Change background color of android menu [duplicate]

Answer 1

When ur are inflating the menu call this setMenuBackground() method

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu)
{
    MenuInflater inflater=getMenuInflater();
    inflater.inflate(R.menu.menu,menu);
    setMenuBackground(); 
    return true;    
}

and write this in the setMenuBackground() method

    protected void setMenuBackground(){                     
        // Log.d(TAG, "Enterting setMenuBackGround");  
        getLayoutInflater().setFactory( new Factory() {  
            public View onCreateView(String name, Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
                if ( name.equalsIgnoreCase( "com.android.internal.view.menu.IconMenuItemView" ) ) {
                    try { // Ask our inflater to create the view  
                        LayoutInflater f = getLayoutInflater();  
                        final View view = f.createView( name, null, attrs );  
                        /* The background gets refreshed each time a new item is added the options menu.  
                        * So each time Android applies the default background we need to set our own  
                        * background. This is done using a thread giving the background change as runnable 
                        * object */
                        new Handler().post( new Runnable() {  
                            public void run () {  
                                // sets the background color   
                                view.setBackgroundResource( R.color.androidcolor);
                                // sets the text color              
                                ((TextView) view).setTextColor(Color.BLACK);
                                // sets the text size              
                                ((TextView) view).setTextSize(18);
                }
                        } );  
                    return view;
                }
            catch ( InflateException e ) {}
            catch ( ClassNotFoundException e ) {}  
        } 
        return null;
    }}); 
}

Answer 2

This is clearly a problem that a lot of programmers have and to which Google has yet to provide a satisfactory, supported solution.

The setMenuBackground() hack which Abhay Kumar and Nik Reiman posted is a good start but it either crashes or does not work on Android 2.3.

Please see my answer (Louis Semprini) in this stackoverflow question for a better commented and more refined hack that works on 2.1, 2.2, and 2.3 (and that should do no harm on 3.X, though we can never guarantee this):

How to change the background color of the options menu?

Also, here are many other resources you may find helpful for this question:

Change background color of android menu

Android: customize application's menu (e.g background color)

http://www.macadamian.com/blog/post/android_-_theming_the_unthemable/

Android MenuItem Toggle Button

Is it possible to make the Android options menu background non-translucent?

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/android/AndroidMenusMyWay.aspx

Setting the menu background to be opaque

Answer 3

Use the setMenuBackground in onCreate.