Change ActionBar text color

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I want to change my ActionBar color to blue (#0c01e3). My code is working because the actionbar background property is doing its job. But the text won't change. Any ideas? I'm using ABS.

<style name="MyActionBar1" parent="Widget.Sherlock.Light.ActionBar.Solid.Inverse">
        <item name="android:backgroundSplit">#06e301</item>
        <item name="android:backgroundStacked">#06e301</item>
        <item name="android:background">#06e301</item>
        <item name="background">#06e301</item>
        <item name="backgroundSplit">#B9001F</item>
        <item name="android:textColor">#0c01e3</item>
        >

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Which text are you trying to change? Are you trying to change the text of the ActionItems,Tabs, or spinner text? — Marco RS, Sep 21 '12 at 05:17
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10352022/how-to-set-title-color-in-actionbarsherlock Check out this post. — Marco RS, Sep 21 '12 at 05:22
It looks like I need to not include the proceeding "android:" but I get an error. I'm updating my question with a picture now. — EGHDK, Sep 21 '12 at 05:35
possible duplicate of [ActionBar text color](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5861661/actionbar-text-color) — Sam, Sep 22 '12 at 18:43

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 29 '14 at 05:14

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Set this in your Java Page .It works for me

ActionBar ab = getActionBar();    
 ab.setTitle(Html.fromHtml("<font color='#ffffff'>App Name</font>"));

answered Mar 29 '14 at 05:14

IntelliJ Amiya

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 21 '12 at 05:43

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add this and then try

    <item name="android:textColor">#ffffff</item>

answered Sep 21 '12 at 05:43

raghav chopra

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 21 '12 at 05:48

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On the theme, there is an attribute, actionItemTextColor, which controls this color.

Remember to specify it with and without the android: prefix when using ActionBarSherlock.

answered Sep 21 '12 at 05:48

Jake Wharton

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`#ffffff` doesn't work. Are you telling me to go into the ABS theme and change it? – EGHDK Sep 21 '12 at 05:51
actionbarsherlock.com has more than enough to get by. – EGHDK Sep 21 '12 at 06:17

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 14 '14 at 20:15

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To improve on the answer of @IntelliJ Amiya:

    getActionBar().setTitle(
            Html.fromHtml("<font color='" + getResources().getColor(R.color.my_color) + "'>"
                    + getString(R.string.title_home) + "</font>"));

answered Sep 14 '14 at 20:15

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jan 15 '15 at 10:18

If you want to change that using xml ... This is what worked for me ...

<style name="MyActionBar"
    parent="@style/Widget.AppCompat.Light.ActionBar.Solid.Inverse">
    <item name="android:background">@color/titleBarBgColor</item>
    <item name="android:titleTextStyle">@style/EldTheme.ActionBar.TitleTextStyle</item>
    <item name="android:subtitleTextStyle">@style/EldTheme.ActionBar.TitleTextStyle</item>
    <!-- Support library compatibility -->
    <item name="background">@color/titleBarBgColor</item>
    <item name="titleTextStyle">@style/EldTheme.ActionBar.TitleTextStyle</item>
    <item name="subtitleTextStyle">@style/EldTheme.ActionBar.TitleTextStyle</item>
</style>
<style name="EldTheme.ActionBar.TitleTextStyle" parent="@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Widget.ActionBar.Title">
    <item name="android:textColor">@color/titleBarTextColor</item>
</style>

Change ActionBar text color

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