How to change toolbar menu item text color for pre Lollipop and Lollipop versions

Question

I am using Toolbar for the purpose of material design in my application. Everything working fine but except when it comes to change the menu item text color I am completely

Answer 1

Change this

<item name="android:actionMenuTextColor">@color/white</item>

to

<item name="actionMenuTextColor">@color/white</item>

And apply the theme to the toolbar:

android:theme="@style/ToolBarTheme"

You style your widgets and provide themes for your activity.