Android Theme.AppCompat.Light with Dark Toolbar (for light text)

Android Theme.AppCompat.Light with Dark Toolbar (for light text) - android

I have an app using Theme.AppCompat.Light which I need to use so Dialogs have the light theme. But this makes the text in my toolbar black, where I'd rather it be white. I've tried setting the toolbar's specific app:theme to AppCompat.Dark.Actionbar, but no luck... I searched around for a while and couldn't find a specific question and answer to this.
Here's my default AppTheme:
<style name="AppTheme.Parent" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/blue</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#color/dark_blue</item>
<item name="colorAccent">#color/pink</item>
<item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
<item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
</style>
Here's my toolbar.xml:
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
android:minHeight="#dimen/abc_action_bar_default_height_material"
app:theme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar"
app:popupTheme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light" />

In order to change the color of the title in your Toolbar you simply have to add the attribute android:textColorPrimary to your Toolbar style.
Please see the following example for even more attributes of the Toolbar.
Example
<style name="MyToolbarStyle" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.ActionBar">
<!-- Used to for the title of the Toolbar -->
<item name="android:textColorPrimary">#fff</item>
<!-- Used to for the title of the Toolbar when parent is Theme.AppCompat.Light -->
<item name="android:textColorPrimaryInverse">#fff</item>
<!-- Used to color the text of the action menu icons -->
<item name="android:textColorSecondary">#fff</item>
<!-- Used to color the overflow menu icon -->
<item name="actionMenuTextColor">#fff</item>
<!-- Color of the Toolbar -->
<item name="android:background">#455a64</item>
</style>
Result

You can customize toolbar yourself no need to set default text, use your own textview :
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
android:minHeight="#dimen/abc_action_bar_default_height_material">
<!-- Below will add your text in the center of toolbar -->
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:text="Your Text"
android:textColor=#ff0000
android:textStyle="bold"/>
</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>

While custom styling may work, the AppCompat library already provides an easy way to do this. If your Toolbar's background color is dark/doesn't provide enough contrast, use `ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark as its parent:
<style name="MyTheme.PopupOverlay" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark" />
Then style your `Toolbar accordingly:
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:background="#color/some_dark_color"
android:theme="#style/MyTheme.PopupOverlay" />
Toolbars using backgrounds with lighter colors should use ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light as their parent.

try this work in 2021, the first set of themes in the activity android:theme="#style/AppTheme.NoActionBar" and set theme in xml
<style name="AppTheme.NoActionBar">
<item name="theme">#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar</item>
<item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
</style>

Related

How to change the color of "Home" icon at the leftmost by using XML style in Android 10

The ActionBar has two icons, one is the "Overflow" icon at the rightmost, the other is the "Home" icon (Three horizontal lines icon) at the leftmost.
The color of the ActionBar "Overflow" (Rightmost) icon can be changed by the following style:
<style name="ActionBarOverflowStyle" parent="#style/Widget.AppCompat.ActionButton.Overflow" >
<item name="android:tint">#color/red</item>
</style>
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
<item name="android:actionOverflowButtonStyle">#style/ActionBarOverflowStyle</item>
</style>
But how to change the color of "Home" icon at the leftmost by using XML style?
Also when navigating to the next fragment, the "Back" icon will appear in the ActionBar, how to change the color of "Back" icon at the leftmost by using XML style?
Here is the layout xml:
<com.google.android.material.appbar.AppBarLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:theme="#style/AppTheme.PopupOverlay">
<androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
app:popupTheme="#style/AppTheme.AppBarOverlay" />
</com.google.android.material.appbar.AppBarLayout>
Here is the style xml:
<style name="MyThemeOverlay_Toolbar" parent="#style/ThemeOverlay.MaterialComponents.ActionBar">
<item name="android:tint">#color/red</item>
<item name="android:iconTint">#color/red</item>
<item name="android:colorControlNormal">#color/red</item>
</style>
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
<item name="android:actionOverflowButtonStyle">#style/ActionBarOverflowStyle</item>
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/MyThemeOverlay_Toolbar</item>
</style>
The color of "Menu" icon can't be changed with this style configuration.
Thanks.

