I am using Toolbar class from in every Activity of my application.
I have two versions of Toolbar layout, but they differ only in TextView and EditText, wrapped in RelativeLayout.
Here is code of toolbar.xml:
<?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="?android:attr/actionBarSize"
android:theme="#style/AppTheme.Toolbar"
android:popupTheme="#style/AppTheme.Toolbar.LightPopup"/>
I played a lot with android:theme and android:popupTheme attributes, but often get the same result (shown below) and never what I needed.
In AndroidManifest.xml all activities use android:theme="#style/AppTheme"
Finally, my v21\styles.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/primary</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#color/primary_dark</item>
<item name="colorAccent">#color/accent</item>
</style>
<style name="AppTheme.Toolbar" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar">
<item name="android:background">?android:attr/colorPrimary</item>
</style>
<style name="AppTheme.Toolbar.LightPopup"parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light">
<item name="android:background">#color/material_grey_200</item>
</style>
<style name="AppTheme.TextAppearance.ExtraLarge" parent="TextAppearance.AppCompat.Large">
<item name="android:textSize">30sp</item>
</style>
Here is what I get most of the time:
Note blue background of text.
In contrast, how it looks in Youtube app (and in many other apps, not only from Google)
I want at least to make background of hints consistent (preferably grey).
If possible, I want also to control color of popup Toolbar menu.
I tried several solutions in SO (especially playing with styles) and on my own, but nothing helped.
If you have any idea how to fix it, please share it with me.
Thanks in advance.
UPD: As no one except me answered to the question, I accept my answer as best because it is really helped me. Hovewer, if you have some additions and clarifications, feel free to share. For example, I still don't know why changing android:theme to style fixed everything.
I finally came up with solution by myself.
Turns out it takes two steps to fix my Toolbar layout.
1) In Toolbar xml layout:
Delete last attribute
Replace android:theme by style
This results in:
<?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="?android:attr/actionBarSize"
style="#style/AppTheme.Toolbar"/>
2) In styles.xml file, add next items to Toolbar style:
<item name="popupTheme">#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light</item> (this will set popup just like in Youtube app above)
<item name="theme">#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar</item> (this will set title and other toolbar elements white)
Also remove Toolbar Popup style.
This result in:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/primary</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#color/primary_dark</item>
<item name="colorAccent">#color/accent</item>
</style>
<style name="AppTheme.Toolbar" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar">
<item name="android:background">?android:attr/colorPrimary</item>
<item name="popupTheme">#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light</item>
<item name="theme">#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar</item>
</style>
<style name="AppTheme.TextAppearance.ExtraLarge" parent="TextAppearance.AppCompat.Large">
<item name="android:textSize">30sp</item>
</style>
</resources>
I hope this will help someone as it helped me.
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I've been struggling with this all day - I've been on Stack Overflow for hours trying various solutions to no avail.
The application I'm building uses the light material theme, yet the text on the toolbar refuses to change from anything but black. The toolbar itself colors perfectly.
styles.xml:
<resources>
<style name="AppTheme" parent="AppTheme.Base">
</style>
<style name="AppTheme.Base" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
<item name="android:colorPrimary">#color/primary</item>
<item name="android:colorPrimaryDark">#color/primary_dark</item>
<item name="android:colorAccent">#color/accent</item>
</style>
<style name="Toolbar" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark">
<item name="android:background">#color/primary</item>
<item name="android:textColor">#color/white</item>
<item name="android:titleTextColor">#color/white</item>
<item name="android:textColorPrimary">#color/white</item>
<item name="android:color">#color/white</item>
<item name="android:elevation">#dimen/toolbar_elevation</item>
</style>
</resources>
in the activity layout file:
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/main_toolbar"
style="#style/Toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:title="#string/app_name" />
Hoping someone can help solve this issue.
Add this to your Toolbar:
android:theme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar"
Or perhaps, Adding this:
ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar instead of ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark you forgot to add ActionBar at the end i guess.
And of course, If you have AppBarLayout, Try to add this line in your AppBarLayout too:
android:theme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar"
Texts will be white.
