Can't change the text color with Android Action Bar drop-down navigation

Question

I\'m using Drop-down Navigation with my Action bar, and I can\'t get a sensible color for the corresponding text when using a dark action bar. The action bar itself is a da

Answer 1

Please forgive my necromancy but this really bugged me today and the solution is actually quite quick and requires no custom adapters or styling.

If you change the context in the SpinnerAdapter's constructor to use getActionBar().getThemedContext() rather than this it will show light text on a dark background that will match the Action Bar's style.

SpinnerAdapter mSpinnerAdapter = ArrayAdapter.createFromResource(getActionBar().getThemedContext(), R.array.action_list, android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);