Android LayoutInflater.Factory to overwrite menu item style

gistfile1.java

package org.santamonica.module;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.Reader;
import java.lang.reflect.Method;

import org.santamonica.R;
import org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParser;
import org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserException;

import android.content.Context;
import android.content.res.Resources;
import android.graphics.Typeface;
import android.graphics.PorterDuff.Mode;
import android.graphics.drawable.Drawable;
import android.os.Handler;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.view.InflateException;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.view.LayoutInflater.Factory;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup.LayoutParams;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class ThemedMenuLayoutInflaterFactory implements Factory
{
    private static class FakeXmlPullParser implements XmlPullParser{
        
        private View mView;
        private String mName;
        private LayoutInflater mInflater;
        private AttributeSet mAttrs;
        
        public FakeXmlPullParser(String name, AttributeSet attrs, LayoutInflater inf){
            mName = name;
            mAttrs = attrs;
            mInflater = inf;
        }
        
        public View getView()
        {
            return mView;
        }
        
        public int next() throws XmlPullParserException, IOException {
            try {
                mView = mInflater.createView( mName, null, mAttrs );
            } catch (Exception e) {
            }
            throw new XmlPullParserException("exit");
        }

        public void defineEntityReplacementText(String entityName,
                String replacementText) throws XmlPullParserException {
        }

        public int getAttributeCount() {
            return 0;
        }

        public String getAttributeName(int index) {
            return null;
        }

        public String getAttributeNamespace(int index) {
            return null;
        }

        public String getAttributePrefix(int index) {
            return null;
        }

        public String getAttributeType(int index) {
            return null;
        }

        public String getAttributeValue(int index) {
            return null;
        }

        public String getAttributeValue(String namespace, String name) {
            return null;
        }

        public int getColumnNumber() {
            return 0;
        }

        public int getDepth() {
            return 0;
        }

        public int getEventType() throws XmlPullParserException {
            return 0;
        }

        public boolean getFeature(String name) {
            return false;
        }

        public String getInputEncoding() {
            return null;
        }

        public int getLineNumber() {
            return 0;
        }

        public String getName() {
            return null;
        }

        public String getNamespace() {
            return null;
        }

        public String getNamespace(String prefix) {
            return null;
        }

        public int getNamespaceCount(int depth) throws XmlPullParserException {
            return 0;
        }

        public String getNamespacePrefix(int pos) throws XmlPullParserException {
            return null;
        }

        public String getNamespaceUri(int pos) throws XmlPullParserException {
            return null;
        }

        public String getPositionDescription() {
            return null;
        }

        public String getPrefix() {
            return null;
        }

        public Object getProperty(String name) {
            return null;
        }

        public String getText() {
            return null;
        }

        public char[] getTextCharacters(int[] holderForStartAndLength) {
            return null;
        }

        public boolean isAttributeDefault(int index) {
            return false;
        }

        public boolean isEmptyElementTag() throws XmlPullParserException {
            return false;
        }

        public boolean isWhitespace() throws XmlPullParserException {
            return false;
        }

        public int nextTag() throws XmlPullParserException, IOException {
            return 0;
        }

        public String nextText() throws XmlPullParserException, IOException {
            return null;
        }

        public int nextToken() throws XmlPullParserException, IOException {
            return 0;
        }

        public void require(int type, String namespace, String name)
                throws XmlPullParserException, IOException {
        }

        public void setFeature(String name, boolean state)
                throws XmlPullParserException {
        }

        public void setInput(Reader in) throws XmlPullParserException {
        }

        public void setInput(InputStream inputStream, String inputEncoding)
                throws XmlPullParserException {
        }

        public void setProperty(String name, Object value)
                throws XmlPullParserException {
        }
    }
    
    private View inflateView(String name, AttributeSet attrs, LayoutInflater inflater) throws ClassNotFoundException {
        try {
            return inflater.createView( name, null, attrs );
         } catch (InflateException e) {
             return hackAndroid23(name, attrs, inflater);
         }
    }
    
    private View hackAndroid23(String name, AttributeSet attrs, LayoutInflater inflater){
        FakeXmlPullParser parser = new FakeXmlPullParser(name, attrs, inflater);
        try {
            inflater.inflate(parser, null);

        } catch (Exception e1) {
            // "exit" ignored
        }
        return parser.getView();
    }

    public View onCreateView(String name, final Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        String className = "com.android.internal.view.menu.IconMenuItemView" ;
        if (!name.equalsIgnoreCase(className) ) {
            return null;
        }

        try { 
            LayoutInflater inflater = LayoutInflater.from(context);
            final View view = inflateView(name, attrs, inflater);
            new Handler().post( new Runnable() {
                public void run () {
                    fixMenuItemView(view, context);
                }
            } );
            return view;
        }catch ( Exception e ) {
        }
        return null;
    }
    
    protected Drawable getMenuItemIcon(View view){
        try {
            Class itemClass = Class.forName("com.android.internal.view.menu.IconMenuItemView");
            Class dataClass = Class.forName("com.android.internal.view.menu.MenuItemImpl");
            Method getData = itemClass.getDeclaredMethod("getItemData");
            Method getIcon = dataClass.getDeclaredMethod("getIcon");
            Object data = getData.invoke(view);
            Object icon = getIcon.invoke(data);
            if(icon instanceof Drawable){
                return (Drawable) icon;
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
        }
        return null;
    }
    
    protected void fixMenuItemView(View view, Context context){
        Drawable icon = getMenuItemIcon(view);
        if(icon != null){
            int color = context.getResources().getColor(R.color.themeColorExtraForeground);
            icon.setColorFilter(color, Mode.MULTIPLY);
        }

        if(view instanceof TextView){
            TextView text = (TextView) view;
            text.setTextAppearance(context, R.style.themeMenuItem);
        }
    }
}