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user2510115

Reputation: 702

Change an action bar color in Android

this question is already ask on stack overflow but didn't work for me.

I want to change my action bar color only like facebook app the top action is in blue color and rest of the thing has white background color.

I tried using the post in stack overflow but, it's change my full activity color to white instead of just only the action bar.

Here is my style.xml and 

<style name="CustomActivityTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme.Holo">
    <item name="android:actionBarTabStyle">@color/blue_base</item>
    <!-- other activity and action bar styles here -->
</style>

manifest.xml

<application
    android:allowBackup="true"
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:theme="@style/CustomActivityTheme">

Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 717

Answers (2)

Gokhan Arik
Gokhan Arik

Reputation: 2766

Now I realized where you did wrong. You can't pass color to actionBarTabStyle, you have to pass style. Instead you can define your style and pass it to it like this,

<style name="MyActionBar" parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.ActionBar">
    <item name="android:background">@drawable/ab_background</item>
</style>

This example from Android Developers page, if you take a look at there they explain very well.

There is another good article also on Android Developers Blog

Upvotes: 0

Dalmas
Dalmas

Reputation: 26547

You can't use a color directly, you have to use a drawable :

action_bar_bg.xml :

<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <solid android:color="@color/blue_base"/>
</shape>

Then this should work :

<item name="android:actionBarTabStyle">@drawable/action_bar_bg</item>

Upvotes: 2

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