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jfortunato
jfortunato

Reputation: 12057

How to change action bar title color in code

I'm having trouble changing androids action bar title color programmatically for v11 and up. I can get it done in xml but need to change it dynamically in code. How should I go about this? Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 46

Views: 50692

Answers (7)

Bourne Koloh
Bourne Koloh

Reputation: 99

For custom color to work, you need to use a NoActionBar eg android:Theme.NoTitleBar or one of its decendants, then manually add the Toobar in your layout, then setSupportActionBar in your activity's onCreate(),

Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar)findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
setSupportActionBar(toolbar);

Then you can set the title color in toolbar xml app:titleTextColor="@android:color/white"

See below;

<androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar
    
  app:navigationContentDescription="@string/abc_action_bar_up_description"
  app:titleTextColor="@android:color/white"
  android:id="@+id/toolbar"
  android:layout_width="match_parent"
  android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
  app:popupTheme="@style/AppTheme.PopupOverlay"
  app:navigationIcon="?attr/homeAsUpIndicator"
  app:title="@string/app_name" 
  android:minHeight="@dimen/abc_action_bar_default_height_material" />

Atleast this work form me 😊

Upvotes: 0

RAINA
RAINA

Reputation: 1012

Using Kotlin and SupportActionBar Use this ->

val mSpannableText = SpannableString(supportActionBar?.title)
    mSpannableText.setSpan(
        ForegroundColorSpan(Color.BLUE),
        0,
        mSpannableText.length,
        Spannable.SPAN_INCLUSIVE_INCLUSIVE
    )
    supportActionBar?.title = mSpannableText

Upvotes: 1

matiash
matiash

Reputation: 55340

If using the v7 appcompat library (tested with r22) then you can call setTitleTextColor() on the Toolbar object that substitutes the action bar for all API levels. For example:

Toolbar actionBarToolbar = (Toolbar)activity.findViewById(R.id.action_bar);
if (actionBarToolbar != null)
    actionBarToolbar.setTitleTextColor(Color.RED);

Upvotes: 16

Willy
Willy

Reputation: 950

You can use a SpannableString and ForegroundColorSpan to set the colour of the title

    Spannable text = new SpannableString(actionBar.getTitle());
    text.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.BLUE), 0, text.length(), Spannable.SPAN_INCLUSIVE_INCLUSIVE);
    actionBar.setTitle(text);

Upvotes: 85

adneal
adneal

Reputation: 30794

The ActionBar title ID is hidden, or in other words, it's internal and accessing it can't be done typically. You can reference it using Resources.getIdentifier then View.findViewById though.

Grab the ID for the action_bar_title

int titleId = getResources().getIdentifier("action_bar_title", "id", "android");

Now you can use the ID with a TextView

TextView abTitle = (TextView) findViewById(titleId);
abTitle.setTextColor(colorId);

Upvotes: 82

IvanP
IvanP

Reputation: 1104

Another way is using Html

getSupportActionBar().setTitle((Html.fromHtml("<font color=\"#FF4444\">" + getString(R.string.some_string) + "</font>")));

Upvotes: 35

salcosand
salcosand

Reputation: 2062

If you use Sherlock Actionbar you may use the sherlock-actionbar-id for supported actionbars (Android below 3.0)

int titleId = Resources.getSystem().getIdentifier("action_bar_title", "id", "android");    
if ( 0 == titleId ) 
        titleId = com.actionbarsherlock.R.id.abs__action_bar_title;

Upvotes: 9

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