Otherwise, This answer will help:
Option 1) The quick and easy way (Toolbar only)
Since appcompat-v7-r23 you can use the following attributes directly
on your Toolbar or its style:
app:titleTextColor="#color/primary_text"
app:subtitleTextColor="#color/secondary_text"
I am using Toolbar for the purpose of material design in my application. Everything working fine but except when it comes to change the menu item text color I am completely stuck up with the solution. I am also posting screenshot of the text that should be taken and code I am using in my application for your reference. I tried several alternate methods like assigning as follows
<item name="android:actionMenuTextColor">#color/white</item>
<item name="android:textColor">#000</item>
But known of the above solutions works for me.
Requirement screenshot:
Need to change SKIP menu item from black to white color.
styles.xml
<style name="ToolBarTheme" parent="#style/Theme.AppCompat.Light">
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/blue</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#color/blue</item>
<item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
<item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
<item name="drawerArrowStyle">#style/DrawerArrowStyle</item>
<item name="android:actionMenuTextColor">#color/white</item>
<item name="android:textColor">#000</item>
</style>
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:layout_scrollFlags="scroll|enterAlways"
android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"/>
manifests
<activity
android:name=".activity.HomeActivity"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:screenOrientation="portrait"
android:configChanges="keyboard|screenLayout|orientation"
android:theme="#style/ToolBarTheme"></activity>
I really dont know where I am committing mistake. Please help me. Thanks in advance
Change this
<item name="android:actionMenuTextColor">#color/white</item>
to
<item name="actionMenuTextColor">#color/white</item>
And apply the theme to the toolbar:
android:theme="#style/ToolBarTheme"
You style your widgets and provide themes for your activity.
I have a "light"-themed application with:
<style name="Theme.MyTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/primary</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#color/primary_dark</item>
<item name="colorAccent">#color/accent</item>
<!-- etc. -->
</style>
I want my Toolbars to be dark themed, so I have setup the following style, just as suggested by Chris Banes:
<style name="Theme.MyTheme.Toolbar" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar">
<!-- stuff -->
</style>
Then, by adding android:theme="#style/Theme.ByodTheme.Toolbar" to my android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar, everything works as expected (even though the Android Studio preview doesn't show white colors for the title, it works on devices):
Now, instead of specifying android:theme for every Toolbar in my application, I'd like to specify the style in my main theme and forget about it. I have tried the toolbarStyle property, but it looks like it doesn't work as intended, since it completely messes up standard properties:
I have also made other attempts by making the Toolbar theme inherit from Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar, and by changing titleTextAppearance and subtitleTextAppearance, but then it looks impossible to change the overflow icon color (yes, I have tried to set actionOverflowButtonStyle and inherit that style from Widget.AppCompat.ActionButton.Overflow, with no success in changing the overflow icon color).
Is there a way to specify, from a single point, the main theme for every toolbar in my application?
You can use a custom attribute for this -- basically just set your toolbars to use a custom value that you'll define in the theme.
<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="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
android:theme="?attr/toolbar_theme"
/>
The important part there is just android:theme="?attr/toolbar_theme" which references a custom attribute from the current theme.
You will need to declare this attribute somewhere, like so:
<resources>
<attr name="toolbar_theme" format="reference" />
</resources>
Then you can define what value you want the toolbar to use by assigning a value to toolbar_theme in your theme. For example, to make it use Theme.MyTheme.Toolbar you could define it like so:
<style name="Theme.MyTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/primary</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#color/primary_dark</item>
<item name="colorAccent">#color/accent</item>
<!-- etc. -->
<item name="toolbar_theme">#style/Theme.MyTheme.Toolbar</item>
</style>
The nice thing about using an attribute is that it lets your app have multiple themes, and that single toolbar resource will use whatever value you've set within the theme.
If I understand the question correctly, you want to set your app's theme once and apply all the styling to all the Toolbars in every activity/fragment.
