Is it possible to change AppBar text color in my theme (AppCompat)?

Question

I want to change only the AppBar text color, but in the Theme Editor (I use Android Studio) I can only change textColorPrimary (it changes AppBar text color but also the LargeText color).

My current theme:

I can change only textColorPrimary:

Now I change the text color like this:

style.xml

<resources>

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

</resources>

activity.xml

...
<android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
        ...
        android:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar">

        <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
           ...
            app:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar" />

        ...

</android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>

Is it possible to change text color in my AppTheme in style.xml?

simply use this : `yourToolbar.setTitleTextColor(Color.parse("#ffeeeeee"));` — Vivek_Neel, May 09 '16 at 10:23
Or define a style for your appbar such as in this answer : http://stackoverflow.com/a/18288460/4706693 — NSimon, May 09 '16 at 10:24
Try to check this: http://www.androiddocs.com/training/basics/actionbar/styling.html See section "Customize the Text Color". — Alex, Nov 17 '18 at 14:56

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 03 '18 at 17:24

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Create a custom theme which has as parent your desired base theme, such as ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar.
Add customizations to the theme. For title color it will be textColorPrimary. For overflow and icons it will be textColorSecondary.

Then use the custom theme you created to set theme for your toolbar.

edited May 03 '18 at 17:24

Toufic Batache

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answered May 09 '16 at 11:44

daxgirl

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does not work. I have set textColor, titleTextColor, and android:textColorPrimary to black but the title is still white. – Code Wiget Mar 25 '20 at 00:07

Utkarsh Singh · Answer 2 · 2018-10-12T10:38:26.863

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@color/colorForeground

You can just add "colorForeground" attribute in styles for changing the foreground color in appbar. This also changes the text colour and the color of the menu dots.

Or you can use the theme editor to edit the colors.

edited Oct 12 '18 at 10:38

answered Jun 27 '18 at 09:45

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Is it possible to change AppBar text color in my theme (AppCompat)?

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