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change the android actionbar submenu text color

How to change the text color of submenu in Android? I customize the application theme and override the relative attributes, but it still doesn't work. My menu has two submenus, which are initially hidden, when clicked, it shows. However, the style of submenus can't be modified, while the title of action bar can. This question bothers me all the day, I almost try every ways I find.
This is my code!
menu.xml
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
tools:context="com.example.classsignin.MainActivity" >
<item
android:id="#+id/action_overflow"
android:title="分享"
android:icon="#drawable/drop_select"
android:showAsAction="always"
>
<menu >
<item
android:id="#+id/absent"
android:title="请假"
android:icon="#drawable/absent"
/>
<item
android:id="#+id/refresh"
android:title="刷新课程"
android:icon="#drawable/refresh"
/>
</menu>
</item>
styles.xml
<style name="CustomTheme" parent="#android:style/Theme.Holo.Light">
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/MyActionBarTheme</item>
<item name="android:actionMenuTextAppearance">#style/MyActionBarMenu</item>
<item name="android:actionMenuTextColor">#color/blue</item>
<item name="android:homeAsUpIndicator">#drawable/back</item>
<item name="android:spinnerItemStyle">#style/MySpinnerItem</item>
</style>
<style name="MyActionBarTheme" parent="#android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar">
<item name="android:background">#color/white</item>
<item name="android:titleTextStyle">#style/MyActionBarTitle</item>
</style>
<style name="MyActionBarTitle" parent="#android:style/TextAppearance.Holo.Widget.ActionBar.Title">
<item name="android:textSize">16sp</item>
<item name="android:textColor">#color/blue</item>
</style>
<style name="MyActionBarMenu" parent="#android:style/TextAppearance.Holo.Widget.ActionBar.Menu">
<item name="android:textSize">16sp</item>
<item name="android:textColor">#color/blue</item>
</style>
<style name="MySpinnerItem" parent="#android:style/Widget.Holo.TextView.SpinnerItem">
<item name="android:textAppearance">#style/MyTextAppearance</item>
</style>
<style name="MyTextAppearance" parent="#android:style/TextAppearance.Holo.Widget.TextView.SpinnerItem">
<item name="android:textColor">#color/blue</item>
</style>

Essentially you will want to customise your MenuItem's style by having the android:itemBackground attribute overridden with your custom color/drawable selector in your style.xml and as well a vtextColor` attribute to override.
In case your menu has also submenu's, then you will want as well to style the header title of the submenu, which usually is automatically with White background by overriding the attribute actionBarPopupTheme with your custom style.
style.xml
<resources>
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.DayNight.DarkActionBar">
<item name="android:itemBackground">#drawable/menu_popup_selector</item>
<item name="actionBarPopupTheme">#style/SubmenuHeaderStyle</item>
</style>
<style name="SubmenuHeaderStyle" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light">
<item name="android:colorBackground">#color/colorPrimary</item>
<item name="android:textColor">#color/colorAccent</item>
</style>
</resources>
menu_popup_selector.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:state_pressed="true">
<color
android:color="#color/colorPrimary"/>
</item>
<item>
<color
android:color="#655611"/>
</item>
</selector>
And you will have something like those screenshots
(1st menu and then the submenu after clicking one item on the 1st menu - the pink header is my submenu header).
Just for you to know when I have the normal menu without submenu would look like this hierarchy views:
<menu>
<item/>
<item/>
<item/>
</menu>
and a menu with submenu as this example of hierarchy views:
<menu>
<item/>
<item/>
<group>
<item>
<menu>
item
item
item
</menu>
</item>
</group>
<item/>
<item/>
</menu>

Customize back button on ActionBar (Android)

in my app i added back button on ActionBar but this is not visible properly because of dark theme of ActionBar. both ActionBar and back Button are black in color so back button is not visible.
i added this code in values.xml file
<style name="Theme.MyFancyTheme" parent="android:Theme.Holo">
<item name="android:homeAsUpIndicator">#drawable/up</item>
</style>
and set.
minSdkVersion="14"
but it's not showing custom back buttom.

In the res/values/styles.xml file put some custom style:
<style name="AppThemeWithBackButton" parent="android:Theme.Holo.Light">
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/ActionBar</item>
<item name="android:actionMenuTextColor">#color/white</item>
<item name="android:homeAsUpIndicator">#drawable/actionbar_back_button</item>
</style>
<style name="ActionBar" parent="android:Widget.ActionBar">
<item name="android:background">#drawable/actionbar_background</item>
<item name="android:displayOptions">useLogo|homeAsUp|showTitle</item>
<item name="android:titleTextStyle">#style/TitleText</item>
</style>
<style name="TitleText" parent="android:TextAppearance.Holo.Widget.ActionBar.Title">
<item name="android:textColor">#color/white</item>
<item name="android:textAllCaps">false</item>
</style>
and use drawable/actionbar_back_button.xml layout:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item
android:left="16dp"
android:right="16dp"
android:drawable="#drawable/back_icon" />
</layer-list>
and use drawable/actionbar_background.xml layout.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<solid android:color="#color/action_bar_color" />
</shape>
Above all code is regarding of customizing actinobar button and background. You can modify it as you want. Hope it will help you. Enjoy!!!

