Changing the background color of searchview autocomplete dropdown

Question

I have a searchview with a content provider for custom suggestions, which are displayed in a dropdown. However, the dropdown background is dark while the text is black so it\'s

Answer 1

Here's one possibility.

Define a query suggestion row layout, e.g. R.layout.li_query_suggestion, that looks like this:

Notice that the background color is white and the text color is black. You can, of course, change these values.

Then, in your cursor adapter, specify the layout you created as the row layout. E.g.:

CursorAdapter suggestionAdapter = new SimpleCursorAdapter(
    getActivity(), 
    R.layout.li_query_suggestion, 
    null, 
    new String[]{"name"}, 
    new int[]{android.R.id.text1}, 
    0);

This will give you something that looks like the following:

Just fyi, my current theme looks like this: