I have this code in my Activity:
Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
setTitle("My title");
In styles.xml, I have this:
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
<item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
<item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
//more stuff
</style>
<style name="Toolbar" parent="Theme.AppCompat">
<item name="android:textAppearance">#style/Toolbar.Text</item>
</style>
<style name="Toolbar.Text">
<item name="android:textColor">#android:color/white</item>
</style>
and the Toolbar layout:
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
app:layout_collapseMode="pin"
app:popupTheme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light"
app:theme="#style/Toolbar" />
I want the toolbar's text to be white, but it is black. I have tried lot of things but I really can't change it.
Whatever it is, The issue is come from this line :
<style name="Toolbar" parent="Theme.AppCompat">
And this: app:theme="#style/Toolbar" (You've used app instead of android, Be careful about that)
And you don't really need to do that.
Just use this line for the Toolbar:
android:theme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar"
So:
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:theme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar"
app:layout_scrollFlags="scroll|enterAlways"
app:popupTheme="#style/AppTheme" />
Then you should see the white text and etc
As you can see, I've set the app:popupTheme to AppTheme which the parameter is :
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
After adding that line to the Toolbar, Now you can remove these:
<style name="Toolbar" parent="Theme.AppCompat">
<item name="android:textAppearance">#style/Toolbar.Text</item>
</style>
<style name="Toolbar.Text">
<item name="android:textColor">#android:color/white</item>
</style>
Then the only thing you should do is setting the parent for app:popupTheme to this :
Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar
Which it can be your Activity style parent.
That's it :)
Use the editor for this. Go to tools->android->theme editor. There you can find the option for changing the colors.
you may be using SDK less than 23 you can try this
In xml :-
android:titleTextColor="#color/colorPrimary"
In fragment
toolbar.setTitleTextColor(Color.RED);
I have an app that uses a custom Toolbar style. Previously, it applied the theme correctly, but after a recent update of Android Studio, it has stopped working correctly.
The theme.xml is defined like so:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<style name="OurTheme.Base" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/MyActionBar</item>
<item name="android:buttonStyle">#style/ButtonAppTheme</item>
<item name="android:imageButtonStyle">#style/ImageButtonAppTheme</item>
<item name="android:listSeparatorTextViewStyle">#style/BlueListSeparatorTextViewStyle</item>
<item name="drawerArrowStyle">#style/DrawerArrowStyle</item>
<!-- colorPrimary is used for the default action bar background -->
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/action_bar_color</item>
<!-- colorPrimaryDark is used for the status bar -->
<!--<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#color/my_awesome_darker_color</item>-->
<!-- colorAccent is used as the default value for colorControlActivated
which is used to tint widgets -->
<item name="colorAccent">#color/btn_accent_color</item>
</style>
<!-- Application theme. -->
<style name="OurTheme" parent="OurTheme.Base">
<!-- All customizations that are NOT specific to a particular API-level can go here. -->
<item name="android:listSeparatorTextViewStyle">#style/BlueListSeparatorTextViewStyle</item>
<item name="drawerArrowStyle">#style/DrawerArrowStyle</item>
</style>
</resources>
Our styles.xml contains:
<!-- ActionBar styles ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.ActionBar -->
<style name="MyActionBar" parent="Widget.AppCompat.ActionBar">
<item name="android:titleTextStyle">#style/MyActionBarTitleText</item>
</style>
<!-- ActionBar title text -->
<style name="MyActionBarTitleText" parent="TextAppearance.AppCompat.Widget.ActionBar.Title">
<item name="android:textColor">#color/actionbar_text</item>
</style>
actionbar_text is defined in our colors.xml:
<color name="actionbar_text">#ffffffff</color>
Finally, our custom toolbar layout:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
app:theme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark" />
Previously, this worked and our app had white text in its custom toolbar. It now defaults to black everywhere in the app and the only method I have found that can change the color of the toolbar title text (other than doing it in code) is to change the toolbar layout to this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:id="#+id/toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
app:titleTextAppearance="#style/MyActionBarTitleText"
app:theme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark" />
Note that now I am specifically telling the actionbar to use MyActionBarTitleText style.
