How to change the background color of Action Bar's Option Menu in Android 4.2?

Question

I\'d like to change the background color of the option (overflow) menu in Android 4.2. I have tried all the methods but it is still showing the default color set by the them

Answer 1

To alter the color of the app bar only, you just have to change the colorPrimary value inside the colors.xml file and the colorPrimaryDark if you want to change the battery bar color as well:

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