Styled theme actionBarCompat with AppCompat v7

Question

I have a styled theme in values/styles.xml like this, project compiled and targetting Android 21:

    <style name="Theme.Styled" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
    <item name="colorPrimary">#99ba64</item>
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">#558B2F</item>
    <item name="colorAccent">#76FF03</item>
    <item name="android:actionBarItemBackground">@drawable/selectable_background</item>
    <item name="android:actionBarTabStyle">@style/Widget.Styled.ActionBar.TabView</item>
    <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/Widget.Styled.ActionBar</item>
    <item name="android:actionDropDownStyle">@style/Widget.Styled.Spinner.DropDown.ActionBar</item>
    <item name="android:dropDownListViewStyle">@style/Widget.Styled.ListView.DropDown</item>
    <item name="android:popupMenuStyle">@style/Widget.Styled.PopupMenu</item>
</style>

action bar works with styled background color on all devices, but some colors such as for popupmenu or navspinner are missed. It seems as android:popupMenuStyle or android:actionDropDownStyle are ignored. Why? Thanks.

Answer 1

If you're targetting API 21, then you can't use Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar - it doesn't exist.

Read this Chris Banes blog post about AppCompat v21.