Dividers for the actionbar menu items

I am developing Tablet android application. Here i got one issue with the UI of the action bar menu items.
Note: I am using android Native actionbar.
1) How to show divider between menu items like as show in the image.
I tried with divider styles and custom styles but it doesn`t reflect in my action bar.
2) How can I add multiple menu items into a single menu item like as show in the picture.
I tried with custom layout but overflow menu for the items is not showing.
I tried with PopupMenu for the overflow menu but the icon is not visible in overflow list.
Here I was using styles for the action bar application, styles.xml
<resources xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<style name="AppTheme" parent="#android:style/Theme.Holo.Light">
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/AppTheme.ActionBar</item>
<item name="android:textAllCaps">false</item>
<item name="android:actionMenuTextAppearance">#style/AppTheme.ActionBar.MenuTextStyle</item>
<item name="android:actionOverflowButtonStyle">#style/OverFlow</item>
<item name="android:divider">#color/dividercolor</item>
</style>
<style name="OverFlow" parent="#android:style/Widget.Holo.ActionButton.Overflow">
<item name="android:src">#drawable/ic_actionbar_dots</item>
</style>
<style name="AppTheme.ActionBar" parent="#android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar">
<item name="android:background">#drawable/actionbar_background</item>
<item name="android:height">100dip</item>
<item name="android:titleTextStyle">#style/AppTheme.ActionBar.Text</item>
<item name="android:textColor">#color/white</item>
<item name="android:divider">#drawable/divider</item>
<item name="android:showDividers">beginning</item>
<item name="android:dividerPadding">10dp</item>
</style>
<style name="AppTheme.ActionBar.MenuTextStyle" parent="android:style/TextAppearance.Holo.Widget.ActionBar.Menu">
<item name="android:textAllCaps">false</item>
<item name="android:textColor">#color/white</item>
<item name="android:textSize">26sp</item>
</style>
<style name="AppTheme.ActionBar.Text" parent="#android:style/TextAppearance">
<item name="android:textAllCaps">false</item>
<item name="android:textColor">#color/white</item>
</style>
menu.xml
<group android:id="#+id/menu_mainGroup" >
<item
android:id="#+id/connection"
android:icon="#drawable/nw_pt_calc"
android:showAsAction="always"
android:title=" ">
</item>
<item
android:id="#+id/status_menu"
android:actionLayout="#layout/application_status_overflowmenu"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText">
</item>
<!--
<item
android:id="#+id/status"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_available"
android:showAsAction="always"
>
<menu>
<item
android:id="#+id/status1"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_available"
android:showAsAction="always"
android:title="#string/menu_available">
</item>
<item
android:id="#+id/status2"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_busy"
android:showAsAction="always"
android:title="#string/menu_busy">
</item>
<item
android:id="#+id/status3"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_logoff"
android:showAsAction="always"
android:title="#string/menu_logoff">
</item>
</menu>
</item>
<item
android:id="#+id/display_pic"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_person"
android:showAsAction="always">
</item>
<item
android:id="#+id/display_name"
android:showAsAction="always">
</item>
-->
<item
android:id="#+id/menu_search"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_search"
android:showAsAction="always"
android:visible="false">
</item>
<item
android:id="#+id/help"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_help"
android:showAsAction="always"
android:visible="false">
</item>
<item
android:id="#+id/about"
android:showAsAction="never"
android:title="#string/about">
</item>
<!--
<item
android:id="#+id/notification_history"
android:showAsAction="never"
android:title="#string/notification_history">
</item>
<item
android:id="#+id/comm_msg_history"
android:showAsAction="never"
android:title="#string/comm_msg_history">
</item>
-->
</group>
Help will be appreciated. Thanks looking forward to hear answers from geeks :).

