/*

* IconMenuItemView is the class that creates and controls the options menu

* which is derived from basic View class. So We can use a LayoutInflater

* object to create a view and apply the background.

*/

protected void optionsMenuSetMenuBackground(){

getLayoutInflater().setFactory( new Factory() {

public View onCreateView ( String name, Context context, AttributeSet attrs ) {

if ( name.equalsIgnoreCase( "com.android.internal.view.menu.IconMenuItemView" ) ) {

try { // Ask our inflater to create the view

// XmlPullParser parser = getResources().getXml(R.layout.custom_menu);

// AttributeSet attributes = Xml.asAttributeSet(parser);

LayoutInflater f = getLayoutInflater();

final View view = f.createView( name, null, attrs );

/*

* The background gets refreshed each time a new item is added the options menu.

* So each time Android applies the default background we need to set our own

* background. This is done using a thread giving the background change as runnable

* object

*/

new Handler().post( new Runnable() {

public void run () {

view.setBackgroundColor(Color.argb(242, 0, 20, 60)); <= backgroud color, drawable, resource 등

}

} );

return view;

}

catch ( InflateException e ) {}

catch ( ClassNotFoundException e ) {}

}

return null;

}

});

}

@Override

public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {

super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);

optionsMenuSetMenuBackground();

menu.add(0, MENU_INTERNAL, Menu.NONE, R.string.menu_photo_internal);

menu.add(0, MENU_SDCARD, Menu.NONE, R.string.menu_photo_sdcard);

return true;

}