title: how to change actionbar's menu item text color in material design
body: <p>I'm trying to update my notepad app to use Material Design, even on older devices.</p>
  
  <p>What i did so far:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>add library appcompat_v7 to my project, to support Material Design on older devices</li>
  <li>modify theme in AndroidManifest, adding <code>android:theme="@style/Theme.NoteItTheme"</code> to <code>&lt;application ... &gt;&lt;/application&gt;</code> attributes</li>
  <li><p>creating the theme in /res/values/themes.xml:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
  &lt;resources xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"&gt;
     &lt;style name="Theme.NoteItTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light"&gt;
      &lt;!-- Here we setting appcompat’s actionBarStyle --&gt;
      &lt;!-- &lt;item name="actionBarStyle"&gt;@style/MyActionBarStyle&lt;/item&gt; --&gt; 
  
      &lt;!-- ...and here we setting appcompat’s color theming attrs --&gt;
      &lt;item name="colorPrimary"&gt;@color/primary&lt;/item&gt;
      &lt;item name="colorPrimaryDark"&gt;@color/primary_dark&lt;/item&gt;
      &lt;item name="android:textColorPrimary"&gt;@color/text&lt;/item&gt;
      &lt;item name="colorAccent"&gt;@color/ui&lt;/item&gt;
  
      &lt;!-- The rest of your attributes --&gt;
  &lt;/style&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p></p></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p><strong>The problem:</strong></p>
  
  <p>As you can better see here:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/suM8U.jpg" alt="the problem"></p>
  
  <p>when i expand the actionbar's menu, text color and background color are very similar.
  I hadn't this problem before, how do i change just the items text color?</p>