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I have several actions all of which display properly. When I click the actions however, the color comes up as the default blueish color and it looks awful with my app. How can I change the 'selected' color of the Action?

This is basically a duplicate of this question, except that one doesn't deal with ActionBarSherlock.

EDIT

Using the accepted answer, I am getting this error after adjusting style.xml

The error is error: Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches given name 'Theme'.

I entered it into my style.xml file exactly as given below. In the Sherlock library /res/values/abs_themes.xml file the style name matches mine exactly.

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Well, ABS uses (almost) the same API as the default ActionBar so just change the theme of the (duplicate) answer like this:

<style name="myStyle" parent="Theme.Sherlock">    
     <item name="android:selectableItemBackground">@android:drawable/item_background_holo_dark</item>
     <item name="selectableItemBackground">@android:drawable/item_background_holo_dark</item>
</style>

And the drawable:

<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:exitFadeDuration="@android:integer/config_mediumAnimTime">

<item android:drawable="@drawable/list_selector_disabled_holo_dark" android:state_enabled="false" android:state_focused="true" android:state_pressed="true"/>
<item android:drawable="@drawable/list_selector_disabled_holo_dark" android:state_enabled="false" android:state_focused="true"/>
<item android:drawable="@drawable/list_selector_background_transition_holo_dark" android:state_focused="true" android:state_pressed="true"/>
<item android:drawable="@drawable/list_selector_background_transition_holo_dark" android:state_focused="false" android:state_pressed="true"/>
<item android:drawable="@drawable/list_focused_holo" android:state_focused="true"/>
<item android:drawable="@color/transparent"/>

</selector>

You just inherit your styles from Theme.Sherlock and set an other selectableItemBackground attribute, but without the android: in front.

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  • OK thanks, I've never dealt with a style file like this before though. Where does it go? I saw somewhere there should be a `res/styles/` directory but I do not have one. Is that because I'm in a lower API? – JuiCe Jan 24 '13 at 19:18
  • No. Just in res/values/ there you should have a styles.xml file. – Ahmad Jan 24 '13 at 19:23
  • Sorry, but I'm still not getting it to work. I've edited my question with more info and the error i'm getting if you have the time. – JuiCe Jan 24 '13 at 19:35
  • I've just come back to this project and have a small follow up question about this. I create the drawable file, and then I just call something along the lines of `actionBar.setBackgroundDrawable( drawable_file.xml )`? – JuiCe Jul 08 '13 at 15:33