change the background of an action bar on an activity that extends ActionBarActivity

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I'm trying to change the action bar background color of an activity that extends ActionBarActivity. So far my styles.xml looks like this

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">
    <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/MyActionBar</item>
</style>

<style name="MyActionBar" parent="@style/Widget.AppCompat.ActionBar">
    <item name="android:background">#ff2b8bff</item>
</style>

And I call on the style in my manifest like this

 android:theme="@style/AppTheme"

The problem is that the action bar is always grey,it never changes to the color I have specified.I know there is a lot of information on questions like this already but none of them have worked for me.I'm just wondering what it is I am missing.

@Ryan unfortunately this leads to the error "You need to use a Theme.AppCompat theme (or descendant) with this activity." — Robert Kenny, Mar 26 '15 at 20:32
Change that to `Activity`. Here's the reason : http://stackoverflow.com/a/21815015/3498044 — priyank, Mar 26 '15 at 20:38

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:30

This should do:

<style name="AppTheme" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light">
    <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/MyActionBar</item>
    <item name="actionBarStyle">@style/MyActionBar</item>
</style>

<style name="MyActionBar" parent="@style/Widget.AppCompat.Light.ActionBar.Solid.Inverse">
    <item name="android:background">@color/red</item>
    <item name="background">@color/red</item>
</style>

From here.

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:43

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The reason you are having this problem is because the activity you are trying to apply the dialog theme to is extending ActionBarActivity which requires the AppCompat theme to be applied.

Change the Java inheritance from ActionBarActivity to Activity and leave the dialog theme in the manifest as it is.

Source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/21815015/3498044

edited May 23 '17 at 11:43

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