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Mike
Mike

Reputation: 6839

Change title color in toolbar?

I have a toolbar that I use, and set title with:

((ActionBarActivity)getActivity()).getSupportActionBar().setTitle("Home");

Is there a way to change the color from black to white?

I tried making its own theme and setting it in the xml like this, but no dice:

<resources>

    <!-- Base application theme. -->
    <style name="AppTheme2" parent="Theme.AppCompat">
        <item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
        <item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
        <item name="colorPrimary">@color/primary</item>
        <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/primary_dark</item>
        <item name="colorAccent">@color/accent</item>
        <item name="android:textColorPrimary">@color/primary_text</item>
        <item name="android:textColorSecondary">@color/secondary_text</item>

    </style>

    <style name="Widget.MyApp.ActionBar" parent="Widget.AppCompat.ActionBar">
        <item name="android:background">@color/primary</item>
        <item name="theme">@style/ThemeOverlay.MyApp.ActionBar</item>
        <item name="popupTheme">@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light</item>
    </style>

    <style name="ThemeOverlay.MyApp.ActionBar" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.ActionBar">
        <item name="android:textColorPrimary">#FFFFFF</item>
    </style>



</resources>

XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:background="#e5e5e5"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
        android:id="@+id/toolbar"
        android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
        android:background="@color/primary"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        style="@style/Widget.MyApp.ActionBar">

        <Spinner
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:id="@+id/statsSpin"
            android:spinnerMode="dropdown"
            android:textColor="#FFFFFF"/>


    </android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>



    <ListView
        android:id="@+id/yourStats"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:dividerHeight="0px"
        android:divider="@null"

        >
    </ListView>



</LinearLayout>

Upvotes: 40

Views: 77854

Answers (17)

Devarsh Bhatt
Devarsh Bhatt

Reputation: 74

Here I fixed it using the code below and it works on every API level:

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/color_primary</item>
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/color_primary_dark</item>
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/color_accent</item>
    <item name="toolbarStyle">@style/CustomToolBarStyle</item>
</style>

<style name="CustomToolBarStyle" parent="@style/Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar">
    <item name="titleTextColor">@color/title_text_color</item>
</style>

Upvotes: 2

Doctiger
Doctiger

Reputation: 2508

I found the rather simple solution.

It can be done by the following ways (by XML or programmatically).

First (XML solution):

<androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar
    android:id="@+id/toolbar"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
    app:layout_scrollFlags="scroll|enterAlways"
    app:popupTheme="@style/Theme.AppCompat.NoActionBar"
    app:titleTextColor="@color/white" />

Second (programmatically):

val toolbar = findViewById<Toolbar>(R.id.toolbar)
toolbar.setTitleTextColor(Color.WHITE)

The second solution requires min SDK version over 21, for your note.

Upvotes: 0

user10772525
user10772525

Reputation:

Inside of android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar, add this line:

local:titleTextColor="@color/the_color_you_want"

Upvotes: 0

Junaid Ali
Junaid Ali

Reputation: 185

You can change it programmatically by using following code.

toolbar.setTitleTextColor(android.graphics.Color.WHITE);

Upvotes: 0

Jerry U
Jerry U

Reputation: 638

In Kotlin, using Sandip's answer:

with(getSupportActionBar()) {
        val titleText: String = title.toString()
        setTitle(Html.fromHtml("<font color='#746E66'>" + titleText + "</font>"))
    }

Upvotes: 0

Didier Corronel
Didier Corronel

Reputation: 335

You can change the theme of your action bar using the attribute actionBarTheme as follow. Although it has been added in API level 21 it seems to be compatible with older APIs.

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">
    <item name="actionBarTheme">@style/AppTheme.AppBarOverlay</item>
</style>

Upvotes: 0

Arnav Rao
Arnav Rao

Reputation: 7002

You can define custom tool bar style by extending Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar and setting titleTextAppearance and subtitleTextAppearance properties. This way you can change color and text size of title and subtitle of toolbar for reference http://www.zoftino.com/android-toolbar-tutorial .

<style name="MyAppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
        <item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
        <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
        <item name="toolbarStyle">@style/MyToolBarStyle</item>
    </style>
    <style name="MyToolBarStyle" parent="Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar">
        <item name="titleTextAppearance">@style/MyTitleTextAppearance</item>
        <item name="subtitleTextAppearance">@style/MySubTitleTextAppearance</item>
    </style>
    <style name="MyTitleTextAppearance" parent="TextAppearance.Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar.Title">
        <item name="android:textSize">25dp</item>
        <item name="android:textColor">#ff3d00</item>
    </style>
    <style name="MySubTitleTextAppearance" parent="TextAppearance.Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar.Subtitle">
        <item name="android:textSize">20dp</item>
        <item name="android:textColor">#1976d2</item>
    </style>

Upvotes: 3

slymnozdmrc
slymnozdmrc

Reputation: 400

It can be changed programatically as you can above answer. But reduce code complexity, you should change it via style.xml First of all create attrs.xml to under res/values folder than add two reference to attrs.xml folder like below

attrs.xml

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <resources>
    <attr name="toolbar_theme" format="reference" />
    <attr name="toolbar_theme_title" format="reference" />
</resources>

