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Wael Showair
Wael Showair

Reputation: 3102

Unexpected effect of Holo Light Theme of my action bar

I have used XML to define the Theme of the action bar for my Main activity to be as follows:

<style name="AppTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme.Holo.Light" />

<style name="HomeTheme" 
    parent="@style/AppTheme">
    <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/HomeActionBarStyle</item>
</style>

 <style name="HomeActionBarStyle" 
    parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.ActionBar">
    <item name="android:displayOptions">showHome|showTitle</item>
</style>

Then in my Manifest file I have set the Theme of my activity with the defined Theme :

<activity
....
android:theme="@style/HomeTheme"
....
</activity>

everything went file as expected except two thing: 1) the border line of the action bar area is still blue 2) the background color of the action bar area is white not grey.

I am not sure what could be my mistake or this is just a bug in my emulator? I need to solve the previous two points just to have beautiful GUI

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1346

Answers (1)

Kevin Coppock
Kevin Coppock

Reputation: 134664

Change

parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.ActionBar"

to

parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar.Solid"

By default the standard ActionBar has the blue line under it instead of the gray. The solid variant is probably what you're looking for.

Upvotes: 4

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