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user3463901

Reputation: 11

Action bar menu font color change using appcompat

I have a contextual action mode, the text color of the action bar menu should be red in color. I am able to change the text color using

<style name="AppTheme" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light">
    <!-- Setting values in the android namespace affects API levels 14+ -->
    <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/MyStyledActionBar</item>
</style>

<style name="MyStyledActionBar" parent="@style/Widget.AppCompat.Light.ActionBar">
    <!-- Setting values in the android namespace affects API levels 14+ -->
    <item name="android:background">@drawable/bg_action_bar</item>
    <item name="android:titleTextStyle">@style/MyActionBarTitleText</item>
    <item name="android:actionMenuTextAppearance">@style/MyActionBarMenuText</item>
    <item name="android:actionMenuTextColor">@style/MyActionBarMenuText</item>
    <item name="android:actionOverflowButtonStyle">@style/MyActionButtonOverFlow</item>
</style>

<style name="MyActionBarTitleText" parent="@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Widget.ActionBar.Title">
    <item name="android:textColor">@color/font_half_white</item>
</style>

<style name="MyActionBarMenuText" parent="@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Widget.ActionBar.Menu">
    <item name="android:textColor">@color/font_half_white</item>
</style>

<style name="MyActionButtonOverFlow" parent="@style/Widget.AppCompat.Light.Base.ActionButton.Overflow">
    <item name="android:src">@drawable/ic_action_search</item>
</style>

It works in android 2.3, 4.1. but when i run the same in android 4.4. It shows the default black color

Can anyone please let me know, what is the issue.

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2643

Answers (2)

kodartcha
kodartcha

Reputation: 1073

Maybe it is not the cleanest way to do this but to change the color of my action bar text I use HTML code in the java classe like this:

getSupportActionBar().setTitle(Html.fromHtml("<font color='#FF0000'>"+Your Title+"</font>"));

Hope it helps!

Upvotes: 1

Ando Masahashi
Ando Masahashi

Reputation: 3122

please use below code its working for me

and still if you have doubt and its not working then tell me 

<resources>

<!--
    Base application theme for API 14+. This theme completely replaces
    AppBaseTheme from BOTH res/values/styles.xml and
    res/values-v11/styles.xml on API 14+ devices.
-->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="AppBaseTheme">

    <!-- <item name="windowBackground">@color/background_window</item> -->
    <!-- <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/ActionBarStyle</item> -->

    <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/MyActionBar</item>
</style>

<style name="MyActionBar" parent="@android:style/Widget.ActionBar">
    <item name="android:icon">@drawable/ic_launcher</item>
    <item name="android:background">#FF666666</item>
    <item name="android:titleTextStyle">@style/MyActionBarTitleText</item>
</style>

<style name="MyActionBarTitleText" parent="@android:style/TextAppearance.Holo.Widget.ActionBar.Title">
    <item name="android:textColor">@android:color/holo_blue_bright</item>
</style>

Upvotes: 0

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