Changing text color in action bar?

Question

I can't seem to figure out how to change the color of the actionbar to white instead of the default black.

<resources>
    <style name="ActionBarOrange" parent="@android:style/Theme.Holo.Light.DarkActionBar">
        <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/MyActionBar</item>
        <item name="android:titleTextStyle">@style/MyTheme.ActionBar.TitleTextStyle</item>
    </style>

    <style name="MyActionBar" parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar">
        <item name="android:background">@color/orange</item>
    </style>

</resources>

Any help?

Found the answer I was looking for here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/5881739/2774766 — MyStackFlowethOver, Feb 05 '14 at 05:19

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 05 '14 at 01:55

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In this article you will find how to customize ActionBar and more things

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/actionbar.html#AdvancedStyles

answered Feb 05 '14 at 01:55

mohammed momn

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Phil · Answer 2 · 2014-02-05T02:20:33.900

Just use HTML:

String htmlColor;
Color orange = getResources().getColor(R.color.orange);
int alpha = Color.alpha(orange);
if (alpha == 0)
    htmlColor = String.format(Locale.US, "#%06X", (0xFFFFFF & orange));
else {
    int red = Color.red(orange);
    int green = Color.green(orange);
    int blue = Color.blue(orange);
    if (Build.VERSION >= 18) //KITKAT first provided CSS3 support
        htmlColor = String.format(Locale.US, "rgba(%d,%d,%d,%d)", red, green, blue, alpha);
    else 
        htmlColor = String.format(Locale.US, "#%06X", (0xFFFFFF & Color.argb(0, red, green, blue)));
}

getActionBar()/* or getSupportActionBar() */.setTitle(Html.fromHtml("<font color=\"" + hexColor + "\">" + getString(R.string.app_name) + "</font>"));

Changing text color in action bar?

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