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Marco Menardi
Marco Menardi

Reputation: 49

AppCompat 21: name = colorPrimary not working together with name = actionBarStyle

When i'm using the item actionBarStyle, colorPrimary doesn't set the color to red. If i delete the item actionBarStyle, it works. How can i change my code to display the color?

<resources>

    <style name="AppTheme" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light">
        <item name="actionBarStyle">@style/MyStyledActionBar</item>
        <item name="colorPrimary">@color/red</item>
    </style>

    <style name="MyStyledActionBar" parent="@style/Widget.AppCompat.Light.ActionBar">
        <item name="titleTextStyle">@style/MyActionBarTitleText</item>
    </style>

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

</resources>

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2258

Answers (1)

adneal
adneal

Reputation: 30804

The root of Widget.AppCompat.Light.ActionBar is Base.Widget.AppCompat.ActionBar, which doesn't apply a background attribute. 

<style name="Base.Widget.AppCompat.ActionBar" parent="">
    ...
    <item name="background">@null</item>
    <item name="backgroundStacked">@null</item>
    <item name="backgroundSplit">@null</item>
    ...
</style>

Instead your parent should be Widget.AppCompat.Light.ActionBar.Solid, so that you'll inherit the attributes from Base.Widget.AppCompat.Light.ActionBar.Solid, which applies the background attribute.

<style name="Base.Widget.AppCompat.Light.ActionBar.Solid">
    <item name="background">?attr/colorPrimary</item>
    <item name="backgroundStacked">?attr/colorPrimary</item>
    <item name="backgroundSplit">?attr/colorPrimary</item>
</style>

Alternatively, you could just apply the background attribute yourself.

<style name="MyStyledActionBar" parent="@style/Widget.AppCompat.Light.ActionBar">
    <item name="titleTextStyle">@style/MyActionBarTitleText</item>
    <item name="background">?attr/colorPrimary</item>
</style>

Upvotes: 6

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