android - Change spinner style in toolbar

Question

I am trying to put a spinner in my Toolbar like the old ActionBar style navigation and my theme is this

<style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/color_primary</item>
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/color_primary_dark</item>
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/color_primary</item>
</style>

but my spinner is black while all other icons and overflow menus are white so it looks bad

I tried changing the style of the spinner using this

<style name="ToolbarSpinnerTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat">
    <item name="android:spinnerItemStyle">@style/TextAppearanceSpinnerItem</item>
</style>

<style name="TextAppearanceSpinnerItem">
    <item name="android:textColor">#FFFFFF</item>
</style>

this is how my Toolbar is styled

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
           android:id="@+id/toolbar"
           android:layout_width="match_parent"
           android:layout_height="wrap_content"
           android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
           android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
           app:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar"
           app:popupTheme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light">

           <Spinner
               android:layout_width="wrap_content"
               android:layout_height="wrap_content"
               android:id="@+id/modes"
               android:minWidth="150dp"
               android:gravity="bottom"
               style="@style/ToolbarSpinnerTheme"/>

       </android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>


final Spinner mode = (Spinner)findViewById(R.id.modes);

    SpinnerAdapter mSpinner = ArrayAdapter.createFromResource(this, R.array.action_bar_spinner, android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);
    mode.setAdapter(mSpinner);

but it always stays black. How can I change the spinner arrow and text to white while still keeping the same theme for the dropdown style as you would get with the Light theme?

Update 4.4 arrow fix:

The only way I got the arrow to turn white is to add the spinner programatically and not in xml so it looks something like this

final ArrayAdapter spinnerAdapter = ArrayAdapter.createFromResource(getSupportActionBar().getThemedContext(),
        R.array.main_navigation_list, R.layout.spinner_text);
spinnerAdapter.setDropDownViewResource(R.layout.spinner_dropdown_item);
mNavigationTags = getResources().getStringArray(R.array.main_navigation_list);


mNavigationSpinner = new Spinner(getSupportActionBar().getThemedContext());
mNavigationSpinner.setAdapter(spinnerAdapter);

mNavigationSpinner.setOnItemSelectedListener(this);
mToolbar.addView(mNavigationSpinner)

Answer 1

I do it like the following:

navigation_toolbar.xml

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar     xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:id="@+id/toolbar"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
app:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar"
app:popupTheme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light">
</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>

MainActivity.java

ArrayAdapter<CharSequence> adapter = ArrayAdapter.createFromResource(this,
                R.array.pass_type, R.layout.layout_drop_title);
 adapter.setDropDownViewResource(R.layout.layout_drop_list);

 Spinner mNavigationSpinner = new Spinner(getSupportActionBar().getThemedContext());
 mNavigationSpinner.setAdapter(adapter);
 getToolbar().addView(mNavigationSpinner);

You will find I used custom spinner item layout, layout_drop_title and layout_drop_list

layout_drop_title.xml

 <TextView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
 android:id="@android:id/text1"
    style="?attr/spinnerDropDownItemStyle"
    android:singleLine="true"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
    android:textColor="@color/white"
    android:ellipsize="marquee"/>

layout_drop_list.xml

<CheckedTextView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="@android:id/text1"
style="?android:attr/spinnerDropDownItemStyle"
android:singleLine="true"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:ellipsize="marquee"
android:background="@color/nliveo_blue_colorPrimary"
android:textColor="@color/white"/>