Change Android ShareActionProvider background color when pressed

Question

My app's primary color is some kind of yellow. The ShareActionProvider in the action bar has a kind of spinner that when pressed shows the default holo blue color.

To make the action bar style coherent, I need to have the share button background go yellow when pressed. How to achieve that?

I am using the standard action bar (no compatibility or sherlock)

That one does not work:

shareMenuItem.getActionView().setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.spinner_background_ab_webcamhd_custom_ab);

And none of the questions on SO about styling the ShareActionProvider got any answer :(

Answer 1

I wanted white share button with a white background to popup. So first I changed the textColorSecondary in my main theme to white.

<style name="MainTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
            <item name="colorPrimary">@color/appprimary</item>
            <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/appprimaryDark</item>
            <item name="colorAccent">@color/appaccent</item>
            <item name="android:textColorPrimary">#ffffff</item>
            <item name="android:textColorSecondary">#ffffff</item>
            <item name="android:textColor">#212121</item>
            <item name="listPopupWindowStyle">@style/PopupListStyle</item>
</style>

Then I used a custom style for the popup as given by intips' answer:

    <style name="PopupListStyle" parent="@style/Widget.AppCompat.Light.ListPopupWindow">
        <item name="android:popupBackground">#ffffff</item>
    </style>

And then in my toolbar I set this theme:

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
  android:id="@+id/toolbar"
  android:layout_width="match_parent"
  android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
  android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
  app:layout_collapseMode="pin"
  app:theme="@style/MainTheme">

Answer 2

I added this to my theme and it worked:

<item name="listPopupWindowStyle">@style/Widget.AppCompat.Light.ListPopupWindow</item>

So if you want to customize the colors you need to create your own style

Answer 3

Doesn't the ShareActionProvider use the standard Action Bar background? If so, you can control this by overriding the resource used in your theme. Eg

<style name="AppTheme" parent="android:Theme.Holo.Light">
    <item name="android:actionBarItemBackground">@drawable/your_selector</item>
</style>

For an example on how to build the XML Selector Drawable, check out the one used by the system , like this .

Update

How to find this yourself.

1. Look up source of SharedActionProvider and examine onCreateActionView() .
2. Follow to ActivityChooserView which is the View created in onCreateActionView() .
3. Observe the layout inflated in the constructor of ActivityChooserView , in this case R.layout.activity_chooser_view .
4. Look up source of R.layout.activity_chooser_view and find the layout used for the button, in this case @+id/expand_activities_button .
5. Observe the resource used for the background, in this case, android:background="?android:attr/actionBarItemBackground"

Answer 4

For anyone who has the same problem this is what worked for me:

-in AppTheme add:

    <item name="listPopupWindowStyle">@style/PopupListStyle</item>

-create new style for listpopup:

    <style name="PopupListStyle" parent="@style/Widget.AppCompat.Light.ListPopupWindow">
       <item name="android:popupBackground">@color/list_popup_bg</item>
    </style>