Change background popupMenu in Android

Question

I tried to change background of popupmenu, but my implementation does not work.

This is my code:

<style name="MyHoloLight" parent="android:Theme.Holo.Light">
    <item name="android:popupMenuStyle">@style/popupMenuStyle</item>
</style>
<style name="popupMenuStyle" parent="@android:style/Widget.PopupMenu">
    <item name="android:popupBackground">@color/bgPopumMenu</item>
</style>

Apply in AndroidManifest.xml

<application
        android:hardwareAccelerated="true"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
        android:theme="@style/MyHoloLight">

score 31 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 13 '16 at 09:29

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the following styles working perfectly for me.

<style name="popupMenuStyle" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
    <item name="android:textColor">@color/color_white</item>
    <item name="android:itemBackground">@color/color_red</item>
</style>

here, parent should be the AppTheme parent

and in your code use these lines.

Context wrapper = new ContextThemeWrapper(context, R.style.popupMenuStyle);
PopupMenu popup = new PopupMenu(wrapper, v);

i hope it will work.

answered Oct 13 '16 at 09:29

Raju

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This is probably the only answer which works without any hassle. Kudos! – Suhayl SH Nov 24 '16 at 08:08
I spend a lot of days trying to get menu color working. This solution is the only one perfectly working. I'm using AppCompact and MenuPopupHelper. Thanks to @Raju ! – Lisitso Dec 07 '16 at 18:30

Piyush · Answer 2 · 2014-03-11T09:16:13.490

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If bgPopumMenu is your image then use this.

<style name="popupMenuStyle" parent="@android:style/Widget.PopupMenu">
<item name="android:popupBackground">@drawable/bgPopumMenu</item>
</style>

You need to apply your style to your AppTheme. So try this.

<style name="AppTheme" parent="android:Theme.Holo.Light">
<item name="android:popupMenuStyle">@style/popupMenuStyle</item>
</style>
<style name="popupMenuStyle" parent="@android:style/Widget.PopupMenu">
<item name="android:popupBackground">@color/bgPopumMenu</item>
</style>

edited Mar 11 '14 at 09:16

answered Mar 11 '14 at 08:58

Piyush

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Is bgPopupMenu is your image or color name?? – Piyush Mar 11 '14 at 09:11
bgPopupMenu - this color. – user1854307 Mar 11 '14 at 09:13
have you created color xml file for it? – Piyush Mar 11 '14 at 09:13
Just check my answer now. – Piyush Mar 11 '14 at 09:16
color created in xml file. – user1854307 Mar 11 '14 at 09:24
I tried **bgPopumMenu** use drawable, but this not helped. – user1854307 Mar 11 '14 at 11:44
But have you checked my full answer now. – Piyush Mar 11 '14 at 11:45
@PiyushGupta it never worked for me. I'm still looking for an appropriate answer. – Anshul Tyagi Aug 13 '15 at 05:22
@Piyush we should talk in a professional manner with each other at this platform, and this behaviour is expected from everyone, look at the comment of some looser above. – Sandeep Londhe Nov 09 '16 at 08:16
@AndroidHacker I know but you can talk with him in your personal chat room and you can do whatever you want to tell him – Piyush Nov 09 '16 at 08:19

score 5 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 25 '17 at 11:50

I made some changes of @Raju`s code and the following styles working for me,

Context wrapper = new ContextThemeWrapper(context,R.style.popupMenuStyle);
PopupMenu popup = new PopupMenu(wrapper, YourView);

and this is my style,

<style name="popupMenuStyle" parent="android:Theme.Holo.Light.DarkActionBar">
    <item name="android:popupMenuStyle">@style/MyApp.PopupMenu</item>
    <item name="android:textColor">@color/White</item>
</style>

<style name="MyApp.PopupMenu" parent="android:Widget.Holo.Light.ListPopupWindow">
<item name="android:popupBackground">@color/color_semi_transparent</item>       
</style>

score 1 · Answer 4 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 08:01

If you are using custom theme :

In Manifest : @style/MyMaterialTheme is my customized theme :

  <application
        android:allowBackup="true"
        android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:supportsRtl="true"
        android:theme="@style/MyMaterialTheme">

Use this code : R.style.popupMenuStyle for popup menu in java class :

Context wrapper = new ContextThemeWrapper(getContext(), R.style.popupMenuStyle);
PopupMenu popup = new PopupMenu(wrapper, v);

//Inflating the Popup using xml file
popup.getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.popup_menu, popup.getMenu());

MenuPopupHelper menuHelper = new MenuPopupHelper(wrapper, (MenuBuilder) popup.getMenu(), v);
menuHelper.setForceShowIcon(true);
menuHelper.setGravity(Gravity.RIGHT);

this is custom style of popup- menu for your own background drawable

<style name="popupMenuStyle" parent="@android:style/Widget.PopupMenu">
    <item name="android:popupBackground">@drawable/dropdown_bg</item>
</style>

then change in your own theme "popupMenuStyle"

<style name="MyMaterialTheme" parent="MyMaterialTheme.Base">

    </style>

    <style name="MyMaterialTheme.Base" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
        <item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
        <item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
        <item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
        <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
        <item name="colorAccent">@color/colorPrimary</item>

        <item name="popupMenuStyle">@style/popupMenuStyle</item>
        <item name="android:popupMenuStyle">@style/popupMenuStyle</item>
    </style>

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 19 '17 at 17:30

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I SOLVED it,

PopupMenu popup = new PopupMenu(context, view);

In above code I used context of type Activity not of Context type.

