当菜单项膨胀时，我使用html标记来更改单个项目的文本颜色。希望对大家有所帮助。

public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_main, menu);
    menu.findItem(R.id.main_settings).setTitle(Html.fromHtml("<font color='#ff3824'>Settings</font>"));
    return true;
}

当菜单项膨胀时，我使用html标记来更改单个项目的文本颜色。希望对大家有所帮助。

public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_main, menu);
    menu.findItem(R.id.main_settings).setTitle(Html.fromHtml("<font color='#ff3824'>Settings</font>"));
    return true;
}

正如你在这个问题中看到的，你应该:

<item name="android:textColorPrimary">yourColor</item>

上面的代码更改API >= v21菜单操作项的文本颜色。

<item name="actionMenuTextColor">@android:color/holo_green_light</item>

以上是API < v21的代码

最简单的方法为单个工具栏定制菜单颜色，而不是为AppTheme

    <android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme.AppBarOverlay.MenuBlue">
        <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
            android:id="@+id/toolbar"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"/>
    </android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>

xml上常用的工具栏

<style name="AppTheme.AppBarOverlay" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar"/>

自定义工具栏样式

<style name="AppTheme.AppBarOverlay.MenuBlue">
    <item name="actionMenuTextColor">@color/blue</item>
</style>

Sephy的方法不管用。可以使用上述方法覆盖选项菜单项文本外观，但不能覆盖项或菜单。要做到这一点，基本上有3种方法:

如何更改选项菜单的背景颜色? 写你自己的视图来显示和覆盖onCreateOptionsMenu和onPrepareOptionsMenu来获得你想要的结果。我之所以笼统地说明这一点，是因为您通常可以在这些方法中做任何您想做的事情，但您可能不想调用super()。 从开源SDK复制代码，并自定义您的行为。Activity使用的默认菜单实现将不再适用。

参见第4441期:自定义选项菜单主题了解更多线索。

我的情况是在选项菜单中设置文本颜色(主应用程序菜单显示在菜单按钮按下)。

在API 16中测试，使用AppCompat -v7-27.0.2库，MainActivity的AppCompat活动和AndroidManifest.xml应用程序的AppCompat主题。

styles.xml:

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
  <item name="actionBarPopupTheme">@style/PopupTheme</item>
</style>

<style name="PopupTheme" parent="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light">
  <item name="android:textColorSecondary">#f00</item>
</style>

不知道textColorSecondary是否影响其他元素，但它控制菜单文本的颜色。

我搜索了一些关于这个主题的示例，但所有现成的代码片段都不起作用。

所以我想用appcompat-v7库的源代码(特别是.aar包的res文件夹)来研究它。

不过在我的例子中，我使用了带有爆炸性.aar依赖项的Eclipse。因此，我可以更改默认样式并检查结果。不知道如何爆炸库与Gradle或Android Studio直接使用。它值得进行另一项调查。

所以我的目的是找到res/values/values.xml文件中用于菜单文本的颜色(我几乎确定颜色在那里)。

I opened that file, then duplicated all colors, put them below the default ones to override them and assigned #f00 value to all of them. Start the app. Many elements had red background or text color. And the menu items too. That was what I needed. Removing my added colors by blocks of 5-10 lines I ended with the secondary_text_default_material_light color item. Searching that name in the files within the res folder (or better within res/colors) I found only one occurrence in the color/abc_secondary_text_material_light.xml file (I used Sublime Text for these operations so it's easier to find thing I need). Back to the values.xml 8 usages were found for the @color/abc_secondary_text_material_light. It was a Light theme so 4 left in 2 themes: Base.ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light and Platform.AppCompat.Light. The first theme was a child of the second one so there were only 2 attributes with that color resource: android:textColorSecondary and android:textColorTertiaryin the Base.ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light. Changing their values directly in the values.xml and running the app I found that the final correct attribute was android:textColorSecondary. Next I needed a theme or another attribute so I could change it in my app's style.xml (because my theme had as the parent the Theme.AppCompat.Light and not the ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light). I searched in the same file for the Base.ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light. It had a child ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light. Searching for the ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light I found its usage in the Base.Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar theme as the actionBarPopupTheme attribute value. My app's theme Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar was a child of the found Base.Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar so I could use that attribute in my styles.xml without problems. As it's seen in the example code above I created a child theme from the mentioned ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light and changed the android:textColorSecondary attribute.