Change the color of title of ActionMode android

Question

This is my action mode bar:

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You can see the light text "1 selected". I am trying from hours to change its color but can't found any solution. Also I want to change the color of the separator in the right side of tick image. Any ideas?

My style.xml:

<resources>

<style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="android:Theme.Holo.Light.DarkActionBar">
    <item name="actionBarStyle">@style/ActionStyle</item>
    <item name="actionBarTabTextStyle">@style/MyTabTextStyle</item>
    <item name="android:actionModeBackground">@drawable/bg_bar</item>
    <item name="android:actionModeCloseDrawable">@drawable/ic_done</item>
</style>

<style name="ActionStyle" parent="Widget.Sherlock.ActionBar">
    <item name="background">@color/action_bar_color</item>
</style>

<style name="MyTabTextStyle" parent="Widget.Sherlock.ActionBar.TabText">
    <item name="android:textColor">#FFFFFF</item>
    <item name="android:textStyle">bold</item>
    <item name="background">@color/action_bar_color</item>
    <item name="android:textSize">14dp</item>
</style>

</resources>

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6556116/how-can-i-customize-the-action-modes-color-and-text — Raghunandan, Jun 05 '14 at 15:18
@Raghunandan I commented there : "How to use this style in my AppTheme". — berserk, Jun 05 '14 at 15:19
@Raghunandan Can you please tell me how to include the style in my AppTheme style? — berserk, Jun 05 '14 at 15:22
@DylanWatson Sorry, its not working. I used black color, but its showing same color as in screenshot. — berserk, Jun 11 '14 at 14:19

Dylan Watson · Answer 1 · 2016-01-27T06:19:16.537

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Using Actionbar Sherlock and XML, you can use Widget.Sherlock.ActionMode:

<!-- Tell Sherlock to use the customised ActionMode Style --->
<style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="android:Theme.Sherlock.Light.DarkActionBar">
  <item name="android:actionModeStyle">@style/MyActionModeStyle</item>
</style>

<!-- Setup the style of the ActionMode here --->
<style name="MyActionModeStyle" parent="Widget.Sherlock.ActionMode">
    <item name="background">@color/action_bar_color</item>
    <item name="android:titleTextStyle">@android:style/My.ActionMode.Title</item>
</style>

<!-- Setup the text style of the ActionMode here --->
<style name="My.ActionMode.Title">
    <item name="android:textColor">@android:color/white</item>
    <item name="android:textStyle">bold</item>
    <item name="android:shadowColor">@android:color/black</item>
    <item name="android:shadowRadius">1</item>
</style>

edited Jan 27 '16 at 06:19

answered Jun 09 '14 at 07:44

Dylan Watson

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I want to change the color of title. – berserk Jun 09 '14 at 08:14
No worries. I've updated to include changing the ActionMode Text colour and style. – Dylan Watson Jun 10 '14 at 07:12
I was finally able to test this myself. I have updated the example with what worked for me. I was not using ActionBarSherlock, so I had to set my api level to above 14 to use `android:actionModeStyle` but this worked for me. You may also find that `MyActionModeStyle` does not need to inherit from `Widget.Sherlock.ActionMode`, if this also causes issues. – Dylan Watson Jun 13 '14 at 08:32
Ok I will check it :) – berserk Jun 13 '14 at 08:33
How'd you go, did it work? – Dylan Watson Jul 07 '14 at 06:30

Change the color of title of ActionMode android

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