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

I've worked out that I can alter the colors for the drop-down Navigation in code, by creating my own subclass of ArrayAdapter as follows:

public class myArrayAdaptor extends ArrayAdapter {

    public myArrayAdaptor(Context context, int textViewResourceId, T[] objects) {
        super(context, textViewResourceId, objects);
    }

    public static myArrayAdaptor createFromResource(Context context, int textArrayResId, int textViewResId) {
        CharSequence[] strings = context.getResources().getTextArray(textArrayResId);
        return new myArrayAdaptor(context, textViewResId, strings);
    }

    @Override
    public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
        return SetColourWhite(super.getView(position, convertView, parent));
    }

    @Override
    public View getDropDownView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
        return SetColourWhite(super.getView(position, convertView, parent));
    }

    private View SetColourWhite(View v) {
        if (v instanceof TextView) ((TextView)v).setTextColor(Color.rgb(0xff, 0xff, 0xff)); // white
        return v;
    }
}

Then with the simple styles.xml

I can substitute the class myArrayAdaptor

SpinnerAdapter mSpinnerAdapter = ArrayAdapter.createFromResource(this, R.array.action_list, android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item)

and the text color will always be white. But isn't there a simpler way of doing this using settings in the styles.xml file?