I have also tried to specifically tell it to use the custom theme here as well, by changing the "app:theme" to:
app:theme="#style/MyActionBar"
but this hasn't helped.
I'm afraid I'm at a loss. I know the base theme works as I can change the background colour, but using the actionBarStyle item simply refuses to work.
This has also affected text layouts and justifications to some of our custom button layouts as well and I can't figure out why it has stopped working. Does anyone have any suggestions?
It's very late but answering it.
Create a custom theme for your toolbar and set android:background
<style name="ToolbarStyle" parent="Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar">
<item name="android:background">#color/blue</item> // change your color here and add other attributes
</style>
Now apply this theme to your toolbar in XML like:
style="#style/ToolbarStyle"
I am trying to implement a Light Theme of AppCompat with a dark toolbar (action bar), however when adding the toolbar dynamically or using <include /> the text fails to display in the correct color (black instead of white). The default action bar is styled correctly, but when I add the toolbar it is not.
Here is my code:
toolbar.xml
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:id="#+id/toolbar"
app:theme="#style/AppTheme"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
app:navigationContentDescription="#string/abc_action_bar_up_description"
android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
app:navigationIcon="?attr/homeAsUpIndicator"
app:title="#string/action_settings"
/>
styles.xml
<resources>
<!-- Base application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
<!-- Customize your theme here. -->
<item name="colorPrimary">#ff299725</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#ff1d691b</item>
<item name="colorAccent">#ff5fb10b</item>
</style>
</resources>
However I get this in preview and live environment:
I have tried different versions of AppCompat (v.22.1, v.22.2, v.21.0.3) all replicate the issue, I have tried adding extra styles for textColor and all that happens is that it styles everything white.
Any help SO legends?
In your toolbar.xml, remove the app:theme attribute and use this instead:
android:theme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar"
Also, depending on how you're implementing toolbar, you may want to change your base theme (in styles.xml) to use the NoActionBar variant, like so:
<!-- Base application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
styles.xml
<style name="Toolbar" parent="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.ActionBar">
<item name="android:textColorPrimary">#color/xxx</item>
<item name="android:background">#color/xxx</item>
<item name="drawerArrowStyle">#style/DrawerArrowStyle</item>
</style>
<style name="DrawerArrowStyle" parent="#style/Widget.AppCompat.DrawerArrowToggle">
<item name="color">#color/xxx</item>
<item name="gapBetweenBars">4dp</item>
</style>
my_toolbar.xml
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:id="#+id/toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
app:popupTheme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light"
app:theme="#style/Toolbar"
/>
I'm trying to change the background and text colors for my ActionMode. I'm using API 11 and AppCompat.
I've tried it with the following style.xml, but the ActionMode background is always white and the text color is black.
I want to change text color to white and background color to blue.
How can I solve this?
Here is my style.xml
<resources>
<!-- Base application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
<!-- ActionMode -->
<item name="actionModeStyle">#style/MyActionModeStyle</item>
</style>
<!-- Setup the style of the ActionMode here -->
<style name="MyActionModeStyle" parent="#style/Widget.AppCompat.ActionMode">
<item name="android:background">#color/blue</item>
<item name="background">#color/blue</item>
<item name="android:titleTextStyle">#style/MyActionModeTitle</item>
<item name="titleTextStyle">#style/MyActionModeTitle</item>
</style>
<!-- Setup the text style of the ActionMode here -->
<style name="MyActionModeTitle" parent="#style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Widget.ActionMode.Title">
<item name="android:textColor">#ffffff</item>
</style>
</resources>
In my Activity I'm using android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity but I use toolbar:
Here is my settings_activity_toolbar.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:id="#+id/toolbar"
app:theme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
app:navigationContentDescription="#string/abc_action_bar_up_description"
android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
app:navigationIcon="?attr/homeAsUpIndicator"
app:title="#string/action_settings" />
Try to set android:actionModeStyle too:
<item name="android:actionModeStyle">#style/MyActionModeStyle</item>
Ok, I managed it by replacing the HomeAsUpIndicator programatically with an done button. Thats all I wanted...
