Styling pop up menu with actionbarcompat

Question

I've PopUpMenu with support library v7 in my application which works as expected. But styling PopUpMenu is not working with styles of actionbarcompat.

styles.xml in values as follows :

<style name="Theme.Tellus" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light">
    <item name="popupMenuStyle">@style/PopupMenu.Tellus</item>
    <item name="dropDownListViewStyle">@style/DropDownListView.Tellus</item>
</style>


<style name="PopupMenu.Tellus" parent="@style/Widget.AppCompat.Light.PopupMenu">
    <item name="android:listSelector">@drawable/selectable_background_tellus</item>
    <item name="android:popupBackground">@drawable/menu_dropdown_panel_tellus</item>
    <item name="android:textSize">16sp</item>
    <item name="android:textColor">@android:color/white</item>
</style>

<style name="DropDownListView.Tellus" parent="@style/Widget.AppCompat.Light.ListView.DropDown">
    <item name="android:listSelector">@drawable/selectable_background_tellus</item>
    <item name="android:background">@color/background_actionbar</item>
    <item name="android:textColor">#FFFFFF</item>
    <item name="android:divider">@android:color/white</item>
    <item name="android:dividerHeight">1dp</item>
</style>

Here is output what I'm getting after applying theme.

It does display background of PopUpMenu in blue color which is applied from dropDownListViewStyle. How come PopUpMenu using dropDownListViewStyle? If it's using then it should use all attributes of dropDownListViewStyle

I want to change MenuItem textColor to white which fits to my theme. How can one apply style to MenuItem textColor?

Any enlightenment will be welcomes

Answer 1

try like this -

    <style name="Theme.Tellus" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light">
    <item name="popupMenuStyle">@style/PopupMenu.Tellus</item>
    <item name="dropDownListViewStyle">@style/DropDownListView.Tellus</item>
     <item name="android:textColor">#FF0000</item>
</style>