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;
}});
}