How to change Menu Item Color & Size programmatically?

Question

I searched a lot in google and found in stackoverflow one link how to change color of text using styles and themes but I dont know how to use in code.

Answer 1

@ 0101100101 just change the menu.IconmenutItem to menu.ActionMenuItemView

Answer 2

I am using the following. Put this method in your activity and call it in the onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) method. You can instead of setting the backgroundResource just set a color... just type view.setbackground and see the possibilities via autocompletion ;)

/*
 * IconMenuItemView is the class that creates and controls the options menu
 * which is derived from basic View class. So We can use a LayoutInflater
 * object to create a view and apply the background.
 */
protected void setMenuBackground() {

    Log.d(TAG, "Enterting setMenuBackGround");
    getLayoutInflater().setFactory(new Factory() {

        public View onCreateView(String name, Context context,
                AttributeSet attrs) {

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

                try { // Ask our inflater to create the view
                    LayoutInflater f = getLayoutInflater();
                    final View view = f.createView(name, null, attrs);

                    /*
                     * The background gets refreshed each time a new item is
                     * added the options menu. So each time Android applies
                     * the default background we need to set our own
                     * background. This is done using a thread giving the
                     * background change as runnable object
                     */
                    new Handler().post(new Runnable() {
                        public void run() {

                            view
                                    .setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.row_blue_menu);
                        }
                    });
                    return view;
                } catch (InflateException e) {
                } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
                }
            }
            return null;
        }
    });
}

.

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

Answer 3

try this code to change background and text color....

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
    inflater.inflate(R.menu.my_menu, menu);
    getLayoutInflater().setFactory(new Factory() {
    @Override
    public View onCreateView(String name, Context context,
                    AttributeSet attrs) {
                if (name.equalsIgnoreCase("com.android.internal.view.menu.IconMenuItemView")) {
                try {
                    LayoutInflater f = getLayoutInflater();
                    final View view = f.createView(name, null, attrs);
                    new Handler().post(new Runnable() {
                            public void run() {
                            // set the background drawable
                                view.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.my_ac_menu_background);

                            // set the text color
                                ((TextView) view).setTextColor(Color.WHITE);
                            }
                        });
                        return view;
                    } catch (InflateException e) {
                    } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
                    }
                }
                return null;
            }
        });
        return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
    }