After defination of reference than create a style in style.xml like below

style.xml 

<style name="CustomTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
      <item name="colorPrimary">#00A4E4</item>
      <item name="colorPrimaryDark">#AB0634</item>
      <item name="colorAccent">#AB0634</item>
      <item name="toolbar_theme">@style/CustomTheme.Toolbar</item>
      <item name="toolbar_theme_title">@style/CustomTheme.Toolbar.Title</item>
      <item name="android:textColorPrimary">@color/black</item>
      <item name="android:textColorSecondary">@android:color/black</item>
      <item name="windowActionModeOverlay">true</item>
</style>

<style name="CustomTheme.Toolbar" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.ActionBar">
     <!-- if you have a navigationdrawer you change it color also -->
     <item name="colorControlNormal">#AB0634</item>
</style>

<style name="CustomTheme.Toolbar.Title" parent="TextAppearance.Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar.Title">
     <!-- Set title size -->
     <item name="android:textSize">@dimen/abc_text_size_title_material_toolbar</item>
     <!-- Set title color -->
     <item name="android:textColor">#AB0634</item>
</style>

Now we have created toolbar_theme and toolbar_theme_title reference in attrs.xml than give these references to our custom theme in style.xml

Finally we give this reference to toolbar like below

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
     android:id="@+id/toolbar"
     android:layout_width="match_parent"
     android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
     android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
     android:theme="?attr/toolbar_theme"
     app:titleTextAppearance="?attr/toolbar_theme_title"
     android:elevation="4dp"
     app:popupTheme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light" />

Thats it. You can give this theme programatically or set in androidmanifest.xml like below.

programmatically

 public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    setTheme(R.style.CustomTheme); // (for Custom theme)
    this.setContentView(R.layout.myactivity);

androidmanifest.xml

 <application
     android:theme="@style/CustomTheme">

or

 <activity
     android:theme="@style/CustomTheme">

Upvotes: 1

Fakhriddin Abdullaev
Fakhriddin Abdullaev

Reputation: 4940

Use this code

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
        android:id="@+id/toolbar"
        app:titleTextColor="@color/colorAccent"
        app:theme="@style/ToolbarColoredBackArrow"
        app:subtitleTextColor="@color/colorAccent"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
        android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
        app:popupTheme="@style/AppTheme.PopupOverlay" />

Upvotes: 0

ianhanniballake
ianhanniballake

Reputation: 200120

Per the Theme vs Style blog post by the creator of AppCompat and the post on version 21 of AppCompat, a DarkActionBar toolbar (i.e., a Toolbar with a dark background and light text), can be accomplished by adding android:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar" to your Toolbar's XML:

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
    android:id="@+id/toolbar"
    android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
    android:background="@color/primary"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar"
    app:popupTheme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light">

    <Spinner
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:id="@+id/statsSpin"
        android:spinnerMode="dropdown"/>


</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>

This will change text color and the default colors to many attributes (such as your Spinner to light text as is needed for the dark background.

Upvotes: 29

dara
dara

Reputation: 763

I know there are a lot of answers above hope, it will help someone who doesn't understand above answers.

Android has view called Toolbar.This view has title which always takes as default color from color.xml resources which item name is accent.You can change your toolbar color in two way.

  1. Via xml which I recommend you to do that, here below you can see example

    <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
    android:id="@+id/toolbar"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
    app:titleTextColor="@color/White" />Here you can change it.Remember APP attribute not ANDROID

  2. Via programmatically within activity or fragment.

    Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar)findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
toolbar.setTitleTextColor(ContextCompat.getColor(this, R.color.colorAccent));

Upvotes: 10

Rashmi Jain
Rashmi Jain

Reputation: 373

In xml:

app:titleTextColor="@color/White" as

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
    android:id="@+id/tb_top"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
    android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
    app:theme="@style/AppTheme.DarkToolbar"
    app:titleTextColor="@color/White" />

Upvotes: 0

Jordan Adcock
Jordan Adcock

Reputation: 1

toolbar.setTitleTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.black));

(toolbar is the name you've give your toolbar in your acitivyt class) (In your colors values xml set your desired colors and reference it to the color name you chose, as seen here I keep some of my main colors normal names) Took me a while to figure this out myself but this is the only way I can get it to work, the ThemEditor should allow this but it is what it is.

Upvotes: 0

ZeroNine
ZeroNine

Reputation: 792

To extend on tachyonflux, to set color with a HEX

 toolbar.setTitleTextColor(Color.parseColor("#519c3f"));

Upvotes: 0

Sandip Patel
Sandip Patel

Reputation: 501

If you want to change only title text color than, Try this one..

getSupportActionBar().setTitle(Html.fromHtml("<font color='#746E66'>"+titleText+"</font>"));

it works..!!

Upvotes: 6

Sanal
Sanal

Reputation: 438

Create a new style in application base theme

  <style name="custom_toolbar" parent="@style/Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar">
        <item name="titleTextColor">#replace with color</item>
  </style>

and use the style for the toolbar 

  <item name="toolbarStyle">@style/custom_toolbar</item>

Upvotes: 29

tachyonflux
tachyonflux

Reputation: 20221

Programatically:

toolbar.setTitleTextColor(0xFFFFFFFF);

Upvotes: 56

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