how to change actionbar's menu item text color in material design

Question

I'm trying to update my notepad app to use Material Design, even on older devices.

What i did so far:

1. add library appcompat_v7 to my project, to support Material Design on older devices
2. modify theme in AndroidManifest, adding android:theme="@style/Theme.NoteItTheme" to <application ... ></application> attributes

3. creating the theme in /res/values/themes.xml:

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
   <resources xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
      <style name="Theme.NoteItTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">
       <!-- Here we setting appcompat’s actionBarStyle -->
       <!-- <item name="actionBarStyle">@style/MyActionBarStyle</item> --> 
   
       <!-- ...and here we setting appcompat’s color theming attrs -->
       <item name="colorPrimary">@color/primary</item>
       <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/primary_dark</item>
       <item name="android:textColorPrimary">@color/text</item>
       <item name="colorAccent">@color/ui</item>
   
       <!-- The rest of your attributes -->
   </style>
   

The problem:

As you can better see here:

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?

Answer 1

<item name="android:textColorPrimary">yourColor</item>

Above code changes the text color of the menu action items for API >= v21.

<item name="actionMenuTextColor">@android:color/holo_green_light</item>

Above is the code for API < v21

Some tutorials:

Changing toolbar's text color and overflow icon color

Appcompat v21 Pre-Lollipop devices

Answer 2

Below worked for me

<item name="actionMenuTextColor">yourColor</item>
<item name="android:actionMenuTextColor">yourColor</item>