title: How can we add background Color to the options menu in android
body: <p>Options menu has a default color i.e White, I want to change this color to GREEN.
  Right now i have tried to add a drawable to my menu item to change its color, but its not working, here is the menu.xml code</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
  &lt;menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" 
  
      &gt;
  
      &lt;item
          android:icon="@drawable/character"
          android:id="@+id/icon12"
          android:title="test"
  
           /&gt;
      &lt;item
          android:id="@+id/text"
          android:title="Text"/&gt;
      &lt;item
          android:id="@+id/icon1"
          android:title="Icon and Text"
          android:icon="@drawable/item_selector"/&gt;
  
      &lt;item android:id="@+id/about"
        android:icon="@drawable/action"
        android:title="about"
         /&gt; 
  &lt;/menu&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It does not change the background of the menu item. Any Answers would be appreciated.</p>
  
  <p>I have tried many things, e.g hackandroid etc but nothing seemed to work properly.</p>