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eyes enberg
eyes enberg

Reputation: 586

Unable to set custom background colour of ActionBar

I'm trying to make the background colour of my ActionBar a colour corresponding to the code. For some reason my app crashes when it reaches this line of code.

    getActionBar().setBackgroundDrawable(new ColorDrawable(Color.parseColor("#3f9845")));

When I remove it the error goes (ActionBar background is set to black by default). I've tried rearranging the line to be above and below 

    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.layout_register1);

but still no luck.

This is the theme I'm using if it has any relevance

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar"> </style>

Thanks in advance for any help

Upvotes: 0

Views: 51

Answers (2)

BladeCoder
BladeCoder

Reputation: 12929

If you are using AppCompat, you need to call getSupportActionBar() instead.

If you want to change the color by style with the recent versions of AppCompat, you just need to set the "colorPrimary" attribute in your theme to the color you want.

Upvotes: 1

ligi
ligi

Reputation: 39529

you can set it in the style:

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
    <!-- colorPrimary is used for the default action bar background -->
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/my_action_bar_color</item>
</style>

Upvotes: 1

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