This is what my bottom navigation bar looks like at the moment:
Looks great right? Except that, right now you can see each icon clearly (or mostly clearly), however when you view it on my device you can barely make out the icons at all.
I have the following in my themes.xml at the moment:
...
<!-- Navigation bar colour. -->
<item name="android:navigationBarColor">#color/pink</item>
<item name="android:windowLightNavigationBar">false</item><!-- This does nothing -->
...
At the moment my minSdkVersion is 29 and my targetSdkVersion is 30.
How could I change the icons colour, or if that's not possible, at least have them a darker colour so they can be viewable?
You can't change color of navigation bar icons. But you can make it dark or light. Your pink navigation bar looks pretty light. So, set windowLightNavigationBar to true:
<item name="android:windowLightNavigationBar">true</item>
You could make it lighter only
Please try to this
<item name="android:navigationBarColor">#android:color/white</item>
<item name="android:windowLightNavigationBar">true</item>
<item name="android:statusBarColor">#android:color/transparent</item>
<item name="android:windowLightNavigationBar">true</item>
should be right. but you said it doens't work.
So I assumed there is another theme on your activity.
So, I sugest, in your activitiy or fragment code, how about set window flag directly.
try code below . It will make your icon dark
activity.window.decorView.systemUiVisibility = (
or View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LIGHT_NAVIGATION_BAR
or View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LIGHT_STATUS_BAR)
You're in the themes.xml file- have you tried adding this to the styles.xml file?
<item name="android:navigationBarColor">#color/black</item>
Also, this Styles and Themes page might help you out! They have a comparison and pretty good explanations with examples. For example, you can customize the default theme that you're using like this:
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
<!-- Customize your theme here. -->
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/colorPrimary</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
<item name="colorAccent">#color/colorAccent</item>
</style>
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On android 7 (nexus phone) the title in my context menu appears white. I would expect it to be black as it is on all other devices I tested. The rest of the app looks good.
Update:
I figured out that the colorAccent is the culprit (AppCompat styles various things based on that). I set it to white in a child theme because the tabBar needs to have white tab indicators.
So now the issues is that I need white tab indicators in the actionbar, black titles in dialogs and context menus and Orange text on buttons styled with the Button.Borderless.Colored style. All of these seem to be controlled with colorAccent. I can make a seperate style for the buttons. But the styles of the dialogs and tab indicators are still conflicting. For legacy reasons I cannot use the new toolbar with a tablayout (That one is stylable) but have to use the Actionbar. Any ideas?
White title in context menu screenshot:
Thanks in advance!
Theme:
<resources>
<!-- default theme -->
<style name="Theme.MyApp" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
<!-- Remove actionbar -->
<item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
<item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
<!-- Basic coloring -->
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/MyAppOrange</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#color/MyAppOrangeDark</item>
<item name="colorAccent">#color/MyAppOrangeDark</item>
<!-- AppCompat dialog themes -->
<item name="dialogTheme">#style/Theme.MyApp.Dialog</item>
<item name="alertDialogTheme">#style/Theme.MyApp.Dialog.Alert</item>
///// Tried this with a custom style but that just f*cked up my tabs...
<item name="actionBarTabStyle">#style/CustomActionBarTabs</item>
</style>
<!-- Alert and dialog styles -->
<style name="Theme.MyApp.Dialog" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.Dialog">
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/MyAppOrange</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#color/MyAppOrangeDark</item>
<item name="colorAccent">#color/MyAppOrangeDark</item>
</style>
<style name="Theme.MyApp.Dialog.Alert" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.Dialog.Alert">
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/MyAppOrange</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#color/MyAppOrangeDark</item>
<item name="colorAccent">#color/MyAppOrangeDark</item>
</style>
</resources>
Djangow, you need to define a new style that with the text color as the specific color you want and then set that style in the app theme you want to use. See this link for the exact coding needed.
UPDATE: Djangow, I apologize. I looked into it and found that you have to add this line <item name="android:actionMenuTextColor">#color/your_color</item> to the main App theme. I found the answer here. Hope that helps
I'm trying to change the height of my action bar to give it a more Material feel, but whatever I try never seems to work. Currently I have this:
<!-- Main Theme -->
<style name="WPTheme" parent="Theme.Sherlock">
<item name="actionBarStyle">#style/WPTheme.ActionBarStyle</item>
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/WPTheme.ActionBarStyle</item>
<item name="android:actionBarWidgetTheme">#style/CustomActionOverflowDropDownText</item>
<item name="actionBarWidgetTheme">#style/CustomActionOverflowDropDownText</item>
<item name="android:textColor">#android:color/white</item>
<item name="android:actionOverflowButtonStyle">#style/MyOverflowButton</item>
<item name="textColorPrimaryInverse">#android:color/white</item>
<item name="android:windowBackground">#drawable/black</item>
</style>
<!-- Action Bar Theme -->
<style name="WPTheme.ActionBarStyle" parent="Widget.Sherlock.ActionBar">
<item name="background">#drawable/ic_bar_top</item>
<item name="android:background">#drawable/ic_bar_top</item>
<item name="actionBarSize">56dip</item>
<item name="android:actionBarSize">56dip</item>
<item name="actionOverflowButtonStyle">#style/Widget.Sherlock.ActionButton.Overflow</item>
<item name="dropDownListViewStyle">#style/Widget.Sherlock.Light.ListView.DropDown</item>
</style>
Is there any other solutions out there? Or am I just making some bone-head error here that I'm not picking up on? Thanks!
Changing of height of actionbarsherlock is not the solution.