If so, I would recommend this approach:
<style name="MyTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.NoActionBar">
<item name="android:textColorPrimary">#color/MyColorPrimaryText</item>
<item name="android:windowBackground">#color/MyColorWindowBackground</item>
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/MyColorPrimary</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#color/MyColorPrimaryDark</item>
<item name="colorAccent">#color/MyColorAccent</item>
<item name="colorControlNormal">#color/MyColorControlNormal</item>
<item name="colorControlHighlight">#color/MyColorControlHighlight</item>
<item name="toolbarStyle">#style/MyToolbar</item>
<item name="windowActionModeOverlay">true</item>
<item name="actionModeBackground">#color/MyColorPrimaryDark</item>
</style>
<style name="MyToolbar" parent="Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar">
<item name="android:layout_width">match_parent</item>
<item name="android:layout_height">wrap_content</item>
<item name="android:minHeight">#dimen/MyToolbarMinHeight</item>
<item name="android:gravity">center_vertical</item>
<item name="android:background">#color/MyColorPrimary</item>
<item name="android:elevation" tools:ignore="NewApi">10dp</item>
<item name="theme">#style/MyToolbarTheme</item>
</style>
<style name="MyToolbarTheme" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.ActionBar">
<item name="android:textColorPrimary">#color/MyColorPrimaryText</item>
<item name="colorControlNormal">#color/MyToolbarColorControlNormal</item>
<item name="colorControlHighlight">#color/MyToolbarColorControlHighlight</item>
</style>
Then in your manifest:
<application
android:name=".MyApp"
android:theme="#style/MyTheme">
<activity android:name=".MyActivity1"/>
<activity android:name=".MyActivity2"/>
</application>
Then in your activity layout files, include the toolbar with:
style="?attr/toolbarStyle"
So myActivity1.xml layout file would look like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/appBar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
style="?attr/toolbarStyle" />
<!-- ETC. -->
</LinearLayout>
And notice that to change the navigation back button color or the overflow button colors, you can set:
<item name="colorControlNormal">#color/MyColorControlNormal</item>
<item name="colorControlHighlight">#color/MyColorControlHighlight</item>
And:
<item name="android:textColorPrimary">#color/MyColorPrimaryText</item>
Can be used to update the actionbar text color but you'd define it in the Toolbar theme.
Hope this helps.
I'm trying to center the Toolbar text title and I can't. I've already tried to use a theme (didn't work) and Java code (as I'm working with API level 13 I can't use .setTextAligment), I've also tried getSupportActionBar().setDisplayOptions(toolbar.TEXT_ALIGNMENT_CENTER) that didn't work too.
Can you please help me?
styles.xml
<resources>
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
</style>
<style name="AppTheme.Toolbar.Title" parent="Theme.AppCompat.NoActionBar">
<!-- Set proper title size -->
<item name="android:textSize">#dimen/abc_text_size_title_material_toolbar</item>
<item name="android:gravity">center</item>
<item name="android:layout_gravity">center</item>
</style>
</resources>
layout.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="70dp"
android:background="#drawable/toolbar_main"
style="#style/AppTheme.Toolbar.Title">
</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>
I've already tried the solution described here, but it didn't worked for me.
I'm trying to recreate the look of Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar with the new support library Toolbar.
If I choose Theme.AppCompat.Light my toolbar will be light and if I choose Theme.AppCompat it will be dark. (Technically you have to use the .NoActionBar version but as far as I can tell the only difference is
<style name="Theme.AppCompat.NoActionBar">
<item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
<item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
</style>
Now there's no Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar but naively I thought it'd be good enough to just make my own
<style name="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar.NoActionBar">
<item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
<item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
</style>
However with this my toolbars are still Light themed. I've spent hours now trying different combinations of mixing the Dark (base) theme and the Light theme but I just can't find a combination that will let me have light backgrounds on everything but the toolbars.
Is there a way of getting the AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar look with import android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar's?
The recommended way to style the Toolbar for a Light.DarkActionBar clone would be to use Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionbar as parent/app theme and add the following attributes to the style to hide the default ActionBar:
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
<item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
<item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
</style>
Then use the following as your Toolbar:
<android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:theme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar">
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
app:popupTheme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light" />
</android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>
For further modifications, you would create styles extending ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar and ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light replacing the ones within AppBarLayout->android:theme and Toolbar->app:popupTheme. Also note that this will pick up your ?attr/colorPrimary if you have set it in your main style so you might get a different background color.