I have a toolbar that I use, and set title with:
((ActionBarActivity)getActivity()).getSupportActionBar().setTitle("Home");
Is there a way to change the color from black to white?
I tried making its own theme and setting it in the xml like this, but no dice:
<resources>
<!-- Base application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme2" parent="Theme.AppCompat">
<item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
<item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/primary</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#color/primary_dark</item>
<item name="colorAccent">#color/accent</item>
<item name="android:textColorPrimary">#color/primary_text</item>
<item name="android:textColorSecondary">#color/secondary_text</item>
</style>
<style name="Widget.MyApp.ActionBar" parent="Widget.AppCompat.ActionBar">
<item name="android:background">#color/primary</item>
<item name="theme">#style/ThemeOverlay.MyApp.ActionBar</item>
<item name="popupTheme">#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light</item>
</style>
<style name="ThemeOverlay.MyApp.ActionBar" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.ActionBar">
<item name="android:textColorPrimary">#FFFFFF</item>
</style>
</resources>
XML:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#e5e5e5"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/toolbar"
android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:background="#color/primary"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
style="#style/Widget.MyApp.ActionBar">
<Spinner
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/statsSpin"
android:spinnerMode="dropdown"
android:textColor="#FFFFFF"/>
</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>
<ListView
android:id="#+id/yourStats"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:dividerHeight="0px"
android:divider="#null"
>
</ListView>
</LinearLayout>
Programatically:
toolbar.setTitleTextColor(0xFFFFFFFF);
Per the Theme vs Style blog post by the creator of AppCompat and the post on version 21 of AppCompat, a DarkActionBar toolbar (i.e., a Toolbar with a dark background and light text), can be accomplished by adding android:theme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar" to your Toolbar's XML:
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/toolbar"
android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:background="#color/primary"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:theme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar"
app:popupTheme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light">
<Spinner
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/statsSpin"
android:spinnerMode="dropdown"/>
</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>
This will change text color and the default colors to many attributes (such as your Spinner to light text as is needed for the dark background.
Create a new style in application base theme
<style name="custom_toolbar" parent="#style/Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar">
<item name="titleTextColor">#replace with color</item>
</style>
and use the style for the toolbar
<item name="toolbarStyle">#style/custom_toolbar</item>
I know there are a lot of answers above hope, it will help someone who doesn't understand above answers.
Android has view called Toolbar.This view has title which always takes as default color from color.xml resources which item name is accent.You can change your toolbar color in two way.
Via xml which I recommend you to do that, here below you can see example
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
app:titleTextColor="#color/White" />Here you can change it.Remember APP attribute not ANDROID
Via programmatically within activity or fragment.
Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar)findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
toolbar.setTitleTextColor(ContextCompat.getColor(this, R.color.colorAccent));
If you want to change only title text color than,
Try this one..
getSupportActionBar().setTitle(Html.fromHtml("<font color='#746E66'>"+titleText+"</font>"));
it works..!!
You can define custom tool bar style by extending Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar and setting titleTextAppearance and subtitleTextAppearance properties. This way you can change color and text size of title and subtitle of toolbar for reference
http://www.zoftino.com/android-toolbar-tutorial .
