How to change the text color in Android Action bar

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Hello I need help on changing the text color of the action Bar the following is my style.xml.I need to change the text color to white including the settings icon.

    <resources>

    <!-- Base application theme. -->
    <style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
        <!-- Customize your theme here. -->
        <item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
        <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
        <item name="colorAccent">@color/colorAccent</item>
    </style>

    <style name="AppTheme.NoActionBar">
        <item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
        <item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
    </style>

    <style name="AppTheme.AppBarOverlay" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar" >

    </style>
    <style name="AppTheme.PopupOverlay" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light" />
</resources>

The String.xml source codes are as follows.

<resources>
    <string name="app_name">yebo</string>

    <string name="navigation_drawer_open">Open navigation drawer</string>
    <string name="navigation_drawer_close">Close navigation drawer</string>

    <string name="action_settings">Settings</string>

</resources>

Try this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5861661/actionbar-text-color — Jas, Mar 09 '16 at 11:53

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 09 '16 at 12:37

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Change in your style.

 <!-- Base application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
    <!-- Customize your theme here. -->
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/colorAccent</item>

Add underneath line:

    <item name="actionMenuTextColor">Your Color Here</item>
    <item name="textColorPrimary">Your Color Here</item>
</style>

Hope it helps.

edited Mar 09 '16 at 12:37

Dhruv

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answered Mar 09 '16 at 11:54

Jay Rathod

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textColorPrimary will then change the text color in other places, such as the overflow popup menu – Terry W Feb 18 '20 at 17:11

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 09 '16 at 11:55

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You can simply put color to your strings like this:

<string name="app_name"><![CDATA[<b><font color=#FFFFFF>yebo</b>]]></string>

answered Mar 09 '16 at 11:55

usamazf

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 09 '16 at 12:00

In your .axml put a RelativeLayout to add the actionbar. In here add a TextView with the property android:textColor="#FFFFFF". (#FFFFFF is white). As such:

<RelativeLayout
    android:id="@+id/titleBarLinearLayoutFrontPage"
    android:orientation="horizontal"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="55dp"
    android:background="#696969">
    <TextView
        android:textColor="#FFFFFF"
        android:id="@+id/txtActionBarText"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="My Action Bar"
        android:layout_gravity="center"
        android:clickable="true"
        android:layout_centerVertical="true"
        android:textSize="22dp"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_marginLeft="60dp"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true" />
</RelativeLayout>

score -1 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 09 '16 at 11:57

Valus/styles.xml uses colors.xml file. When you press "control" and click @color/colorPrimary it shows you where colorPrimary comes. Which is colors.xml. In your colors.xml file you can edit it.

When you click the colour on the left it opens color palette. And you can change it easily.

How to change the text color in Android Action bar

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