To do so, you need to override some styles of the Android default styles :įirst, look at the definition of the themes in Android : the appearance of the text in the menu is in in the definition of the styles : (Yes, it changed its color according to this property!) android:textColor is the color for all other text including the menu. android:textColorSecondary is the text color for subtitle and more options (3 dot) button. to the results I got, android:textColorPrimary is the text color displaying the name of your activity, which is the primary text of the toolbar. If you are using the new Toolbar, with the theme, you can style it in the following way.
