title: Action bar menu font color change using appcompat
body: <p>I have a contextual action mode, the text color of the action bar menu should be red in color. 
  I am able to change the text color using</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;style name="AppTheme" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light"&gt;
      &lt;!-- Setting values in the android namespace affects API levels 14+ --&gt;
      &lt;item name="android:actionBarStyle"&gt;@style/MyStyledActionBar&lt;/item&gt;
  &lt;/style&gt;
  
  &lt;style name="MyStyledActionBar" parent="@style/Widget.AppCompat.Light.ActionBar"&gt;
      &lt;!-- Setting values in the android namespace affects API levels 14+ --&gt;
      &lt;item name="android:background"&gt;@drawable/bg_action_bar&lt;/item&gt;
      &lt;item name="android:titleTextStyle"&gt;@style/MyActionBarTitleText&lt;/item&gt;
      &lt;item name="android:actionMenuTextAppearance"&gt;@style/MyActionBarMenuText&lt;/item&gt;
      &lt;item name="android:actionMenuTextColor"&gt;@style/MyActionBarMenuText&lt;/item&gt;
      &lt;item name="android:actionOverflowButtonStyle"&gt;@style/MyActionButtonOverFlow&lt;/item&gt;
  &lt;/style&gt;
  
  &lt;style name="MyActionBarTitleText" parent="@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Widget.ActionBar.Title"&gt;
      &lt;item name="android:textColor"&gt;@color/font_half_white&lt;/item&gt;
  &lt;/style&gt;
  
  &lt;style name="MyActionBarMenuText" parent="@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Widget.ActionBar.Menu"&gt;
      &lt;item name="android:textColor"&gt;@color/font_half_white&lt;/item&gt;
  &lt;/style&gt;
  
  &lt;style name="MyActionButtonOverFlow" parent="@style/Widget.AppCompat.Light.Base.ActionButton.Overflow"&gt;
      &lt;item name="android:src"&gt;@drawable/ic_action_search&lt;/item&gt;
  &lt;/style&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It works in android 2.3, 4.1. but when i run the same in android 4.4. It shows the default black color</p>
  
  <p>Can anyone please let me know, what is the issue.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance.</p>