Action Bar Menu Item Text Color

Action Bar menu item text color

Try something like this :

<style name="ThemeName" parent="@style/Theme.Sherlock.Light">
    <item name="actionMenuTextColor">@color/white</item>
    <item name="android:actionMenuTextColor">@color/white</item>
</style>

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

<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

action item in menu set text color

You both have the correct idea I might suggest that you take a look at this ThemeOverlay link it explains the ThemeOverlay vrs Theme. Worth your time James_Duh

ThemeOverlay

How would anyone know what TEXT textColorPrimary was making reference to.
I guess it is all in the NAME

<item name="android:textColorPrimary">@color/color_White</item>

Change TextColor of one specific MenuItem in ActionBar from Fragment

First I had to change onPrepareOptionsMenu the way Geethakrishna Juluri suggested,
but I also had to add a line, to put the menuItems title into the TextView.

@Override
    public boolean onPrepareOptionsMenu(final Menu aMenu) {
    final MenuItem menuItem = this.menu.findItem(R.id.user_id_label);                               
    final TextView textView = (TextView) menuItem.getActionView();
    textView.setTextColor(SOME_COLOR);
    textView.setText(menuItem.getTitle);
    return super.onPrepareOptionsMenu(aMenu);
}

Android Toolbar menu text color

Having a material toolbar you can play with styling modifying text title and menu texts as follows:

<com.google.android.material.appbar.MaterialToolbar
    android:id="@+id/toolbar"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="?actionBarSize"
    android:background="@android:color/white"
    android:elevation="6dp"
    android:theme="@style/App.ToolbarStyle"
    app:titleTextAppearance="@style/App.ToolbarTitleTex"
    app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
    app:menu="@menu/create_item_menu"
    app:titleTextColor="@android:color/black" />

Where this style lets you change the color of the icon of the left:

<style name="App.ToolbarStyle" parent="ThemeOverlay.MaterialComponents.Toolbar.Primary">
    <item name="colorOnPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
</style>

Also you can change the title text appearance with another style:

<style name="App.ToolbarTitleTex" parent="ThemeOverlay.MaterialComponents.Toolbar.Primary">
    <item name="android:textSize">18sp</item>
    <item name="fontFamily">@font/roboto_bold</item>
</style>

And finally to change the menu item style you need to add this item property to the main style/theme of the app (the one you set in the AndroidManifest file:

<item name="actionMenuTextAppearance">@style/App.ToolbarMenuItem</item>

With:

<style name="App.ToolbarMenuItem" parent="ThemeOverlay.MaterialComponents.Toolbar.Primary">
    <item name="android:textSize">14sp</item>
    <item name="fontFamily">@font/roboto_bold</item>
    <item name="textAllCaps">true</item>
    <item name="android:textStyle">bold</item>
</style>

The final result would be something like this:

Change MenuItem text color programmatically

Bit late to the party with this one, but I spent a while working on this and found a solution, which may be of use to anyone else trying to do the same thing. Some credit goes to Harish Sridharan for steering me in the right direction.

You can use findViewById(R.id.MY_MENU_ITEM_ID) to locate the menu item (provided that the menu had been created and prepared), and cast it to a TextView instance as suggested by Harish, which can then be styled as required.

public class MyAwesomeActivity extends Activity {

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    getWindow().requestFeature(Window.FEATURE_ACTION_BAR);
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    // Force invalidatation of the menu to cause onPrepareOptionMenu to be called
    invalidateOptionsMenu();
}

private void styleMenuButton() {
    // Find the menu item you want to style
    View view = findViewById(R.id.YOUR_MENU_ITEM_ID_HERE);

    // Cast to a TextView instance if the menu item was found
    if (view != null && view instanceof TextView) {
        ((TextView) view).setTextColor( Color.BLUE ); // Make text colour blue
        ((TextView) view).setTextSize(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_SP, 24); // Increase font size
    }
}

@Override
public boolean onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    boolean result = super.onPrepareOptionsMenu(menu);
    styleMenuButton();
    return result;
}

}

The trick here is to force the menu to be invalidated in the activity's onCreate event (thereby causing the onPrepareMenuOptions to be called sooner than it would normally). Inside this method, we can locate the menu item and style as required.

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