Is it possible to style the standard react-native android picker?

I am unable to style it. There is hardly any documentation on styling Picker. I want to know how to set the fontFamily. How to set the color and background color on the Picker.items?

https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/picker.html

Setting fontFamily or background color doesn’t work. Wrapping it up in a View and giving style attributes to View also doesn’t work.

<Picker
   style={styles.picker} // cannot set fontFamily here
   selectedValue={this.state.selected2}
   onValueChange={this.onValueChange.bind(this, 'selected2')}
   mode="dropdown">
   <Item label="hello" value="key0" /> // cannot set backgroundColor here
   <Item label="world" value="key1" />
</Picker>

here is the snippet on RNPlayground https://rnplay.org/apps/oAR0qA

I posted a question on SO but didn’t get any answers: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38921492/how-to-style-the-standard-react-native-android-picker

I am using RN 0.29 , Android and working on a Mac

[abhisheknalin]

Thanks. I solved it with the help of your pointer and SO community. See the solution here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/39141949/2381508

[abhisheknalin]

Thanks for the pointer. Unfortunately I am not a native andorid developer so I have trouble understanding the solution. I added the following snippet to /res/values/styles.xml but nothing changed.

<resources>

    <!-- Base application theme. -->
    <style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
        <!-- Customize your theme here. -->
    </style>
    <style name="SpinnerItem">
        <item name="android:textColor">#993399</item>
        <item name="android:background">#993399</item>
    </style>
    <style name="SpinnerDropDownItem">
        <item name="android:textColor">#993399</item>
        <item name="android:background">#993399</item>
    </style>

</resources>

Do I need to make changes elsewhere also?