With the help of #GabrieleMariotti, here is the answer for setting both "Home" and "Overflow" icons.
Firstly, remove android:theme attribute from AppBarLayout and Toolbar from layout xml:
<com.google.android.material.appbar.AppBarLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"/>
</com.google.android.material.appbar.AppBarLayout>
Secondly, set the following items in the styles xml:
<style name="ActionButtonOverflow" parent="#style/Widget.AppCompat.ActionButton.Overflow" >
<item name="android:tint">#color/yellow</item>
</style>
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
<item name="colorControlNormal">#color/red</item>
<item name="android:actionOverflowButtonStyle">#style/ActionButtonOverflow</item>
</style>
Thanks.

Android custom toolbar theme not being applied

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"

AppCompat toolbar dark theme style not working on pre 21 devices

First of all I have repeatedly read and applied everything posted here, but it does not solve my problem. It seems that every answer posted here is to apply style to theme attribute of the toolbar, i've tried it it got me nowhere, so let me explain what my problem is:
I want to have light theme everywhere except the toolbar. On Lollipop devices, it's not a problem, but on pre Lollipop devices toolbars Title and overflow button always adopts MyTheme parent style, so I get dark Title and dark overflow button (it's my only button there) it seems like theme attribute is malfunctioning in Toolbar.
I'm using AppCompatActivity for my base class, my minimum api is 15 and AppCompat version is 22.2.1.0
Here's my code:
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:local="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:id="#+id/toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
local:theme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar"
local:popupTheme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light"/>
<style name="MyTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
<item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
<item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/primary_color</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#color/dark_primary_color</item>
<item name="colorAccent">#color/accent_color</item>
<item name="android:statusBarColor">#color/dark_primary_color</item>
<item name="selectableItemBackground">?android:attr/selectableItemBackground</item>
</style>
my hamburger item is white because I inflate image from resource
var toolbar = FindViewById<Toolbar>(Resource.Id.toolbar);
SetSupportActionBar(toolbar);
SupportActionBar.Title = "Sport";
if (Build.VERSION.SdkInt >= BuildVersionCodes.Lollipop)
Window.AddFlags(WindowManagerFlags.DrawsSystemBarBackgrounds);
if (SupportActionBar != null){
SupportActionBar.SetHomeAsUpIndicator(Resource.Drawable.ic_menu_white_24dp);
SupportActionBar.SetDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
}

<?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_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#color/colorPrimary"
app:theme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark"
app:popupTheme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light"
>
</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>
Try This combination in your toolbar code it should work just fine.

This is what worked for me in the end:
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:local="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:id="#+id/toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
local:titleTextColor="#android:color/white"
local:theme="#style/ToolbarTheme"
local:popupTheme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light" />
<style name="ToolbarTheme" parent="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar">
<item name="android:background">#color/primary_color</item>
<!-- Used to for the title of the Toolbar -->
<item name="android:textColorPrimary">#fff</item>
<!-- Used to for the title of the Toolbar when parent is Theme.AppCompat.Light -->
<item name="android:textColorPrimaryInverse">#fff</item>
<!-- Used to color the text of the action menu icons -->
<item name="android:textColorSecondary">#fff</item>
<!-- Used to color the overflow menu icon -->
<item name="actionMenuTextColor">#fff</item>
</style>
<style name="MyTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/primary_color</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#color/dark_primary_color</item>
<item name="colorAccent">#color/accent_color</item>
<item name="android:statusBarColor">#color/dark_primary_color</item>
<item name="colorControlNormal">#fff</item>
</style>
In this case ColorControlNormal colored overflow icon and titleTextColor colored Title. It seems that in my case ToolbarTheme doesn't work. I don't have a clue why is it, but now I don't care. This is not an optimal solution but it works.

Android Support Toolbar Styling

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"
/>

Change title color in toolbar?

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.

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try this work in 2021, the first set of themes in the activity android:theme="#style/AppTheme.NoActionBar" and set theme in xml <style name="AppTheme.NoActionBar"> <item name="theme">#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar</item> <item name="windowNoTitle">true</item> </style>

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