Unable to show title on android actionbar - android

This is my android manifest
<application
android:allowBackup="true"
android:icon="#drawable/app_icon"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:supportsRtl="true"
android:theme="#style/AppTheme"
>
<activity
android:name=".splash"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:theme="#style/AppTheme" >
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
<activity
android:name=".DrawingActivity"
android:parentActivityName="com.example.kahheng.smartchat.MainActivity"/>
<activity
android:name=".pollActivity"
android:parentActivityName="com.example.kahheng.smartchat.MainActivity"/>
<activity
android:name=".bookmarkActivity"
android:parentActivityName="com.example.kahheng.smartchat.bookmarkActivity"
android:label="Bookmark Page"
/>
<activity
android:name=".ContactListActivity"
/>
<activity
android:name=".MainActivity" />
</application>
This is my style file
<resources>
<style name="AppTheme" parent="android:Theme.Material.Light">
<item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
<item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
<item name="android:windowDrawsSystemBarBackgrounds">true</item>
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/MyActionBarTheme</item>
</style>
<style name="MyActionBarTheme" parent="android:Theme.Material.Light">
<item name="android:background">#255e7c</item>
</style>
<style name="ContactListTheme" parent="android:Theme.Material.Light">
</style>
</resources>
How to make my app name appear on the android:actionBarStyle?
if I apply the the actionbar theme to my activity, the whole screen will change into that colour.
I not sure what is happening.
It is okay when it was default, the word on the actionbar is gone when I apply the style for actionbar.
I have two XML file, activity_main and content_main.xml
How to do manually define title for a actionbar in XML?


<resources>
<style name="AppTheme" parent="android:Theme.Material.Light">
//this 2 line remove actionbar
// <item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
// <item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
<item name="android:windowDrawsSystemBarBackgrounds">true</item>
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/MyActionBarTheme</item>
<style name="MyActionBarTheme" parent="android:Widget.Material.Light.ActionBar">
//<style name="MyActionBarTheme" parent="android:Theme.Material.Light">
<item name="android:background">#255e7c</item>
</style>
<style name="ContactListTheme" parent="android:Theme.Material.Light">
</style>
</resources>

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Setting the ActionBar background colour to other than colorPrimary in XML

I have found similar questions but the answers did not work. I do not want to change the colorPrimary.
The ActionBar is not a ToolBar, so it does not exist in the activity's layout XML. The following did not work, and the bakground was still set to colorPrimary.
<resources>
<!-- Base application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat">
<!-- Customize your theme here. -->
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/MyActionBar</item>
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/colorPrimary</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
<item name="colorAccent">#color/colorAccent</item>
<item name="android:statusBarColor">#color/colorBlack</item>
<item name="android:colorBackground">#color/colorBlack</item>
</style>
<style name="MyActionBar" parent="#android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar.Solid.Inverse">
<item name="android:backgroundStacked">#color/colorBlack</item>
<item name="android:backgroundSplit">#color/colorBlack</item>
<item name="android:background">#color/colorBlack</item>
</style>
</resources>
<application
android:allowBackup="true"
android:icon="#mipmap/ic_launcher"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:roundIcon="#mipmap/ic_launcher_round"
android:supportsRtl="true"
android:theme="#style/AppTheme">
<activity android:name=".MainActivity">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN"/>
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"/>
</intent-filter>
</activity>
</application>

Programmatically you can do
getSupportActionBar().setBackgroundDrawable(new ColorDrawable(Color.parseColor("#YOUR_COLOR")));

White StatusBar on SplashScreen

I've done research on this but can come to no answer why my statusbar is white in my Splashscreen. It works great in my MainActivity, which the theme, according to my Manifest, is also "#style/AppTheme.NoActionBar". Both my splashscreen and mainactivity have the same theme.
I want the statusbar to be colorPrimaryDark.
styles.xml
<!-- Base application theme. -->
<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>
<style name="AppTheme.NoActionBar">
<item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
<item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
</style>
<style name="AppTheme.AppBarOverlay" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar" />
<style name="AppTheme.PopupOverlay" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light" />
<style name="RainImage">
<item name="android:src">#drawable/no_rain</item>
</style>
<style name="BirdImage">
<item name="android:src">#drawable/one_bird</item>
</style>
AndroidManifest.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<application
android:allowBackup="true"
android:icon="#mipmap/ic_launcher"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:supportsRtl="true"
android:theme="#style/AppTheme">
<activity
android:name=".MainActivity"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:theme="#style/AppTheme.NoActionBar">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
<activity
android:name=".SplashScreen"
android:theme="#style/AppTheme.NoActionBar">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
</application>

