How do you change the colours of spinner control

I am trying to do so via this method:

Code:

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style="@style/SpinnerTextViewStyle"

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And I have this in one of the style.xml files created by default when I created the project.

Code:

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<style name="SpinnerTextViewStyle">
        <item name="android:layout_width">fill_parent</item>
        <item name="android:layout_height">wrap_content</item>
        <item name="android:textColor">#0000aa</item>
        <item name="android:textSize">16dp</item>
        <item name="android:background">#ffffff</item>
        <item name="android:padding">5dp</item>
    </style>

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This

Code:

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<item name="android:background">#ffffff</item>

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seems to work in the textview part but

Code:

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<item name="android:textColor">#0000aa</item>

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is totally ignored.

There must be some way of doing this!