Change Toolbar Menu Item color (non-hidden action)

Question

Say I have a menu (options_menu.xml) similar to the following:

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"       xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto" >     <item android:id="@+id/action_login"           android:title="Login"           app:showAsAction="always"/> </menu> 

which I inflate into the new Toolbar item

mToolbar.inflateMenu(R.menu.options_home); 

This results in something like

Is there a way to change this text color without using an image, changing the rest of the Toolbar text color, or by adding a custom view to the toolbar? Looking for an answer for minSdk 15 (appcompat).

Update:

My relevant style:

<style name="AppTheme" parent="AppTheme.Base">     <item name="actionMenuTextColor">@color/ww_red</item> </style>  <style name="AppTheme.Base" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">     <item name="colorPrimary">@color/red</item>     <item name="colorAccent">@color/theme_accent</item>      <item name="android:textColor">@color/text_dark</item>      <item name="android:colorEdgeEffect">@color/gray</item> </style> 

Answer 1

In your theme file you have to put this :

<style name="AppTheme.ActionBar" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">          ...     <item name="actionMenuTextColor">@color/text_color</item>          ... </style> 

and apply this theme to your Toolbar view like this :

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"    android:id="@+id/main_toolbar"    android:layout_width="match_parent"    android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"    android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"    android:layout_gravity="top"    app:popupTheme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light"    android:theme="@style/AppTheme.ActionBar"/> 

android:theme="@style/AppTheme.ActionBar" don't forget this line in your toolbar