Android menu item background

Question

I want to change the menu item background beacuse I use black icons, but on some phones the default color of background is black or other dark color. I tried this solution a

Answer 1

The style attribute for the menu background is android:panelFullBackground. It's not hackish like the other solution, so it's not as buggy.

Despite what the documentation says, it needs to be a resource (e.g. @android:color/black or @drawable/my_drawable), it will crash if you use a color value directly.