How to change Option Menu Item layout?

Question

How to customize the Option Menu item layout from xml or programmatically. I found many question but no good answer yet.

What do you want, do you want to inflate a layout on option menu click ? — Ajeet, Apr 03 '15 at 19:01
The default appearance of the option menu does not fit with theme(colors) of my application. — Ussef Ben Amor, Apr 03 '15 at 19:06

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 01 '15 at 15:34

<item
    android:id="@+id/itemId"
    android:title="Item title"
    app:showAsAction="always"
    app:actionLayout="@layout/menu_item_layout" />

Note that this layout will be shown only in the ActionBar. If the item is in the overflow menu only title will be shown.

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