AppCompat ActionBar Background Color

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I have this style.xml inside my Android app:

<resources xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<style name="OrangeTheme" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat">
    <item name="android:actionBarStyle" tools:ignore="NewApi">@style/OrangeTheme.OrangeActionBar</item>
    <item name="android:windowActionBar">true</item>
</style>

<style name="OrangeTheme.OrangeActionBar" parent="@style/Widget.AppCompat.ActionBar">
    <item name="android:background">@color/orange</item>
    <item name="background">@color/orange</item>
    <item name="android:backgroundStacked">@color/orange</item>
    <item name="android:backgroundSplit">@color/orange</item>
    <item name="android:titleTextStyle">@style/Theme.MyAppTheme.ActionBar.TitleTextStyle</item>
</style>

<style name="Theme.MyAppTheme.ActionBar.TitleTextStyle" parent="android:style/TextAppearance.Holo.Widget.ActionBar.Title">
    <item name="android:textColor">@color/black</item>
</style>

I have searched StackOverflow and Google, but nothing helped. I wasn't able to change the ActionBar background color.

Inside my MainActivity, I use this code:

 public void restoreActionBar() {
    ActionBar actionBar = getSupportActionBar();
    actionBar.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_STANDARD);
    actionBar.setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(true);
    actionBar.setTitle(mTitle);
}

I tried not to use AppCompat, but then my name has a lot of errors. It extends ActionBarActivity. If I change it to FragmentActivity I can't use getSupportActionBar() and without it my getActionBar(), is always null.

minSdkVersion 19
targetSdkVersion 21

So right now I am not able to change it. I tried renaming the parent of my style theme. I tried using andrioud:background and background. The only thing that is changing is when I use another parent like Theme.App.Compat.Light or Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar.

Does someone have an idea, how I could be able to change the colors and other stuff, on runtime?

Hope this helps! http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23155637/change-background-color-of-the-action-bar-using-appcompat — user2234, Dec 04 '14 at 09:19

GPack · Answer 1 · 2014-12-06T10:43:25.790

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With new AppCompat-v7 (v21) you can use new color theming attributes. See here.

Or alternatively you have to use <item name="actionBarStyle"> property (without prefix android).

edited Dec 06 '14 at 10:43

answered Dec 06 '14 at 08:08

GPack

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 01 '15 at 08:47

To use background color with AppCompat, you need to also define the item name without the android: attribute.

for example:

<style name="MyActionBar" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">
    <item name="android:background">@color/action_bar_background</item>

    <item name="background">@color/action_bar_background</item> //<--background item without the android attribute
</style>

and then in your custom theme do the same thing for the custom actionbar style:

<!-- Base application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">
    <!-- Customize your theme here. -->
    <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/MyActionBar</item>
    <item name="actionBarStyle">@style/MyActionBar</item>
</style>

AppCompat ActionBar Background Color

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