transparent padding in overflow menu in Jellybean

Im having a problem with the overflow menu in my device running API 16 Jellybean. As you can see in the photo below it is rendered with transparent padding. I run the default Blank Activity of Android studio after creating a new project with a minsdk of API 16 and targetsdk of API 23 and this is how the overflow menu looks like. I hope someone can tell me why is this happening.

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Thanks Karakuri, your answer solved my problem. I did upgrade to gradle plugin 2.2.0-alpha2 recently and I didn't notice this issue because I was always testing using my other device running API 22. So downgrading it to 2.1.0 solve this issue.