title: Change holo spinner text colour
body: <p>I have a spinner in a Holo theme dialog and am trying to change the text colour because it is very hard to read:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/JK3fp.png" alt="dialog spinner text colour"></p>
  
  <p>I have looked at android styles.xml, as well as many other answers, and believe that I am setting the custom style correctly; but it's just not getting picked up.</p>
  
  <p>This is an extract from the dialog layout file where the spinner lives:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;Spinner
          android:id="@+id/spn_Type"
          android:layout_width="wrap_content"
          android:layout_height="wrap_content"
          android:layout_weight="1"
          android:entries="@array/dose_type_options"
          style="@style/DialogSpinner" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And these are the relevant entries in styles.xml in the values-v14 folder:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;style name="DialogSpinner" parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.Spinner"&gt;
          &lt;item name="android:spinnerItemStyle"&gt;@style/MySpinnerItem&lt;/item&gt;
  &lt;/style&gt;
  
  &lt;style name="MySpinnerItem" parent="android:Widget.Holo.TextView.SpinnerItem"&gt;
      &lt;item name="android:textAppearance"&gt;@style/MyTextAppearanceSpinnerItem&lt;/item&gt;
  &lt;/style&gt;
  
  &lt;style name="MyTextAppearanceSpinnerItem" parent="android:TextAppearance.Holo.Widget.TextView.SpinnerItem"&gt;
      &lt;item name="android:textColor"&gt;#FFF&lt;/item&gt;
  &lt;/style&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The dialog itself is forced to the Holo dark theme by using:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;style name="FibroDialog" parent="@android:style/Theme.Holo.Dialog"&gt;
  
  &lt;/style&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Can anyone identify why the spinner text isn't white?</p>
  
  <p>I have looked at other solutions, which suggest changing the colour in code, but this app supports 2.3.* upwards, so for those non-holo versions black text is fine, hence trying to do it by styles.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>
  
  <p><strong>Updated using answer from Woda below</strong></p>
  
  <p>The text colour of the initial value of the spinner is now white, which goes a long way to highlighting that there is a spinner there for the user:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/I3cyu.png" alt="dialog spinner text colour 2"></p>
  
  <p>But the text colour of the selectable items is still black. I guess it's not a massive deal, at least the existence of the spinner has been affirmed by getting the initial text changed to white. But I would be interested to know why the items are still black, and how to change them to white.</p>