Styling sherlock ActionMode background

Question

Can't seem to style the ActionMode background.

I've already overridden actionbar background but setting the ActionMode background doesn't seem to work:

<style name="Theme.apptheme" parent="@style/Theme.Sherlock.Light.DarkActionBar">

...

<item name="actionBarStyle">@style/Widget.Styled.ActionBar</item>

<item name="actionModeBackground">@drawable/actionmode_background</item>
<item name="actionModeSplitBackground">@drawable/actionmode_split</item>

...

</style>

Any idea how to accomplish this?

On which API level have you tried? Have you tried also android:actionModeBackground ? — rciovati, Oct 03 '12 at 20:45

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 03 '12 at 22:14

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You're likely testing on ICS or JB, and therefore will not see any difference. You must also include these tags using the android: namespace.

E.g.

<item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/Widget.Styled.ActionBar</item>

<item name="android:actionModeBackground">@drawable/actionmode_background</item>
<item name="android:actionModeSplitBackground">@drawable/actionmode_split</item>

answered Oct 03 '12 at 22:14

Paul Burke

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Of course, why didn't I think of that!? :-) Thank you very much! – Sander Versluys Oct 04 '12 at 08:15

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