBackground() {
    getLayoutInflater().setFactory(new Factory() {
     @Override
                public View onCreateView(final String name, final Context context,
                        final AttributeSet attrs) {

                    if (name.equalsIgnoreCase("com.android.internal.view.menu.IconMenuItemView")) {

                        try { // Ask our inflater to create the view
                            final LayoutInflater f = getLayoutInflater();
                            final View[] view = new View[1];
                            try {
                                view[0] = f.createView(name, null, attrs);
                            } catch (InflateException e) {
                                hackAndroid23(name, attrs, f, view);
                            }
                            // Kind of apply our own background
                            new Handler().post(new Runnable() {
                                public void run() {
                                    view[0].setBackgroundColor(Color.BLUE);

                                }
                            });
                            return view[0];
                        } catch (InflateException e) {
                        } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {

                        }
                    }
                    return null;
                }
            });
        }

        static void hackAndroid23(final String name,
                final android.util.AttributeSet attrs, final LayoutInflater f,
                final View[] view) {
            try {
                f.inflate(new XmlPullParser() {
                    @Override
                    public int next() throws XmlPullParserException, IOException {
                        try {
                            view[0] = (TextView) f.createView(name, null, attrs);
                        } catch (InflateException e) {
                        } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
                        }
                        throw new XmlPullParserException("exit");
                    }

                    @Override
                    public void defineEntityReplacementText(String entityName,
                            String replacementText)
                            throws XmlPullParserException {
                        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

                    }

                    @Override
                    public int getAttributeCount() {
                        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                        return 0;
                    }

                    @Override
                    public String getAttributeName(int index) {
                        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                        return null;
                    }

                    @Override
                    public String getAttributeNamespace(int index) {
                        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                        return null;
                    }

                    @Override
                    public String getAttributePrefix(int index) {
                        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                        return null;
                    }

                    @Override
                    public String getAttributeType(int index) {
                        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                        return null;
                    }

                    @Override
                    public String getAttributeValue(int index) {
                        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                        return null;
                    }

                    @Override
                    public String getAttributeValue(String namespace,
                            String name) {
                        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                        return null;
                    }

                    @Override
                    public int getColumnNumber() {
                        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                        return 0;
                    }

                    @Override
                    public int getDepth() {
                        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                        return 0;
                    }

                    @Override
                    public int getEventType() throws XmlPullParserException {
                        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                        return 0;
                    }

                    @Override
                    public boolean getFeature(String name) {
                        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                        return false;
                    }

                    @Override
                    public String getInputEncoding() {
                        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                        return null;
                    }

                    @Override
                    public int getLineNumber() {
                        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                        return 0;
                    }

                    @Override
                    public String getName() {
                        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                        return null;
                    }

                    @Override
                    public String getNamespace() {
                        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                        return null;
                    }

                    @Override
                    public String getNamespace(String prefix) {
                        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                        return null;
                    }

                    @Override
                    public int getNamespaceCount(int depth)
                            throws XmlPullParserException {
                        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                        return 0;
                    }

                    @Override
                    public String getNamespacePrefix(int pos)
                            throws XmlPullParserException {
                        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                        return null;
                    }

                    @Override
                    public String getNamespaceUri(int pos)
                            throws XmlPullParserException {
                        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                        return null;
                    }

                    @Override
                    public String getPositionDescription() {
                        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                        return null;
                    }

                    @Override
                    public String getPrefix() {
                        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                        return null;
                    }

                    @Override
                    public Object getProperty(String name) {
                        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                        return null;
                    }

                    @Override
                    public String getText() {
                        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                        return null;
                    }

                    @Override
                    public char[] getTextCharacters(
                            int[] holderForStartAndLength) {
                        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                        return null;
                    }

                    @Override
                    public boolean isAttributeDefault(int index) {
                        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                        return false;
                    }

                    @Override
                    public boolean isEmptyElementTag()
                            throws XmlPullParserException {
                        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                        return false;
                    }

                    @Override
                    public boolean isWhitespace() throws XmlPullParserException {
                        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                        return false;
                    }

                    @Override
                    public int nextTag() throws XmlPullParserException,
                            IOException {
                        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                        return 0;
                    }

                    @Override
                    public String nextText() throws XmlPullParserException,
                            IOException {
                        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                        return null;
                    }

                    @Override
                    public int nextToken() throws XmlPullParserException,
                            IOException {
                        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                        return 0;
                    }

                    @Override
                    public void require(int type, String namespace, String name)
                            throws XmlPullParserException, IOException {
                        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

                    }

                    @Override
                    public void setFeature(String name, boolean state)
                            throws XmlPullParserException {
                        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

                    }

                    @Override
                    public void setInput(Reader in)
                            throws XmlPullParserException {
                        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

                    }

                    @Override
                    public void setInput(InputStream inputStream,
                            String inputEncoding) throws XmlPullParserException {
                        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

                    }

                    @Override
                    public void setProperty(String name, Object value)
                            throws XmlPullParserException {
                        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

                    }
                }, null, false);
            } catch (InflateException e1) {
                // "exit" ignored
            }
        }