Set text color of actionbar?

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ActionBar text color

I have a plain actionbar for a v14 project. The style is defined like this:

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

<style name="MyActionBar" parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar">
    <item name="android:background">#f00</item>
    <item name="android:textColor">#fff</item>
</style>

The background color is red, which is great, but the text remains black. I want it to be white. How do I get it to cooperate?

Also, is there a listing of all the xml attributes you can you with an ActionBar? The ActionBar doc does not seem to list them, unless I'm missing them:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/ActionBar.html

that would be very helpful,

Thanks

Check this out. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5861661/actionbar-text-color — Raja Asthana, Jan 31 '13 at 14:39

Benito Bertoli · Answer 1 · 2014-03-28T10:57:38.127

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<style name="MyActionBar" parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar">
    <item name="android:background">#f00</item>
    <item name="android:titleTextStyle">@style/MyTextAppearance</item>
</style>

<style name="MyTextAppearance" parent="android:TextAppearance.Holo.Widget.ActionBar.Title">
    <item name="android:textColor">#ffffff</item>
</style>

edited Mar 28 '14 at 10:57

answered Jan 31 '13 at 14:41

Benito Bertoli

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Thanks, it works perfect! I query though, isn't `android:textColor` redundant in the `MyActionBar` style? – Sufian Mar 28 '14 at 10:51
You're right. I probably copied the code block from the question and forgot to remove it. – Benito Bertoli Mar 28 '14 at 10:57

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 31 '13 at 14:46

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The easiest way to customize the actionbar is to use this awesome Actionbar Style Generator :

http://jgilfelt.github.com/android-actionbarstylegenerator/

simply chose the colors and styles you want, download the zip and import the resources into your project.(only support the Chrome browser right now).

answered Jan 31 '13 at 14:46

Slickelito

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This doesn't let you set the text color though! – Avinash R Jun 19 '14 at 14:54

Set text color of actionbar?

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