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chris
chris

Reputation: 4351

Android transparent ActionBar

For some reason the settings below don't result in the transparent action bar that I am trying for.

According to the docs, this is all that is required. Am I missing something?

AndroidManifest.xml 

<activity
    android:name=".ArtistTopSongsActivity"
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme.TransparentActionBar"
    android:parentActivityName=".ArtistSearchActivity">

    <meta-data
        android:name="android.support.PARENT_ACTIVITY"
        android:value=".ArtistSearchActivity" />
</activity>

styles.xml

<resources>

    <style name="AppTheme" parent="Base.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>
    </style>

    <style name="AppTheme.TransparentActionBar">
        <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/transparentActionBar</item>
        <item name="actionBarStyle">@style/transparentActionBar</item>
    </style>

    <style name="transparentActionBar">
        <item name="android:background">@android:color/transparent</item>
        <item name="background">@android:color/transparent</item>
    </style>

</resources>

Upvotes: 2

Views: 996

Answers (1)

chris
chris

Reputation: 4351

Turns out that to in addition to what I had above in the transparent theme, I also had to include the windowActionBarOverlay style item, as referenced here

<style name="AppTheme.TransparentActionBar">
    <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/transparentActionBar</item>
    <item name="actionBarStyle">@style/transparentActionBar</item>

    <item name="android:windowActionBarOverlay">true</item>
    <item name="windowActionBarOverlay">true</item>
</style>

Upvotes: 2

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