<style name="MyAppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/colorPrimary</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
<item name="toolbarStyle">#style/MyToolBarStyle</item>
</style>
<style name="MyToolBarStyle" parent="Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar">
<item name="titleTextAppearance">#style/MyTitleTextAppearance</item>
<item name="subtitleTextAppearance">#style/MySubTitleTextAppearance</item>
</style>
<style name="MyTitleTextAppearance" parent="TextAppearance.Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar.Title">
<item name="android:textSize">25dp</item>
<item name="android:textColor">#ff3d00</item>
</style>
<style name="MySubTitleTextAppearance" parent="TextAppearance.Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar.Subtitle">
<item name="android:textSize">20dp</item>
<item name="android:textColor">#1976d2</item>
</style>
It can be changed programatically as you can above answer. But reduce code complexity, you should change it via style.xml
First of all create attrs.xml to under res/values folder
than add two reference to attrs.xml folder like below
attrs.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<attr name="toolbar_theme" format="reference" />
<attr name="toolbar_theme_title" format="reference" />
</resources>
After defination of reference than create a style in style.xml like below
style.xml
<style name="CustomTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
<item name="colorPrimary">#00A4E4</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#AB0634</item>
<item name="colorAccent">#AB0634</item>
<item name="toolbar_theme">#style/CustomTheme.Toolbar</item>
<item name="toolbar_theme_title">#style/CustomTheme.Toolbar.Title</item>
<item name="android:textColorPrimary">#color/black</item>
<item name="android:textColorSecondary">#android:color/black</item>
<item name="windowActionModeOverlay">true</item>
</style>
<style name="CustomTheme.Toolbar" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.ActionBar">
<!-- if you have a navigationdrawer you change it color also -->
<item name="colorControlNormal">#AB0634</item>
</style>
<style name="CustomTheme.Toolbar.Title" parent="TextAppearance.Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar.Title">
<!-- Set title size -->
<item name="android:textSize">#dimen/abc_text_size_title_material_toolbar</item>
<!-- Set title color -->
<item name="android:textColor">#AB0634</item>
</style>
Now we have created toolbar_theme and toolbar_theme_title reference in attrs.xml than give these references to our custom theme in style.xml
Finally we give this reference to toolbar like below
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
android:theme="?attr/toolbar_theme"
app:titleTextAppearance="?attr/toolbar_theme_title"
android:elevation="4dp"
app:popupTheme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light" />
Thats it. You can give this theme programatically or set in androidmanifest.xml like below.
programmatically
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setTheme(R.style.CustomTheme); // (for Custom theme)
this.setContentView(R.layout.myactivity);
androidmanifest.xml
<application
android:theme="#style/CustomTheme">
or
<activity
android:theme="#style/CustomTheme">
Here I fixed it using the code below and it works on every API level :
<style name="AppTheme" parent="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>
<item name="toolbarStyle">#style/CustomToolBarStyle</item>
</style>
<style name="CustomToolBarStyle" parent="#style/Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar">
<item name="titleTextColor">#color/title_text_color</item>
</style>
To extend on tachyonflux, to set color with a HEX
toolbar.setTitleTextColor(Color.parseColor("#519c3f"));
toolbar.setTitleTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.black));
(toolbar is the name you've give your toolbar in your acitivyt class)
(In your colors values xml set your desired colors and reference it to the color name you chose, as seen here I keep some of my main colors normal names)
Took me a while to figure this out myself but this is the only way I can get it to work, the ThemEditor should allow this but it is what it is.
In xml:
app:titleTextColor="#color/White" as
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/tb_top"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
app:theme="#style/AppTheme.DarkToolbar"
app:titleTextColor="#color/White" />
Use this code
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/toolbar"
app:titleTextColor="#color/colorAccent"
app:theme="#style/ToolbarColoredBackArrow"
app:subtitleTextColor="#color/colorAccent"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
app:popupTheme="#style/AppTheme.PopupOverlay" />
You can change the theme of your action bar using the attribute actionBarTheme as follow. Although it has been added in API level 21 it seems to be compatible with older APIs.
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">
<item name="actionBarTheme">#style/AppTheme.AppBarOverlay</item>
</style>
In Kotlin, using Sandip's answer:
with(getSupportActionBar()) {
val titleText: String = title.toString()
setTitle(Html.fromHtml("<font color='#746E66'>" + titleText + "</font>"))
}
You can change it programmatically by using following code.
toolbar.setTitleTextColor(android.graphics.Color.WHITE);
Inside of android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar, add this line:
local:titleTextColor="#color/the_color_you_want"
I found the rather simple solution.
It can be done by the following ways (by XML or programmatically).
First (XML solution):
<androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
app:layout_scrollFlags="scroll|enterAlways"
app:popupTheme="#style/Theme.AppCompat.NoActionBar"
app:titleTextColor="#color/white" />
Second (programmatically):
val toolbar = findViewById<Toolbar>(R.id.toolbar)
toolbar.setTitleTextColor(Color.WHITE)
The second solution requires min SDK version over 21, for your note.