title: Applying custom styles to Android SpinnerItems
body: <p>This question has been asked before, but carefully studying the answers on previous posts hasn't helped me decipher the problem.</p>
  
  <p>I'm trying to apply custom styles to the items in a spinner control in my Android app, using a custom theme. I can't get the spinner items to respect the custom styles.</p>
  
  <p>Here's what I have in <code>themes.xml</code>:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;resources&gt;
    &lt;style name="CustomTheme" parent="android:Theme"&gt;
      &lt;item name="android:spinnerItemStyle"&gt;@style/CustomSpinnerItem&lt;/item&gt;
      &lt;item name="android:windowTitleSize"&gt;25dp&lt;/item&gt; &lt;!-- This works --&gt;
    &lt;/style&gt;
  &lt;/resources&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And here's my <code>styles.xml</code>:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;resources&gt;  
    &lt;style name="CustomSpinnerItem" parent="android:Widget.TextView.SpinnerItem"&gt;
      &lt;item name="android:textAppearance"&gt;@style/CustomTextAppearanceSpinnerItem&lt;/item&gt;
      &lt;item name="android:padding"&gt;20dp&lt;/item&gt; &lt;!-- This works fine --&gt;
    &lt;/style&gt;
  
    &lt;style name="CustomTextAppearanceSpinnerItem" parent="android:TextAppearance.Widget.TextView.SpinnerItem"&gt;
      &lt;item name="android:textColor"&gt;#F00&lt;/item&gt; &lt;!-- This does NOT work --&gt;
    &lt;/style&gt;
  &lt;/resources&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Note the comments about what's working and what isn't. I'm pretty sure the problem is in the <code>CustomTextAppearanceSpinnerItem</code> section, but I'm at a loss as to what's wrong.</p>
  
  <p>Any suggestions?</p>