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rohan32
rohan32

Reputation: 520

Android menu background black with Theme.AppCompat?

For some reason in my application, when using "Theme.AppCompat" as my style, it makes my Menus black text (which I set since I want black text) on a dark grey background, as shown here:

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I have tried manually setting the menu's background color using a few online resources but none seem to be working. Does anyone know what might be causing the issue? Below is my style.xml, and as you can see, the two bottom elements in the main app theme entry are me trying to change the background color using things I've found online.

<!-- Base application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat">
    <item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
    <item name="android:windowBackground">@color/white_primary</item>
    <item name="android:textColor">@color/text_primary</item>
    <item name="android:textSize">@dimen/text_size_medium</item>
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/black_primary</item>
    <item name="android:popupMenuStyle">@style/PopupMenuStyle</item>
    <item name="android:panelFullBackground">@drawable/menu_full_bg</item>
</style>

<style name="PopupMenuStyle" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">
    <item name="android:popupBackground">@android:color/white</item>
</style>

<drawable name="menu_full_bg">#FFFFFF</drawable>

Upvotes: 26

Views: 19741

Answers (7)

Ismail
Ismail

Reputation: 109

What I did was I change my popUpTheme to DayNight so use

    app:popupTheme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.DayNight">

Upvotes: 4

Bhaskara
Bhaskara

Reputation: 601

Refer this link

The accepted answer here worked for me. I am just repeating the same answer here again. Add the following to your Toolbar xml

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar 
     xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
     xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
     android:layout_width="fill_parent"
     android:layout_height="wrap_content"
     android:background="@color/toolbarbackground"
     android:elevation="4dp"
     app:popupTheme="@style/YOUR_THEME_HERE"
     android:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar">

In your styles.xml:

<style name="YOUR_THEME_HERE" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light">
 <item name="android:colorBackground">#000000</item>
 <item name="android:textColor">#ffffff</item>
</style>

The above style gives white font on a black background.

Credit to #Eugen Pechanec

Upvotes: 2

Alias
Alias

Reputation: 59

I tried to add this into Toolbar:

app:popupTheme="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light"

BUT at the Night mode the background will be white, and the text white too. (this will helpful in only Day mode, or your app does not follow Day/Night switch)

Another tried, I add this style for menu popup, as Pojaa said above:

<style name="PopupMenuStyle" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">
     <item name="android:background">@android:color/white</item>
</style>

BUT this create an effect: when you click the menu, it show the white background of popup menu first (the white background), and then show up the items, this very not good for user experience. Maybe Android change by time, the experience will different!

You SHOULD just try this for your wish:

app:popupTheme="@style/Theme.AppCompat.DayNight"

This is late answer, but hope it will help someone else!

Upvotes: 1

Andreas K. aus M.
Andreas K. aus M.

Reputation: 542

I discourage this line:

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

as on my device the menu popup animation behaved rather ugly. Instead it was sufficient to just use this:

<style name="PopupMenuStyle" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">
</style>

Upvotes: 1

Golu
Golu

Reputation: 66

You can just use appNS to define the popupTheme as shown below.

app:popupTheme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light"

Upvotes: 4

Apirak Lunla
Apirak Lunla

Reputation: 645

Not sure if this's help. It may be a simpler solution. Within AppCompat - themes_base.xml you will find the section below. 

<!-- Panel attributes -->
            <item name="panelMenuListWidth">@dimen/abc_panel_menu_list_width</item>
            <item name="panelMenuListTheme">@style/Theme.AppCompat.CompactMenu</item>
            <item name="panelBackground">@drawable/abc_menu_hardkey_panel_mtrl_mult</item>
            <item name="android:panelBackground">@android:color/transparent</item>
            <item name="listChoiceBackgroundIndicator">@drawable/abc_list_selector_holo_dark</item>

Create a theme within your app and apply the colour.

<style name="Theme.Base" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
        <item name="android:panelBackground">@android:color/black</item>
    </style>

Upvotes: 0

Pooja
Pooja

Reputation: 2467

You can change the background color of the popup menu as below.

  1. Create a style in your styles.xml

    <style name="PopupMenuStyle" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">
     <item name="android:background">@android:color/white</item>
</style>

  2. Set this theme as your toolbar popup theme in your toolbar.xml

     <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar     
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"    
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

        // Your code here
       app:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar"
       app:popupTheme="@style/PopupMenuStyle" />

Hope this helps.

Upvotes: 36

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