How to change title bar color in android activity?

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Set title background color

How can I change the titlebar color in an Android app?

I tried:

this.setTitleColor(Color.BLUE);

but it changes color of written text on it not title bar color.

Yep, definitely. Vote to close, please. – Nik Reiman May 13 '11 at 09:10 — Nik Reiman, May 13 '11 at 09:10

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 11 '12 at 12:33

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getWindow() method of Context return the current view context, for get the title bar of an Activity, android.id.id.title

View title = getWindow().findViewById(android.R.id.title);
View titleBar = (View) title.getParent();
titleBar.setBackgroundColor(Color.RED);`

answered Apr 11 '12 at 12:33

Ashish Dwivedi

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it does n't work for me........gives a run time error – Lahiru Prasanna Apr 29 '14 at 05:39
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java.lang.NullPointerException – vNext Dec 09 '14 at 05:18
@vNext were you able to resolve this error ? – mrid Nov 30 '17 at 07:04

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