Android ActionBar Overflow Checkbox Element
In my application, I have a custom checkbox for checkboxes, and it works by default in common areas of the interface, however it does not show up in the overflow menu when there is a checkbox, instead it shows the default holo checkbox!
Here is an example of a custom checkbox 
Here's how I managed to create an overflow menu (was hard), I'm looking for a style like this that will override the checkbox
<style name="OverflowMenu" parent="@style/Widget.Sherlock.ListPopupWindow">
<item name="android:popupBackground">@drawable/pop_dark</item>
</style>
<style name="DropDownListView" parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.ListView.DropDown">
<item name="android:divider">@android:color/transparent</item>
</style>
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If you override android:listChoiceIndicatorMultiple
in your theme, this applies to all checkboxes, both in the normal UI and in popup menus, i.e.
<style name="AppTheme" parent="android:Theme...">
<item name="android:listChoiceIndicatorMultiple">@style/YourCheckBoxStyle</item>
</style>
If you only want to check the checkboxes in the ActionBar, you can use android:actionBarWidgetTheme
as API 14:
<style name="AppTheme" parent="android:Theme...">
<item name="android:actionBarWidgetTheme">@style/MyActionBarWidgetScheme</item>
</style>
...
<style name="ActionBarWidgetTheme" parent="android:Widget">
<item name="android:listChoiceIndicatorMultiple">@drawable/YourCheckBoxStyle</item>
</style>
(Kudos Daniel Lew pointing out that one is .)
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