I don't know if you have resolved your problem. But I can explain you just in case.
First of all, to customize the divider in your ActionBar, you must to do this in your Theme with the parent ActionButton. You do this:
<style name="AppTheme" parent="#android:style/Theme.Holo.Light">
<item name="android:divider">#color/dividercolor</item>
</style>
<style name="AppTheme.ActionBar" parent="#android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar">
<item name="android:divider">#drawable/divider</item>
</style>
Try this way:
<style name="AppTheme" parent="#android:style/Theme.Holo.Light">
<item name="android:actionButtonStyle">#style/ActionButton</item>
<item name="android:actionBarDivider">#color/blue</item>
<item name="actionBarDivider">#color/blue</item>
</style>
<style name="ActionButton" parent="#android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionButton">
<item name="android:background">#color/blue</item>
</style>
You can read the solution here: Can't change color of actionBar divider and there: ActionBar MenuItem Divider.
Then, you can create a 9-Patch drawable to look like exactly at your image. Try to use something like this image:
The black border indicate where expand your image. I did it on the left/right sides to expand your divider on its height. You can read Draw 9-patch from the Documentation to know how use the Draw 9-Patch tool in the sdk.
Or, you can make it in xml, something like below:
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<!-- first line vertical blue -->
<item android:left="1dp">
<shape android:shape="line">
<stroke
android:color="#color/blue"
android:width="1dp" />
</shape>
</item>
<!-- second line vertical white -->
<item android:right="1dp">
<shape android:shape="line">
<stroke
android:color="#color/white"
android:width="1dp" />
</shape>
</item>
</layer-list>
After that, you just have to declare it in your style.xml as:
<item ...>#drawable/blue_divider</item>.
Now you have customize divider (=
Then, your custom layout in ActionBar.
It's possible to do as below:
ActionBar actionBar = getActionBar();
actionBar.setCustomView(R.layout.application_status_overflowmenu);
actionBar.setDisplayOptions(ActionBar.DISPLAY_SHOW_CUSTOM|
ActionBar.DISPLAY_SHOW_HOME);
And application_status_overflowmenu.xml will be something like:
<RelativeLayout
android="#+id/theCustomIcon"
android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_gravity="right" android:gravity="center"
android:paddingLeft="10dp" android:paddingRight="10dp"
android:clickable="true" >
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/blockCustomIcon"
android:layout_width="50dp" android:layout_height="50dp"
android:src="#drawable/green_block"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true" />
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imgCustomIcon"
android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/green_block"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/blockCustomIcon" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/txtCustomIcon"
android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:src="#drawable/green_block"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:gravity="left" />
</RelativeLayout>
And finally, you can have access to the Views to update the items:
TextView text = (TextView) actionBar.getCustomView().findViewById(R.id.txtCustomIcon);
text.setText("Emily Nichols");
That's all!
If your menu options disappears, check if your onCreateOptionsMenu is inflating a good layout and if it return true. You can also add the custom item in front of options menu or add item dynamically. I let you do this as you want.
I hope this will be useful and it will helpful too.

Can't change background of ActionBar Sherlock

I have ActionBar Sherlockwith ViewPagerIndicatorlike here.
I'm trying to change ActionBarbackground but it does nothing.
Here is my code:
AndroidManifest.xml
<application
//...
android:theme="#style/StyledIndicators" >
styles_mystyle.xml
<resources xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<style name="Theme.Mystyle" parent="#style/Theme.Sherlock.Light">
<item name="actionBarItemBackground">#drawable/selectable_background_mystyle</item>
<item name="popupMenuStyle">#style/PopupMenu.Mystyle</item>
<item name="dropDownListViewStyle">#style/DropDownListView.Mystyle</item>
<item name="actionBarTabStyle">#style/ActionBarTabStyle.Mystyle</item>
<item name="actionDropDownStyle">#style/DropDownNav.Mystyle</item>
<item name="actionBarStyle">#style/ActionBar.Solid.Mystyle</item>
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/ActionBar.Solid.Mystyle</item>
<item name="actionModeBackground">#drawable/cab_background_top_mystyle</item>
<item name="actionModeSplitBackground">#drawable/cab_background_bottom_mystyle</item>
<item name="actionModeCloseButtonStyle">#style/ActionButton.CloseMode.Mystyle</item>
</style>
<style name="ActionBar.Solid.Mystyle" parent="#style/Widget.Sherlock.Light.ActionBar">
<item name="android:background">#drawable/background_actionbar</item>
<item name="background">#drawable/background_actionbar</item>
</style>
//more styles
<style name="StyledIndicators" parent="#style/Theme.Mystyle">
//some items for ViewPagerIndicator
</style>
<resources>
background_actionbar.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:shape="rectangle" >
<gradient
android:angle="90"
android:endColor="#DD84A4E8"
android:startColor="#7784A4E8" />
</shape>
Do you know where the problem is?

I can not add a style using the selector

I have styles
<resources xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<style name="TextStyle" >
<item name="android:textSize">8sp</item>
<item name="android:textColor">#0A0A0A</item>
<item name="android:typeface">serif</item>
</style>
<style name="TextStylePressed" >
<item name="android:textSize">18sp</item>
<item name="android:textColor">#0A0A0A</item>
<item name="android:typeface">serif</item>
<item name="android:textStyle">bold</item>
<item name="android:background">#C2C2C2</item>
</style>
</resources>
and I use selector arrow.xml
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:drawable="#style/TextStylePressed" android:state_selected="true"/>
<item android:drawable="#style/TextStylePressed" android:state_pressed="true"/>
<item android:drawable="#style/TextStylePressed" android:state_focused="true"/>
<item android:drawable="#style/TextStyle" />
</selector>
The problem is that I can not understand - if it works?
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
style="#drawable/arrow" // <---- Framed here
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#drawable/arrow" // <---- then here
android:orientation="vertical" >
</LinearLayout>
Consequently, after all attempts nothing happens

AFAIK selectors can only be defined to select a drawable and not any other attribute. If you check the doc , it compiles to StatelistDrawable, So i believe it can only be used for drawables