How to change background color popup menu android

Add popupMenu style to ur AppTheme:

<style name="AppTheme" parent="android:Theme.Light">    <item name="android:popupMenuStyle">@style/PopupMenu</item></style><style name="PopupMenu" parent="@android:style/Widget.PopupMenu">    <item name="android:popupBackground">@android:color/white</item></style>

manifest.xml:

 <application    android:allowBackup="true"    android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"    android:label="@string/app_name"    android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >.............</application>

Please Add Following lines in style xml file, I hope this will help for material design application.Style.xml

<!-- Base application theme. --><style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">    <!-- Customize your theme here. -->    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>    <!-- To change the popup menu and app text color  -->    <item name="android:textColor">@color/colorPrimary</item>    <!-- To change the background of options menu-->    <item name="android:itemBackground">@color/skyBlue</item></style>

For more details refer this link http://www.viralandroid.com/2016/01/how-to-change-background-and-text-color-of-android-actionbar-option-menu.html

If your are using AppCompact-v7 then you can style PopupMenu as below:

 <style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">    <item name="popupMenuStyle">@style/popupMenuStyle</item></style><style name="popupMenuStyle" parent="Widget.AppCompat.PopupMenu">    <item name="android:popupBackground">@android:color/white</item></style>

NOTE: PopMenu always works with Activity Context, not with Application context.