How to set action bar menu items formatting using style.xml in android -

i totally new android.

i made own action bar code below :

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"     xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">     <item android:id="@+id/action_search"         android:icon="@drawable/search_icon"         android:title="@string/action_search"         app:showasaction="ifroom" />     <!-- settings, should in overflow -->     <item android:id="@+id/action_settings"         android:title="@string/action_settings123"         app:showasaction="never" /> </menu> 

i want change properties (like color, background) of item(s) under menu list(currently having single item 'settings')

here did in style.xml :

<resources>      <!-- base application theme. -->     <style name="apptheme" parent="base.theme.appcompat.light.darkactionbar">         <item name="android:edittextstyle">@style/app_edittextstyle</item>         <item name="android:actionmenutextappearance">@style/menuiconformatting</item>           <!-- customize theme here. -->     </style>      <style name="app_edittextstyle" parent="@android:style/widget.edittext">         <item name="android:textcolor">@android:color/holo_red_dark</item>         <item name="android:textcursordrawable">@null</item>     </style>     <style name="menuiconformatting" parent="android:textappearance.holo.widget.actionbar.title">         <item name="android:textcolor">@android:color/holo_green_dark</item>     </style> </resources> 

please let me know doing wrong here.

thanks in advance.

base.theme.appcompat.light.darkactionbarhave tried adding property android:actionbarstyle? put inside of apptheme

<item name="android:actionbarstyle">@style/myawesomeactionbarstyle</item> 

now style want

<style name="myawesomeactionbarstyle" parent="base.theme.appcompat.light.darkactionbar">             <item name="android:background">some_hex_color_code</item>             <item name="android:textcolor">some_hex_color_code</item> </style> 

i hope sets on right track :)