Just past the following code on styles.xml(v21) file
<style name="AppTheme.NoActionBar">
<item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
<item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
<item name="android:windowDrawsSystemBarBackgrounds">true</item>
<item name="android:statusBarColor">#color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
</style>

colorprimarydark only work for the mainactivity,what should i do with it

this is my manifest
<application
android:allowBackup="true"
android:icon="#mipmap/ic_launcher"
android:supportsRtl="true"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:theme="#style/AppTheme">
<service android:name="com.amap.api.location.APSService" />
<activity
android:name=".MainActivity"
android:label=""/>
<activity
android:name=".QueryActivity"
android:label="" />
<activity
android:name=".LoginActivity">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
<activity
android:name=".RegistActivity" />
<activity
android:name=".TaskListActivity"
android:label="" />
<activity
android:name=".TaskWatcherActivity"
android:label="" />
<activity
android:name=".DetailsActivity"
android:label="" />
</application>
i have set the style in style:
<resources>
<!-- Base application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
<!-- Customize your theme here. -->
<item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
<item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/colorPrimary</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
<item name="drawerArrowStyle">#style/DrawerArrowStyle</item>
<item name="colorAccent">#color/colorAccent</item>
<item name="colorControlNormal">#color/cpb_white</item>
</style>
<style name="DrawerArrowStyle" parent="Widget.AppCompat.DrawerArrowToggle">
<item name="spinBars">true</item>
<item name="color">#android:color/white</item>
</style>
<style name="AppTheme.AppBarOverlay" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar" />
<style name="AppTheme.PopupOverlay" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light" />
&style-v21:
<resources>
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
<item name="android:fitsSystemWindows">true</item>
<item name="android:windowTranslucentNavigation">true</item>
<item name="android:navigationBarColor">#android:color/transparent</item>
<item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
<item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
<item name="android:windowDrawsSystemBarBackgrounds">true</item>
<item name="android:statusBarColor">#android:color/transparent</item>
<item name="android:textSize">15sp</item>
<item name="android:colorControlNormal">#color/cpb_white</item>
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/colorPrimary</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
<item name="drawerArrowStyle">#style/DrawerArrowStyle</item>
</style>
but only the mainactivity's status bar is in colorprimarydark,other activities' statusbar is in the color of their layout's background. so how can i make colorprimarydark work for every activity's status bar

Very easy and useful library for Tint Color use this library in every Activity set you status color.

Try to Use android:theme="#style/AppTheme" in each and every activity.
I think you solve your problem.

finally, i used the library for Tint Color to solve the problem, p.s.thasks to Jhaman Das.
And i found that the attr of statusBarColor would cover the effect of colorpromarydark, it is the drawlayout that can have the ideal effect. willing to get further discussion on this problem.

Transparent statusbar is not tinted properly

I have a problem with StatusBar, I've managed to implement styles for it like this:
<resources>
<style name="AppTheme1" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#59000000</item>
<item name="android:statusBarColor">#59000000</item>
<item name="colorAccent">#color/blueAppBar</item>
<item name="android:windowTranslucentStatus">true</item>
</style>
</resources>
But activity doesn't work with it properly and goes like this:
As you see status bar is not tinted and goes just blue, like background. What should I do to make it tinted?

You shouldn't use android:windowTranslucentStatus and android:statusBarColor together.
You should use android:windowTranslucentStatus in values-v19 and android:statusBarColor in values-v21.
This is a sample configuration:
values/styles.xml
<resources>
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#59000000</item>
<item name="colorAccent">#color/blueAppBar</item>
</style>
<style name="AppTheme.NoActionBar">
</style>
</resources>
values-v19/styles.xml
<resources>
<style name="AppTheme.NoActionBar">
<item name="android:windowTranslucentStatus">true</item>
</style>
</resources>
values-v21/styles.xml
<resources>
<style name="AppTheme.NoActionBar">
<item name="android:statusBarColor">#59000000</item>
</style>
</resources>
AndroidManifest.xml
<application
android:allowBackup="true"
android:icon="#mipmap/ic_launcher"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:supportsRtl="true"
android:theme="#style/AppTheme" >
<activity
android:name=".MainActivity"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:theme="#style/AppTheme.NoActionBar" >
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
</application>

support actionbar menu styling

How does one style the Android ActionBar overflow menu (background color, text color, custom drawables etc.)?
I've been trying to do this with the following styles, but nothing seems to be taking any effect. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
<resources>
<!-- Base application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
<!-- Customize your theme here. -->
<item name="android:actionBarWidgetTheme">#style/MyActionBar</item>
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/MyActionBar</item>
</style>
<style name="MyActionBar" parent="Widget.AppCompat.Light.ActionBar.Solid.Inverse">
<item name="android:textColor">#android:color/holo_blue_light</item>
<item name="android:actionBarItemBackground">#android:color/holo_green_light</item>
<item name="android:actionMenuTextColor">#android:color/holo_green_dark</item>
</style>
</resources>
TIA!
BTW minSdk set to 14
AndroidManifest is
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="com.example.app1.app1">
<application android:allowBackup="true"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_launcher"
android:theme="#style/AppTheme">
<activity android:name=".MainActivity">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
</application>
</manifest>

Do you call it on AndroidManifest.xml file?
Example in my style.xml
<resources xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<!-- the theme applied to the application or activity -->
<style name="CustomActionBarTheme" parent="#android:style/Theme.Holo.Light.DarkActionBar">
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/MyActionBar</item>
</style>
<!-- ActionBar styles -->
<style name="MyActionBar" parent="#android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar.Solid.Inverse">
<item name="android:background">#color/green_dark</item>
<item name="android:titleTextStyle">#style/MyTheme.ActionBar.TitleTextStyle</item>
</style>
<style name="MyTheme.ActionBar.TitleTextStyle" parent="#android:style/TextAppearance">
<item name="android:textColor">#color/white</item>
<item name="android:textStyle">bold</item>
</style>
and in menifestfile
<application
android:allowBackup="true"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_launcher1"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:theme="#style/CustomActionBarTheme" >
<activity.....
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