title: ActionBar list navigation: different text color in header and pop up menu
body: <p>I have a navigation list in my action bar that has a dark background. The pop menu however, has a white background.</p>
  
  <p>So what I want to achieve is, that the item text color inside of the action bar is white whereas the items text color in the menu pop up are black.</p>
  
  <p>This are two examples what I got so far:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/5wV9C.png" alt="bad examples"></p>
  
  <p>This is how it should look like:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/fPasO.png" alt="planned"></p>
  
  <p>Does anyone know a solution? </p>
  
  <p>This is my code for the list navigation:</p>
  
  <pre><code>ArrayAdapter&lt;String&gt; adapter = new ArrayAdapter&lt;String&gt;(this,
          android.R.layout.simple_dropdown_item_1line, new String[] { "Item 1", "Item 2" });
  
  getSupportActionBar().setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_LIST);
  getSupportActionBar().setListNavigationCallbacks(adapter,
          new ActionBar.OnNavigationListener() {
              @Override
              public boolean onNavigationItemSelected(int itemPosition, long itemId) {
                  return true;
              }
          });
  
  getSupportActionBar().setSelectedNavigationItem(0)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>These is a collection of styles that I worked with.     </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;style name="CustomTheme" parent="@style/Theme.customized"&gt;
        &lt;item name="actionBarStyle"&gt;@style/Widget.Styled.ActionBar&lt;/item&gt;
        &lt;item name="android:actionBarStyle"&gt;@style/Widget.Styled.ActionBar&lt;/item&gt;
        &lt;item name="actionDropDownStyle"&gt;@style/CustomSherlockDropDownNav&lt;/item&gt;
        &lt;item name="android:actionDropDownStyle"&gt;@style/CustomSherlockDropDownNav&lt;/item&gt;
  
        &lt;!-- didn't work: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12395381/android-actionbar-navigation-spinner-text-color           
        &lt;item name="android:spinnerDropDownItemStyle"&gt;@style/custom.Widget.DropDownItem.Spinner&lt;/item&gt;
        &lt;item name="spinnerDropDownItemStyle"&gt;@style/custom.Widget.DropDownItem.Spinner&lt;/item&gt;
        --&gt;
  
        &lt;!-- didn't work: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11479186/styling-actionbar-dropdown-menu 
        &lt;item name="android:actionBarWidgetTheme"&gt;@style/custom.actionBarWidgetTheme&lt;/item&gt;
        &lt;item name="actionBarWidgetTheme"&gt;@style/custom.actionBarWidgetTheme&lt;/item&gt;
        --&gt;
  
        &lt;!-- didn't work: http://android-developers.blogspot.de/2011/04/customizing-action-bar.html                                                                        
        &lt;item name="android:dropDownListViewStyle"&gt;@style/CustomDropDownListView&lt;/item&gt;
        &lt;item name="dropDownListViewStyle"&gt;@style/CustomDropDownListView&lt;/item&gt;
        --&gt;
  
        ....  
  &lt;/style&gt;
  
  
  &lt;style name="custom.actionBarWidgetTheme" parent="@style/Theme.Sherlock.Light.DarkActionBar"&gt;
       &lt;item name="android:spinnerDropDownItemStyle"&gt;@style/custom.Widget.DropDownItem.Spinner&lt;/item&gt;
  &lt;/style&gt;
  
  &lt;style name="custom.Widget.DropDownItem.Spinner" parent="@style/Widget.Sherlock.DropDownItem.Spinner"&gt;
      &lt;item name="android:textAppearance"&gt;@style/custom.TextAppearance.Widget.DropDownItem&lt;/item&gt;
  &lt;/style&gt;
  
  &lt;style name="custom.TextAppearance.Widget.DropDownItem" parent="@style/TextAppearance.Sherlock.Widget.DropDownItem"&gt;
      &lt;item name="android:textColor"&gt;#00A000&lt;/item&gt;
  &lt;/style&gt;
  
  
  &lt;style name="CustomDropDownListView" parent="android:style/Widget.Holo.ListView.DropDown"&gt;
    &lt;item name="android:textColor"&gt;#00A000&lt;/item&gt;
    &lt;item name="android:textSize"&gt;8dip&lt;/item&gt;
  &lt;/style&gt;
  
  
  &lt;style name="CustomSherlockDropDownNav" parent="@style/Widget.Sherlock.Light.Spinner.DropDown.ActionBar"&gt;
        &lt;item name="android:popupBackground"&gt;@drawable/menu_dropdown_panel_customtab&lt;/item&gt;
        &lt;item name="android:background"&gt;@drawable/spinner_background_ab_customtab&lt;/item&gt;
  &lt;/style&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However nothing didn't work. </p>