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I'm using the new ActionBarCompat support library.
The action buttons in the actionbar should change their background when pressed, It works with Android 4.3 but not with Gingerbread. In Gingerbread if I press on a button it will not change the background. I even changed the selector:

<style name="Theme.MyCustomTheme" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light">
    <item name="selectableItemBackground">@drawable/actionbar_item_bg_selector</item>
</style>

And again it is working with Android 4.3 but not with Gingerbread. Is this a bug ?

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I figured out what was the problem. You should copy the android selector and modify it.

styles.xml

<style name="Theme.NewTransaction" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
        <item name="selectableItemBackground">@drawable/actionbar_item_bg_selector</item>
</style>

actionbar_item_bg_selector.xml

<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

    <item android:state_window_focused="false" android:drawable="@color/transparent" />

    <!-- Even though these two point to the same resource, have two states so the drawable will invalidate itself when coming out of pressed state. -->
    <item android:state_focused="true"  android:state_enabled="false" android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="@drawable/list_selector_background_disabled" />
    <item android:state_focused="true"  android:state_enabled="false"                              android:drawable="@drawable/list_selector_background_disabled" />
    <item android:state_focused="true"                                android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="@drawable/list_selector_background_transition" />
    <item android:state_focused="false"                               android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="@drawable/list_selector_background_transition" />
    <item android:state_focused="true"                                                             android:drawable="@drawable/list_selector_background_focused" />
    <item android:drawable="@color/transparent" />

</selector>

I think my problem was related to this comment:
Even though these two point to the same resource, have two states so the drawable will invalidate itself when coming out of pressed state.

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