Using a selector for a MenuItem in the ActionBar

Question

I\'m using ActionBarSherlock. I have a MenuItem, and I want to use a custom selector with only that MenuItem, not the others in the ActionBar. This is the menu code:

Answer 1

first you shall know, if you set android:selectableItemBackground in your holo style, the whole widget, i.e. a button, will have that background selector.

if you just need to change your actionbar menuitem' s icon selector background, Here is a simple answer!

just set android:actionBarItemBackground in your holo style!

hope it helpful:-)