Right now I am using Widget.AppCompat.SearchView to get a search bar that looks and can be adjusted as explained in this article
But I want something more like this but with my own color scheme.
Do I need to use another widget? And if so which one?
i think you need Theme.AppCompact.Light for Bright colors.
in res/values/themes.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<!-- 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">#drawable/actionbar_background</item>
</style>
</resources>
or this is for change color of Text (Search Text) ;
in : res/values/themes.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<!-- the theme applied to the application or activity -->
<style name="CustomActionBarTheme"
parent="#style/Theme.Holo">
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/MyActionBar</item>
<item name="android:actionBarTabTextStyle">#style/MyActionBarTabText</item>
<item name="android:actionMenuTextColor">#color/actionbar_text</item>
</style>
<!-- ActionBar styles -->
<style name="MyActionBar"
parent="#style/Widget.Holo.ActionBar">
<item name="android:titleTextStyle">#style/MyActionBarTitleText</item>
</style>
<!-- ActionBar title text -->
<style name="MyActionBarTitleText"
parent="#style/TextAppearance.Holo.Widget.ActionBar.Title">
<item name="android:textColor">#color/actionbar_text</item>
</style>
<!-- ActionBar tabs text styles -->
<style name="MyActionBarTabText"
parent="#style/Widget.Holo.ActionBar.TabText">
<item name="android:textColor">#color/actionbar_text</item>
</style>
</resources>
if you can translate farsi Language, use this :
Customization Searchbar
and i also suggest you, read this :
Customize the Android search view widget
Hope this help you.
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I'm trying to style the action bar inside my app using the code below.
<resources>
<!-- the theme applied to the application or activity -->
<style name="myTheme" parent="#style/Theme.AppCompat">
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/MyActionBar</item>
<item name="actionBarStyle">#style/MyActionBar</item>
</style>
<!-- ActionBar styles -->
<style name="MyActionBar" parent="#style/Widget.AppCompat.ActionBar">
<item name="android:textSize">24sp</item>
</style>
simply put the font should be bigger.. but nope.
Any ideas as to why?
Thanks.
Possibly your theme is not applied to activity. Set it in manifest:
<activity
android:name=".YourActivty"
android:theme="#style/myTheme" />
UPDATE 1
You should change action bar text size in such way (changing titleTextStyle):
<style name="Theme.YourTheme" parent="android:style/Theme">
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/Theme.YourTheme.Styled.ActionBar</item>
</style>
<style name="Theme.YourTheme.Styled.ActionBar">
<item name="android:titleTextStyle">#style/Theme.Viadeo.Styled.YourTheme.TitleTextStyle</item>
</style>
<style name="Theme.YourTheme.Styled.ActionBar.TitleTextStyle" parent="#android:style/Widget.TextView">
<item name="android:textSize">24sp</item>
</style>
Here is my xml code in styles.xml to change theme and colour of ActionBar.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- Base application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/MyActionBar</item>
</style>
<!-- ActionBar styles -->
<style name="MyActionBar"
parent="Widget.AppCompat.Light.ActionBar.Solid.Inverse">
<item name="android:icon">#drawable/brand_logo</item>
<item name="android:background">#ff5d44</item>
</style>
Here is the documentation. My app supports API level 11 and higher. Not sure where I am going wrong. Please help.
set "AppTheme" as theme for application / activity.
<!-- Base application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">
<!-- Customize your theme here. -->
<item name="colorPrimary">#android:color/white</item>
</style>
For more check THIS ,THIS and THIS
I was using support library. So here is the fix.
<style name="MyActionBar"
parent="#style/Widget.AppCompat.Light.ActionBar.Solid.Inverse">
<item name="android:background">#ff5d44</item>
<item name="android:titleTextStyle">#style/MyActionBarTitleText</item>
<!--Support library compatibility-->
<item name="background">#color/orange</item>
<item name="titleTextStyle">#style/MyActionBarTitleText</item>
</style>
This question already has an answer here:
Change Android 5.0 Actionbar color
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Closed 7 years ago.
I'm trying to change background color of action bar in my app and my styles.xml looks that:
<resources>
<!-- Application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">
<!-- Main theme colors -->
<!-- your app branding color for the app bar -->
<!-- darker variant for the status bar and contextual app bars -->
<item name="colorPrimary">#71343e</item>
<!-- theme UI controls like checkboxes and text fields -->
<!-- native widgets will now be "tinted" with accent color -->
<item name="colorAccent">#ff71bf41</item>
<!--Action bar style-->
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/AppTheme.ActionBar</item>
<item name="actionBarStyle">#style/AppTheme.ActionBar</item>
</style>
<style name="AppTheme.ActionBar" parent="Widget.AppCompat.Light.ActionBar">
<item name="titleTextStyle">#style/AppTheme.ActionBar.TitleText</item>
<item name="android:titleTextStyle">#style/AppTheme.ActionBar.TitleText</item>
<item name="android:height">100dp</item>
<item name="android:colorBackground">#71343e</item>
</style>
<style name="AppTheme.ActionBar.TitleText" parent="TextAppearance.AppCompat.Widget.ActionBar.Title">
<item name="android:textColor">#0d5875</item>
</style>
I'have tryed to use various color argument but anyone work. How I can change the ActionBar color?
