I have been debugging this for quite sometime and cannot seem to find the solution. My problem is that my statusbar is white even when I have my view with the xml line
android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
A picture of the problem can be found below. Anyway, I have tried multiple solutions, but none have worked. Here is the code for my toolbar.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
app:elevation="3dp"
>
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/toolbar"
style="#style/AppTheme.ActionBarStyle"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:background="#color/actionbar_color"/>
</android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>
Here is the code for AppTheme.ActionBarStyle
<style name="AppTheme.ActionBarStyle" parent="Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar">
<item name="android:background">#color/actionbar_color</item>
<item name="popupTheme">#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light</item>
<item name="theme">#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light</item>
</style>
Here is a picture of the problem. What am I missing here? Also note that I did set the colors in the apptheme
<!-- Base application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
<!-- Set AppCompat’s color theming attrs -->
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/primary</item>
<!-- darker variant for the status bar and contextual app bars -->
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#color/primary_dark</item>
<!-- theme UI controls like checkboxes and text fields -->
<item name="colorAccent">#color/accent</item>
</style>
If your phone is pre-Lollipop then you will not be able to achieve it like this.Code you have written is correct and will show correctly on Lollipop devices.
Adding these style settings to your AppTheme may work:
<item name="android:windowDrawsSystemBarBackgrounds">true</item>
<item name="android:statusBarColor">#color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
Note that this can work only for API-21 (Lollipop) or later.
This is a bit embarrassing, but I was using a different style in my Manifest file. That is why it wasn't working.
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 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.
I have an application with a Toolbar and I want to make the Toolbar transparent.
I have searched and got some answers but they are not working at all!
now I sign up and asking question , how should i make my Toolbar transparent? (I mean no background at all).
my API is 15, android 4.0.3
<?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:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
local:theme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat"
local:popupTheme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat" />
When you declare the Toolbar in your Java Activity, try using this code to set the Opacity/Alpha value like so:
toolbar.getBackground().setAlpha(0);
Also you could use this theme to set the background to empty
<style name="Theme.Custom" parent="#android:style/Theme.AppCompat">
<item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
<item name="windowActionBarOverlay">true</item>
<item name="android:windowActionBarOverlay">true</item>
</style>
<style name="CustomActionBar" parent="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar">
<item name="android:windowActionBarOverlay">true</item>
<!-- Support library compatibility -->
<item name="windowActionBarOverlay">true</item>
</style>
Then in your Toolbar, set the theme with this value
app:theme="#style/CustomActionBar"/>
set toolbar hidden: yes maybe it can work.
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.