Android SearchView: styling suggestions list

Question

I have problems to style the suggestions list from a ActionBar SearchView (support v7).

Which style attribute I have to style to change the background and text color?

Ralph

Answer 1

public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.search_menu, menu);

    MenuItem searchItem = menu.findItem(R.id.action_search);
    SearchView searchView = (SearchView) MenuItemCompat.getActionView(searchItem);

    // Theme the SearchView's AutoCompleteTextView drop down. For some reason this wasn't working in styles.xml
    SearchAutoComplete autoCompleteTextView = (SearchAutoComplete) searchView.findViewById(R.id.search_src_text);

    if (autoCompleteTextView != null) { 
        autoCompleteTextView.setDropDownBackgroundResource(R.drawable.abc_search_dropdown_light);
    }
}