For android version 3.0+, this is one solution:
inside res/values/themes.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<!-- 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">#drawable/actionbar_background</item>
</style>
</resources>
And set it to your whole application (or individual activities)
<application android:theme="#style/CustomActionBarTheme" ... />
For android version 2.1+, you have to modify it a bit
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<!-- the theme applied to the application or activity -->
<style name="CustomActionBarTheme"
parent="#style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/MyActionBar</item>
<!-- Support library compatibility -->
<item name="actionBarStyle">#style/MyActionBar</item>
</style>
<!-- ActionBar styles -->
<style name="MyActionBar"
parent="#style/Widget.AppCompat.Light.ActionBar.Solid.Inverse">
<item name="android:background">#drawable/actionbar_background</item>
<!-- Support library compatibility -->
<item name="background">#drawable/actionbar_background</item>
</style>
</resources>
And
<application android:theme="#style/CustomActionBarTheme" ... />
You can find more information about styling the ActionBar here.
I've included my theme in the Manifest file. My theme's code is as follows
<resources>
<!-- Activity themes -->
<style name="Theme.Base" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light" />
<style name="Theme.Sample" parent="Theme.Base" />
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.Sample" >
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/MyActionBar</item>
</style>
<style name="MyActionBar" parent="#style/Widget.AppCompat.ActionBar">
<item name="android:background">#color/blue</item>
</style>
</resources>
All my activities inherit ActionBarActivity
I can't seem to change the color of my ActionBar.
Please help.
I am running this on an emulator with API 21.
How can I style my ActionBar?
The AppCompat v21 doesn't read any android: attributes related to the action bar:
<style name="Theme.MyTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">
<!-- Here we setting appcompat’s actionBarStyle -->
<item name="actionBarStyle">#style/MyActionBarStyle</item>
<!-- ...and here we setting appcompat’s color theming attrs -->
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/my_awesome_red</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#color/my_awesome_darker_red</item>
<!-- The rest of your attributes -->
</style>
You can change the color adding this code to your style:
<item name="colorPrimary">#android:color/holo_red_dark</item>
With colorPrimaryDark you can change the status bar color.
Take care, use colorPrimary, dont use android:colorPrimary, this last only works with 21.
All code:
<resources>
<!-- Activity themes -->
<style name="Theme.Base" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light" />
<style name="Theme.Sample" parent="Theme.Base" />
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.Sample" >
<item name="colorPrimary">#android:color/holo_red_dark</item>
</style>
</resources>
I found this Google Blog Post for the v21 appCompat extremly helpful. It explains the usage pretty good.
You can do this by below way
Simply edit the res/values/styles.xml file of your Android project.
For example like this:
<resources>
<style name="MyCustomTheme" parent="#android:style/Theme.Holo.Light">
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/MyActionBarTheme</item>
</style>
<style name="MyActionBarTheme" parent="#android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar">
<item name="android:background">ANY_HEX_COLOR_CODE</item>
</style>
</resources>
or by java code
ActionBar actionBar = getActionBar();
actionBar.setBackgroundDrawable(new ColorDrawable(Color.RED));
How to change the color of Action Bar Back Button and Action bar Menu Icon(Image attached).
I have the following style code(below), using which I customized the Text but I'm not able to completely customize the Action Bar.
Below is the Style code which I have used :
<style name="MyCustomTheme" parent="Theme.Sherlock.Light">
<item name="actionBarStyle">#style/ActionBar</item>
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/ActionBar</item>
</style>
<style name="ActionBar" parent="Widget.Sherlock.ActionBar">
<item name="background">#drawable/bg_header</item> -----------(1)
<item name="android:background">#drawable/bg_header</item>
<item name="android:titleTextStyle">#style/customTextAppearance.Sherlock.Widget.ActionBar.Title</item> ----(2)
<item name="titleTextStyle">#style/customTextAppearance.Sherlock.Widget.ActionBar.Title</item>
<item name="android:homeAsUpIndicator">#style/customTextAppearance.Sherlock.Widget.ActionBar.Title</item>
</style>
<style name="customTextAppearance.Sherlock.Widget.ActionBar.Title" parent="TextAppearance.Sherlock.Widget.ActionBar.Title">
<item name="android:textSize">18dp</item>
<item name="android:textColor">#ffffff</item>
<item name="android:shadowColor">#ffffff</item>
<item name="android:shadowDy">3</item>
<item name="android:textStyle">bold</item>
</style>
Your help will be appreciated, Thank you.
Just find proper icons for your actionbar and customize it...
and then make changes in your...
You Can Do Following For Changing Icons Of Actionbar
style.xml
<style name="Widget.ActionButton.Overflow" parent="#android:style/Widget.Holo.ActionButton.Overflow">
<item name="android:src">#drawable/ic_action_overflow</item>
</style>
<style name="Your.Theme" parent="#android:style/Theme.Holo.Light.DarkActionBar">
<item name="android:actionOverflowButtonStyle">#style/Widget.ActionButton.Overflow</item>
<item name="android:homeAsUpIndicator">#drawable/my_fancy_up_indicator</item>
</style>
check out this page on android help https://developer.android.com/training/basics/actionbar/styling.html
When supporting Android 3.0 and higher only,
you can define the action bar's background like this: res/values/themes.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<!-- 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">#drawable/actionbar_background</item>
</style>
</resources>
Then apply your theme to your entire app or individual activities:
<application android:theme="#style/CustomActionBarTheme" ... />
For Android 2.1 and higher
When using the Support Library, the same theme as above must instead look like this:
res/values/themes.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<!-- the theme applied to the application or activity -->
<style name="CustomActionBarTheme"
parent="#style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/MyActionBar</item>
<!-- Support library compatibility -->
<item name="actionBarStyle">#style/MyActionBar</item>
</style>
<!-- ActionBar styles -->
<style name="MyActionBar"
parent="#style/Widget.AppCompat.Light.ActionBar.Solid.Inverse">
<item name="android:background">#drawable/actionbar_background</item>
<!-- Support library compatibility -->
<item name="background">#drawable/actionbar_background</item>
</style>
</resources>
Then apply your theme to your entire app or individual activities:
<application android:theme="#style/CustomActionBarTheme" ... />