Overriding Appbarbutton brushes wp8.1 (Winrt) not working - xaml

I try to override AppBarItemPressedForegroundThemeBrush in my App.xaml to change the highlight color when pressing on icon in the appbar. I do not understand why this is not working. I thought in WP 8.1 it is possible, but no color overriding nor applying any custom style is helping. It will be all completly ignored. In WP 8 at least I could override the accent color, but this is no more possible, or I do not know how.
Does anybody can help me?
It would be great.
bye
Markus

You cannot override the colours on individual AppBarButtons in the AppBar on Windows Phone. You can set the foreground and background colours of the AppBar itself and that will reflect in the AppBarButtons.

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