Action bar with custom background not shown

Question

I am trying to change the background of the action bar via xml, but the action bar is not shown anymore at all.

This is the style that I am using, declared in styles.xml :

<style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
        <item name="actionBarStyle">@style/DiaryActionBar</item>
        <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/DiaryActionBar</item>
</style>


<style name="DiaryActionBar"
        parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
        <item name="background">@color/action_bar_bg</item>
        <item name="android:background">@color/action_bar_bg</item>
</style>

I have set both android:background and background for compatibility. This is the only styles.xml file in my app. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

In my style with custom actionbar background, i have this:

<style name="Theme.Malaka" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat">
<style name="Malaka.ActionBar" parent="@style/Widget.AppCompat.ActionBar">

And that works just fine. Items of the styles are the same as yours. Please note that the parent of Malaka.ActionBar is not Theme... but Widget...

Answer 2

For changing background and actionBarStyle from android styling.You can do like this..

    <style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme.Black">
        <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/Theme.DeviceDefault.NoActionBar</item>
    </style>

    <style name="DiaryActionBar" parent="@android:style/Theme.Black">
        <item name="android:background">@color/action_bar_bg</item>
    </style>