Modify style of Android items in the ActionBar

Question

How can I modify the style of the items on the Action bar of an Android Application?

I tryed the following:

<item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/ActionBar.Light</item>

<style name="ActionBar.Light" parent="@style/ActionBar">
        <item name="android:background">@color/black</item>
        <item name="android:actionMenuTextColor">#FF00FF</item>
</style>

The background of the Action bar I was able to modify, but not the text Colors of the items in the Action bar. How can I do it?

EDIT:

I tried pretty much all the android:action attributes I found, but I couldn't manage to change anything other than the background. Only the first <item name="android:background">#FF0000</item> of the following code makes changes on my code. No matter which values I put on the Test style, it doesn't change anything. Why is it happening?

<item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/ActionBar.Light</item>

<style name="ActionBar.Light" parent="@style/ActionBar">
        <item name="android:background">#FF0000</item>
        <item name="android:actionMenuTextColor">@style/Test</item>
        <item name="android:actionButtonStyle">@style/Test</item>
        <item name="android:actionModeBackground">@style/Test</item>
        <item name="android:actionMenuTextAppearance">@style/Test</item>
    </style>

    <style name="Test">
        <item name="android:textColor">@color/white</item>
        <item name="android:background">#FF0000</item>
    </style>

Solution

If you want to change the color of the menu items in the action bar you have to set the actionMenuTextColor in your theme style.

<style name="PortfolioTheme" parent="android:style/Theme.Holo.Light">
   <item name="android:actionMenuTextColor">#24598a</item>
   <item name="actionMenuTextColor">#24598a</item>
</style>

You don't define the menu item colors in the actionMenuTextAppearance!

Comments

[Paulo Barros]

Didn't work here. This android:titleTextStyle makes no effect in my code at all, I had already tried it before though.

[Paulo Barros]

I guess this is only for the Title of the application, not the title of the itens.

[Paulo Barros]

Thank you for the link, really helpfull. I just updated my question.

[Dory]

Hello, I tried this solution. It changes the menu items color in action bar. But may sub menu items are not changing. What should i do to change the color or sub menu items.

[Tooroop]

Hi, you are probably talking about changing the overflow menu style. I am not really 100% sure about the solution but try checkign these links: groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/actionbarsherloc‌​k/… stackoverflow.com/questions/14859794/…

[dbm]

This is the sh*t that did it for me. It also works on the ActionBarCompat (the v7 support package for Android). Having a quick look in the resource files provided for the ActionBarCompat by the support package also confirms the actionMenuTextColor attribute.