Use Translucent system bars
You can now make the system bars partially translucent with new themes,
Check this project https://github.com/jgilfelt/SystemBarTint
If you're creating a custom theme, set one of these themes as the parent theme or include the windowTranslucentNavigation and windowTranslucentStatus style properties in your theme.
Hope this helps get you started.
Move <item name="actionBarSize">56dip</item> and <item name="android:actionBarSize">56dip</item> to your main theme.
Also, if you'd like, you can check out my blog post on achieving a material style action bar on older android versions here. Though I haven't written it to be used with ActionBarSherlock, with some slight modifications, you should be able to get the same thing working.
I'm using ActionBarSherlock for an Android app I'm making, and am displaying an image on one of my screens. On this screen, I want the actionbar to go away and come back as the user presses on the screen without the image being stretched. This part I have working, but to do so I created the following style and applied it to that screen. . .
<style name="DarkActionBar.ActionBarOverlay" parent="#style/Theme.Sherlock">
<item name="android:windowActionBarOverlay">true</item>
<item name="windowActionBarOverlay">true</item>
</style>
The problem is, now my action bar is transparent and I can't figure out why. If I change the parent of my style to Theme.Sherlock.Light.DarkActionBar, it is no longer transparent but doesn't look the same as Theme.Sherlock, so it will be inconsistent with the rest of my app.
I've also tried the following. . .
<style name="MyActionBar" parent="#style/Theme.Sherlock.Light.DarkActionBar">
<item name="android:background">#color/black</item>
<item name="background">#color/black</item>
</style>
<style name="DarkActionBar.ActionBarOverlay" parent="#style/Theme.Sherlock">
<item name="android:windowActionBarOverlay">true</item>
<item name="windowActionBarOverlay">true</item>
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/MyActionBar</item>
</style>
Can anyone tell me why the windowActionBarOverlay items are making my actionbar transparent, and what I can do to fix it? Thank you.
As the transparent ActionBar is a feature called "Actionbar Overlay", I think the problem is inside this line:
<item name="windowActionBarOverlay">true</item>
You may need to set it to false.
Please have a read of the following paragraph:
To enable overlay mode for the action bar, you need to create a custom
theme that extends an existing action bar theme and set the
android:windowActionBarOverlay property to true
Also please have a look at Overlaying the Actionbar on Android Developers
I am the using the ActionBarSherlock. I have the displayOption "homeAsUp" in my style.xml file. Now this shows a black arrow next to the title of the Activity. Since my theme is White on a blue blackground, i want to change the color of the black arrow, or maybe use a whole new icon resource in its place. How can i do this ?
Kind Regards.
Further to Eric's answer - I wasted a lot of time getting this right.
Remember that these items must go in the parent application theme, inheriting from Theme.Sherlock or similar.
<!-- CUSTOM APP THEME -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.Sherlock">
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/AppTheme.ActionBarStyle</item>
<item name="actionBarStyle">#style/AppTheme.ActionBarStyle</item>
<item name="android:homeAsUpIndicator">#drawable/action_bar_ic_ab_back_holo_dark</item>
<item name="homeAsUpIndicator">#drawable/action_bar_ic_ab_back_holo_dark</item>
</style>
Do not put them in the custom Action Bar theme inheriting from Widget.Sherlock.ActionBar.
<!-- ACTION BAR THEME -->
<style name="AppTheme.ActionBarStyle" parent="Widget.Sherlock.ActionBar">
<item name="android:icon">#drawable/action_bar_logo</item>
<item name="icon">#drawable/action_bar_logo</item>
<item name="android:displayOptions">showHome</item>
<item name="displayOptions">showHome</item>
</style>
Be careful when you style ActionBarSherlock !
Here is an extract from the web site (ActionBarSherlock Theming):
Due to limitations in Android's theming system any theme customizations must be declared in two attributes. The normal android-prefixed attributes apply the theme to the native action bar and the unprefixed attributes are for the custom implementation. Since both theming APIs are exactly the same you need only reference your customizations twice rather than having to implement them twice.
So in your case you MUST define two item:
<item name="android:homeAsUpIndicator">#drawable/icon</item>
and
<item name="homeAsUpIndicator">#drawable/icon</item>
Then you are sure that ALL your users will have the same L&F
In my application I am using my own theme based on the Theme.Holo.Light
However I have customised the actionBarStyle, setting the background drawable to a blue gradient to fit with my app's style.
However, with the Halo light theme, the action bar text is dark, & the default icons, such as the Up Nav arrow and the menu icon are dark, these don't go on my blue gradient.
As you can see from my XML below, I have managed to correct the title text colour but I can't find the attribute I need to override for the icons.
How can I change tell the theme to effectively use the icons on the ActionBar from Theme.Halo
instead of those Theme.Halo.Light but making the rest of my application remain using Theme.Halo.Light
Here's my current XML
<style name="MyLightTheme" parent="android:Theme.Holo.Light">
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/MyActionBar</item>
</style>
<style name="MyActionBar" parent="android:style/Widget.Holo.ActionBar">
<item name="android:background">#drawable/blue_gradient_light</item>
<item name="android:titleTextStyle">#style/Theme.ActionBar.TitleTextStyle</item>
</style>
<style name="Theme.ActionBar.TitleTextStyle" parent="android:style/TextAppearance.Holo.Widget.ActionBar.Title">
<item name="android:textColor">#color/solid_white</item>
</style>
Thanks for your help
Use Theme.Holo.Light.DarkActionBar as your base if you want to do this. It will take care of these details.