You will find a good example of this is in the current project template with an Empty Activity of Android Studio (1.4+).
Edit: After updating to appcompat-v7:22.1.1 and using AppCompatActivity instead of ActionBarActivity my styles.xml looks like:
<style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/colorPrimary</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
<item name="colorAccent">#color/colorAccent</item>
<item name="theme">#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar</item>
</style>
Note: This means I am using a Toolbar provided by the framework (NOT included in an XML file).
This worked for me:
styles.xml file:
<style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/colorPrimary</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
<item name="colorAccent">#color/colorAccent</item>
<item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
<item name="theme">#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar</item>
</style>
Update: A quote from Gabriele Mariotti's blog.
With the new Toolbar you can apply a style and a theme.
They are different!
The style is local to the Toolbar view, for example the background color.
The app:theme is instead global to all ui elements inflated in the Toolbar, for example the color of the title and icons.
Ok after having sunk way to much time into this problem this is the way I managed to get the appearance I was hoping for. I'm making it a separate answer so I can get everything in one place.
It's a combination of factors.
Firstly, don't try to get the toolbars to play nice through just themes. It seems to be impossible.
So apply themes explicitly to your Toolbars like in oRRs answer
layout/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:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
app:theme="#style/Dark.Overlay"
app:popupTheme="#style/Dark.Overlay.LightPopup" />
However this is the magic sauce. In order to actually get the background colors I was hoping for you have to override the background attribute in your Toolbar themes
values/styles.xml:
<!--
I expected android:colorBackground to be what I was looking for but
it seems you have to override android:background
-->
<style name="Dark.Overlay" parent="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar">
<item name="android:background">?attr/colorPrimary</item>
</style>
<style name="Dark.Overlay.LightPopup" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light">
<item name="android:background">#color/material_grey_200</item>
</style>
then just include your toolbar layout in your other layouts
<include android:id="#+id/mytoolbar" layout="#layout/toolbar" />
and you're good to go.
Hope this helps someone else so you don't have to spend as much time on this as I have.
(if anyone can figure out how to make this work using just themes, ie not having to apply the themes explicitly in the layout files I'll gladly support their answer instead)
EDIT:
So apparently posting a more complete answer was a downvote magnet so I'll just accept the imcomplete answer above but leave this answer here in case someone actually needs it.
Feel free to keep downvoting if it makes you happy though.
The cleanest way I found to do this is create a child of 'ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar'. In the example, I set the Toolbar's background color to RED and text's color to BLUE.
<style name="MyToolbar" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar">
<item name="android:background">#FF0000</item>
<item name="android:textColorPrimary">#0000FF</item>
</style>
You can then apply your theme to the toolbar:
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
app:theme="#style/MyToolbar"
android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"/>
To customize tool bar style, first create tool bar custom style inheriting Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar, override properties and then add it to custom app theme as shown below, see http://www.zoftino.com/android-toolbar-tutorial for more information tool bar and styles.
<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="android:background">#80deea</item>
<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">35dp</item>
<item name="android:textColor">#ff3d00</item>
</style>
<style name="MySubTitleTextAppearance" parent="TextAppearance.Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar.Subtitle">
<item name="android:textSize">30dp</item>
<item name="android:textColor">#1976d2</item>
</style>
Yout can try this below.
<style name="MyToolbar" parent="Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar">
<!-- your code here -->
</style>
And the detail elements you can find them in https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v7/appcompat/R.styleable.html#Toolbar
Here are some more:TextAppearance.Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar.Title, TextAppearance.Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar.Subtitle, Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar.Button.Navigation.
Hope this can help you.
Similar to Arnav Rao's, but with a different parent:
<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>
<item name="toolbarStyle">#style/MyToolbar</item>
</style>
<style name="MyToolbar" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar">
<item name="android:background">#ff0000</item>
</style>
With this approach, the appearance of the Toolbar is entirely defined in the app styles, so you don't need to place any styling on each toolbar.