Chill !

answered Aug 19 '17 at 17:30

Ali Akram

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score 0 · Answer 6 · edited Mar 11 '14 at 09:06

what about this :

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu)
{
    MenuInflater inflater=getMenuInflater();
    inflater.inflate(R.menu.menu,menu);
    setMenuBackground(); 
    return true;    
}

and write this in the setMenuBackground() method

protected void setMenuBackground(){                              
        getLayoutInflater().setFactory( new Factory() {  
            public View onCreateView(String name, Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
                if ( name.equalsIgnoreCase( "com.android.internal.view.menu.IconMenuItemView" ) ) {
                    try { // Ask our inflater to create the view  
                        LayoutInflater f = getLayoutInflater();  
                        final View view = f.createView( name, null, attrs );  
                        /* The background gets refreshed each time a new item is added the options menu.  
                        * So each time Android applies the default background we need to set our own  
                        * background. This is done using a thread giving the background change as runnable 
                        * object */
                        new Handler().post( new Runnable() {  
                            public void run () {  
                                // sets the background here
                                view.setBackgroundResource( R.drawable.bgPopumMenu);
                                // sets the text color              
                                ((TextView) view).setTextColor(Color.BLACK);
                                // sets the text size              
                                ((TextView) view).setTextSize(18);
                }
                        } );  
                    return view;
                }
            catch ( InflateException e ) {}
            catch ( ClassNotFoundException e ) {}  
        } 
        return null;
    }}); 
}

Error will occur: *A factory has already been set on this LayoutInflater* — Raptor, Apr 13 '17 at 07:58
because of a small change on the support library, see this link for more details: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13415284/java-lang-illegalstateexception-a-factory-has-already-been-set-on-this-layoutin — Lucian Novac, Apr 24 '17 at 11:00

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Mar 11 '14 at 09:27

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You cannot give android:popupBackground as just a color. You should use or create a drawable.

You can use this link http://jgilfelt.github.io/android-actionbarstylegenerator/ to generate your desired color. And set it to that drawable.

answered Mar 11 '14 at 09:27

tasomaniac

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score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Jan 22 '15 at 19:16

Try to define android:actionBarWidgetTheme in your theme:

<style name="MyHoloLight" parent="android:Theme.Holo.Light">
    <item name="android:popupMenuStyle">@style/popupMenuStyle</item>
    <item name="android:actionBarWidgetTheme">@style/Theme.Example.Widget</item>
</style>
<style name="popupMenuStyle" parent="@android:style/Widget.PopupMenu">
    <item name="android:popupBackground">@color/bgPopumMenu</item>
</style>
<style name="Theme.Example.Widget" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat">
    <item name="popupMenuStyle">@style/popupMenuStyle</item>
    <item name="dropDownListViewStyle">@style/DropDownListView.Example</item>
</style>
<style name="DropDownListView.Example" parent="@style/Widget.AppCompat.ListView.DropDown">
    <item name="android:listSelector">@color/bgPopumMenu_whenSelected</item>
</style>

score 0 · Answer 9 · answered May 27 '15 at 13:20

If bgPopumMenu is your drawable then use this

    <item name="android:panelBackground">@drawable/bgPopumMenu</item>

You just put that directly into your AppTheme like so

<style name="AppTheme" parent="android:Theme.Holo.Light">
    <item name="android:panelBackground">@drawable/bgPopumMenu</item>
</style>

score 0 · Answer 10 · answered Dec 28 '17 at 10:34

You can easily create a style for popup menu and apply that style to a theme and you can assign the theme to the Activity/Parent Activity*** in the android manifest like this

<style name="MyThemePopup" parent="@style/AppTheme.NoActionBar">
    <item name="android:popupMenuStyle">@style/PopupMenu</item>
</style>

Create @style/PopupMenu like this

<style name="PopupMenu" parent="@android:style/Widget.PopupMenu">
    <item name="android:popupBackground">#000000</item>
</style>

Assign the MyThemePopup theme to your Activity/Parent Activity*** in AndroidManifest as

<activity
            android:name=".Activity"
            android:label="@string/title_activity"
            android:screenOrientation="portrait"
            android:theme="@style/MyThemePopup"/>

***When you using the fragment apply the theme for the parent activity defined in AndroidManifest

score 0 · Answer 11 · answered Apr 22 '19 at 06:00

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just add below line into Style.xml and its working :

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
    <!-- To change action bar menuItem BG -->
            <item name="android:itemBackground">@color/white</item>
 </style>

answered Apr 22 '19 at 06:00

axita.savani

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This will change only an item's background not the whole menus background, so after doing this there'll be still some different colour margins left on top and bottom. – Kashish Sharma Apr 18 '20 at 06:31
You have to remove margin and it is working on popup-menu for all the item's background color will change.. also your app must use parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar" this actionbar.. – axita.savani Apr 18 '20 at 07:48

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