Change TextColor / Background of a single ActionBar Menu Item programmatically

Question

Is there a way to change the Text color or background color of a single ActionBar menu item by code ?

To be more clear, only one item of the actionBar should have a different color, the rest of them should be the original color.

If so, how exactly can I achieve this. Thank you.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19659637/how-to-change-the-background-color-of-action-bars-option-menu-in-android-4-2 — Vrashabh Irde, Feb 27 '15 at 10:28
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19659637/how-to-change-the-background-color-of-action-bars-option-menu-in-android-4-2 — Rohit Goswami, Feb 27 '15 at 10:29
Thanks for the replies, but those posts don't answer exactly my question, as I need to change only one item of the actionBar, the rest of them remaining the original color. — Phantom, Feb 27 '15 at 10:32

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 27 '15 at 10:29

add this lines at styles.xml

<style name="AppTheme" parent="AppBaseTheme">
    <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/MyActionBar</item>
</style>

<style name="MyActionBar" parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar">
    <item name="android:background">#de5188</item>
    <item name="android:titleTextStyle">@style/MyActionBarTitleText</item>
    <item name="android:subtitleTextStyle">@style/MyActionBarSubTitleText</item>
</style>

<style name="MyActionBarTitleText" parent="@android:style/TextAppearance.Holo.Widget.ActionBar.Title">
    <item name="android:textColor">#ffffff</item>
    <item name="android:textStyle">bold</item>
</style>

<style name="MyActionBarSubTitleText" parent="@android:style/TextAppearance.Holo.Widget.ActionBar.Title">
    <item name="android:textColor">#ffffff</item>
    <item name="android:textSize">10dp</item>
</style>

And change your manifasted as

 android:theme="@style/AppTheme"

I hope this one help to you :)

Thank you for the reply, but I need to change the color of only one item, the rest of 'em should be the original color. — Phantom, Feb 27 '15 at 10:31

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 27 '15 at 10:30

0

Background :

 ActionBar bar = getActionBar();
bar.setBackgroundDrawable(new ColorDrawable(Color.parseColor("#0000ff"))); //<-- Your Color

TextColor :

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

I think you can use both answer @user3515851 and mine.

answered Feb 27 '15 at 10:30

Skizo-ozᴉʞS ツ

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If you use this code you have to add this line for all activity.So it will not be better way :) – user3515851 Feb 27 '15 at 10:31
Read what he said to you, he only wants to use this of **only one item**, he can use yours or mine, becase he can define one theme only for one item or just use this on his item.. – Skizo-ozᴉʞS ツ Feb 27 '15 at 10:33
The problem is mine.sorry :( – user3515851 Feb 27 '15 at 10:34
did my answer helped to you? mark it as a correct if so :) – Skizo-ozᴉʞS ツ Jul 30 '15 at 20:56

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 04 '15 at 13:30

It would be better if you used a custom Layout for action bar for some cases like this.

actionBar.showCustomView(true)// or similar to this.
actionBar.setCustomView(view)// you can inflate the view as you wish

so you can customise as it was a normal layout like RelativeLayout.

I hope this helps.

Change TextColor / Background of a single ActionBar Menu Item programmatically

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