I've been trying to change the actionbar's color without any succes. I've been searching for a while now... I tried the solution of this post: How to change ActionBar color?
This is my styles.xml:
<resources>
<!-- Base application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/ActionBar</item>
</style>
<style name="ActionBar" parent="Widget.AppCompat.Light.ActionBar.Solid.Inverse">
<item name="android:background">#0091ea</item>
</style>
</resources>
You can do it by this way
<style name="MyTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme.Holo.Light">
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/MyActionBar</item>
</style>
<style name="MyActionBar" parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar">
<item name="android:titleTextStyle">@style/TitleBarTextColor</item>
<item name="android:background">YOUR_COLOR_CODE</item>
</style>
<style name="TitleBarTextColor" parent="@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Widget.ActionBar.Title">
<item name="android:textColor">YOUR_COLOR_CODE</item>
</style>
Obivously, you have to add this theme on your Activity in your AndroidManifest.
EDIT
Add those imports on your Activity
import android.app.ActionBar;
import android.graphics.drawable.ColorDrawable;
Just below on yout onCreate put this
ActionBar ab = getActionBar();
ColorDrawable colorDrawable = new ColorDrawable(Color.parseColor("#81a3d0"));
ab.setBackgroundDrawable(colorDrawable);
This works for me :
getActionBar().setBackgroundDrawable(new ColorDrawable(0xff1d97dd));
Let me know if it works :)
You can use the Android Asset Studio to create a custom ActionBar style, and therefore choose what color you want your AB to have.
You could also try the solution from this StackOverflow post How do I change the background color of the ActionBar of an ActionBarActivity using XML?
Quote:
Just in case, if you target for minimum API level 11 , you can change ActionBar's background color by defining custom style, as:
<resources> <style name="MyTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme.Holo.Light"> <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/MyActionBar</item> </style> <style name="MyActionBar" parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar"> <item name="android:background">ANY_HEX_COLOR_CODE</item> </style> </resources>
And, set "MyTheme" as theme for application / activity.
To change the action bar background, create a custom theme for your activity that overrides the actionBarStyle property. This property points to another style in which you can override the background property to specify a drawable resource for the action bar background.
When supporting Android 3.0 and higher only, you can define the action bar's background like this:
res/values/themes.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<!-- the theme applied to the application or activity -->
<style name="CustomActionBarTheme"
parent="@android:style/Theme.Holo.Light.DarkActionBar">
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/MyActionBar</item>
</style>
<!-- ActionBar styles -->
<style name="MyActionBar"
parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar.Solid.Inverse">
<item name="android:background">@drawable/actionbar_background</item>
</style>
</resources>
Then apply your theme to your entire app or individual activities:
AndroidManifest.xml
<application android:theme="@style/CustomActionBarTheme" ... />
You can set custom colors in your styles.xml
.
<resources>
<!-- inherit from the material theme -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="android:Theme.Material">
<!-- Main theme colors -->
<!-- your app branding color for the app bar -->
<item name="android:colorPrimary">@color/primary</item>
<!-- darker variant for the status bar and contextual app bars -->
<item name="android:colorPrimaryDark">@color/primary_dark</item>
<!-- theme UI controls like checkboxes and text fields -->
<item name="android:colorAccent">@color/accent</item>
</style>
</resources>
Then create a colors.xml
file and set your colors there in hex format.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<color name="primary">#F44336</color>
<color name="primaryDark">#D32F2F</color>
<color name="accent">#448AFF</color>
</resources>
Go here to learn more: https://developer.android.com/training/material/theme.html#ColorPalette
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