Is it possible to make the Android options menu background non-translucent?

Question

The options menu has a translucent background and I would like to make it solid and non-transparent. Is there a way?

Answer 1

Try this:

<style name="MyTheme" parent="android:Theme">
     <item name="android:panelFullBackground">{your color or drawable}</item>
</style>

Also, see:

• http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=4441
• How to change the background color of the options menu?
• Completely overriding menu panel: Android MenuItem Toggle Button

Answer 2

Try this for android 4.0:

<style name="MyTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme.DeviceDefault">       
        <item name="android:popupMenuStyle">@style/MyPopupMenu</item>
    </style>

    <style name="MyPopupMenu" parent="@android:style/Widget.DeviceDefault.ListPopupWindow">
        <item name="android:popupBackground">{your color or drawable}</item>
    </style>

Also, the following site generate Action Bar Style :

http://jgilfelt.github.com/android-actionbarstylegenerator/

Answer 3

set android:theme="myTheme", and define your own theme with whatever colours you want. Read up about Styles, and look at the android themes.xml.

Answer 4

If you don't want to style a whole theme and just change the options menu background then set the panelFullBackground property to a DRAWABLE RESOURCE of your liking. Setting it to a color directly doesn't work so either make one coloured - 9patch, if you want to save in size -image and set it to that or make a couple and make a selector drawable with an image for each state.

I put my definition in a style that i use for all the activities in my project using:

@drawable/optionsmenu_back

optionsmenu_back being a 9patch image with a solid colour...