Android - Customize the Action Bar

Question

I need to customize my Action Bar by changing color, substitute the default icons (settings and the "back" arrow) with custom images, and remove the Action Bar title with a custom font placed at the center of the Action Bar.

How can I apply these changes?

I already tried to change the background color of the Action Bar but it doesn't work, can you tell me why please?

<style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme.Holo.Light">
    <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/aBbG</item>
</style>

<style name="aBbG" parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar">
    <item name="android:background">#b10600</item>
</style>

Very thanks in advance!

Answer 1

I suggest you this way :

I suggest a way to you below , you can do like that( it is just one way I think)

• Hide your actionbar. like this : actionBar.hide();
• then create linearlayout and put it in your main activty which calls your fragments
• then you can customize your layout as you needs.

I do it as I said. You can see the screenshot below:(it is not actionbar it is linearlayout)