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Change default popup menu submenu arrow

I'm using default PopupMenu. I've customized it in my XML style, and now it has a dark style. but I have a problem now: please look at this screenShot I've prepared:

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As you can see the arrow is kind of hard to see and I really wish to avoid using popup window now. Is there any way that I could change it to a white arrow?

Solution

  • It's been a long time, but in case anyone else runs into this problem, you can leverage a style to fix this.

    it looks like the color of the arrow is controlled by android:textColorSecondary, so if you are programmatically generating a popup menu, you could do something like this (in Kotlin):

    val contextThemeWrapper = ContextThemeWrapper(context, R.style.PopupMenuStyle)
val popupMenu = PopupMenu(contextThemeWrapper, view)
val menu = popupMenu.menu
menu.addSubMenu(groupId, itemId, order, groupTitle)
menu.add(groupId, itemId, order, title1)
menu.add(groupId, itemId, order, title2)
etc...

    and define your PopupMenuStyle like this in your styles.xml:

    <style name="PopupMenuStyle" parent="@style/<some.parent.style>">
    <!--this makes an the arrow for a menu's submenu white-->
    <item name="android:textColorSecondary">@android:color/white</item>
</style>