Change color title bar

Question

I want to change the color of the title bar. I tried this:

<style name="AppTheme" parent="AppBaseTheme">
    <!-- All customizations that are NOT specific to a particular API-level can go here. -->
    <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/ColorBar</item>
</style>

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

But it doesn't work. What is wrong in my code shown above?

EDIT : it's the color of the text i want to change, not the background (it's running for the background)

i can't do it in the xml ? It's useless to do it in every activity :( — deveLost, May 22 '14 at 08:21

ElDuderino · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-22T08:34:43.670

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This should work for all devices, you will need the support library (appcompat_v7)

<style name="Theme" parent="@style/BaseTheme"></style>

<style name="BaseTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
    <item name="actionBarStyle">@style/ActionBar</item>
    <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/ActionBar</item>
</style>

<style name="ActionBar" parent="@style/Widget.AppCompat.Light.ActionBar">
    <item name="android:background">@color/orange </item>
    <item name="background">@color/orange </item>
    <item name="android:titleTextStyle">@style/ActionBar.Text</item>
    <item name="titleTextStyle">@style/ActionBar.Text</item>
</style>

<style name="ActionBar.Text" parent="@android:style/TextAppearance.Medium">
    <item name="android:textColor">@color/orange</item>
</style>

manifest :

 android:theme="@style/Theme"

edited May 22 '14 at 08:34

answered May 22 '14 at 08:29

ElDuderino

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there is a mistake, it's not the background i want to change, but the text in the title bar, i'm sorry – deveLost May 22 '14 at 08:32
updated my answer :) ... background and text is both orange now, so ... yeah, change one of it :) – ElDuderino May 22 '14 at 08:34
it says me it didn't find the att tilteTextStyle – deveLost May 22 '14 at 08:39

Nyx · Answer 2 · 2014-05-22T08:30:44.110

Does changing the parent to parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar.Solid" make a difference?

If not, let me know what happens if you move the

<item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/ColorBar</item> into the AppBaseTheme style

Try setting all of these:

    <item name="android:background">@color/something</item>
    <item name="android:backgroundStacked">@color/something</item>
    <item name="android:backgroundSplit">@color/something</item>

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 22 '14 at 08:28

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There may be problem with the android version. You should consider old ones and new ones. Try adding these both lines for different versions.

<item name="android:background">@drawable/your_color</item>
<item name="background">@drawable/your_color</item>

answered May 22 '14 at 08:28

eluleci

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there is a mistake, it's not the background i want to change, but the text in the title bar, i'm sorry. – deveLost May 22 '14 at 08:32

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered May 22 '14 at 08:44

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This is an easy way for settings the color of the actionbar-title by Java

getActionBar().setTitle(Html.fromHtml("<font color=\"#ffffff\">" + "TITLE" + "</font>"));

If you're using a support library, then you can use getSupportActionBar();.

answered May 22 '14 at 08:44

timbillstrom

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 25 '20 at 18:23

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I'm new to all of this but I found it easier to go to Res > Value > colors.xml and from there you can change the "primary color." This changed the title bar to the color I selected.

answered Apr 25 '20 at 18:23

Highdef

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