I've used the following style:
http://jgilfelt.github.io/android-actionbarstylegenerator/#name=zhc_style&compat=appcompat&theme=light_dark&actionbarstyle=solid&texture=1&hairline=1&neutralPressed=1&backColor=cd0079%2C100&secondaryColor=cd0079%2C100&tabColor=cd0079%2C100&tertiaryColor=303030%2C100&accentColor=cd0079%2C100&cabBackColor=002E3E%2C100&cabHighlightColor=cd0079%2C100
Long story short, it makes the ActionBar purple.
I've taken all the files from the .zip file and placed them in my project. Within the <resources> of the file styles_zhc_style.xml I've got:
<style name="Theme.Zhc_style" parent="#style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
<item name="android:actionBarItemBackground">#drawable/selectable_background_zhc_style</item>
<item name="android:popupMenuStyle">#style/PopupMenu.Zhc_style</item>
<item name="android:dropDownListViewStyle">#style/DropDownListView.Zhc_style</item>
<item name="android:actionBarTabStyle">#style/ActionBarTabStyle.Zhc_style</item>
<item name="android:actionDropDownStyle">#style/DropDownNav.Zhc_style</item>
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/ActionBar.Solid.Zhc_style</item>
<item name="android:actionModeBackground">#drawable/cab_background_top_zhc_style</item>
<item name="android:actionModeSplitBackground">#drawable/cab_background_bottom_zhc_style</item>
<item name="android:actionModeCloseButtonStyle">#style/ActionButton.CloseMode.Zhc_style</item>
<!-- Light.DarkActionBar specific -->
<item name="android:actionBarWidgetTheme">#style/Theme.Zhc_style.Widget</item>
</style>
I've changed my Android Manifest to the following:
<application
android:allowBackup="true"
android:name="com.zhc.android.ZHCApp"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_launcher"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:theme="#style/Theme.Zhc_style" >
<activity
android:name=".MainActivity"
android:label="#string/app_name" >
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
</application>
My minimum sdk version is 16, my target sdk version is 21.
I still get the dark ActionBar on top of my application. When I change the settings using the Style Generator to have the Base Theme 'Light' and move all the files again, I see that the ActionBar indeed becomes light themed. Lighter ActionBar, black instead of white letters... but still no purple.
What am I doing wrong?
I've 'solved' the problem by removing the NavigationDrawer Fragment I've used, and placed a Toolbar on top instead. (Android 5.0).
Not really a solution, but an alternative people could consider.
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I've a newly created project and the first thing I want to do is add and style an action bar. I made it the way they tell in their official tutorials and even tried some other ways but I just can't make it work.
After many tries, I decided to do something really basic but even like that I can't make it work.
This is what I have:
styles.xml
<resources>
<!-- Base application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="#style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/ActionBar</item>
</style>
<style name="ActionBar" parent="#style/Widget.AppCompat.Light.ActionBar.Solid.Inverse">
<item name="android:background">#color/blue</item>
</style>
manifest.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<application
android:allowBackup="true"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_launcher"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:theme="#style/AppTheme" >
<activity
android:name=".MainActivity"
android:label="#string/app_name" >
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
</application>
Another question is what is the difference between the #android:style/Theme.Holo, #style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar or simply Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar?
Thanks.
Per the Using the Material Theme training, the Material theme (and AppCompat theme's which backport / use Material theming) use colorPrimary to color the action bar. Therefore your theme can be:
<style name="AppTheme" parent="#style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/blue</item>
</style>
You'll find more details on how to theme using AppCompat / Material in the AppCompat v21 blog post and in this pro-tip
I recommend you use this tools to generate ActionBar styles:
http://jgilfelt.github.io/android-actionbarstylegenerator/
Good Luck!
so I'm trying to style my application, and I've run into problems when using the Holo theme. I have no intrest in earlier versions of android, so I'don't want to use AppCompat.
To do my error checking I have created an empty app with one blank activity. This is my styles.xml:
<resources>
<!-- Base application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="#android:style/Theme.Holo.Light.DarkActionBar">
<!-- Customize your theme here. -->
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/AppTheme_ActionBarTheme</item>
</style>
<style name="AppTheme_ActionBarTheme" parent="#android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar">
<item name="android:background">#color/light_green</item>
<item name="android:titleTextStyle">#style/AppTheme_ActionBarTheme_Text</item>
</style>
<style name="AppTheme_ActionBarTheme_Text" parent="AppTheme_ActionBarTheme">
<item name="android:textColor">#color/light</item>
</style>
</resources>
and this is my AndroidManifest.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="com.fokamb.chmielowskim.fokamb" >
<uses-sdk android:targetSdkVersion="15" android:minSdkVersion="14"/>
<application
android:allowBackup="true"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:theme="#style/AppTheme"
>
<activity
android:name=".MainActivity"
android:label="#string/main_act_name" >
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
</application>
</manifest>
I didn't change any other files, and I tried running this app on an emulator with API level 21 and my phone with api 19. On both, i get the message "Unfortunately, FokaMB has stopped"
Even though, in the preview window in android studio the app looks the way I would've liked it to.
So, where might be my mistake? If I use AppCompat app works fine, but im unable to change the text color of actionbar (even though the background changes). Any help would be greatly appreciated:)
I've a newly created project and the first thing I want to do is add and style an action bar. I made it the way they tell in their official tutorials and even tried some other ways but I just can't make it work.
After many tries, I decided to do something really basic but even like that I can't make it work.
This is what I have:
styles.xml
<resources>
<!-- Base application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="#style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/ActionBar</item>
</style>
<style name="ActionBar" parent="#style/Widget.AppCompat.Light.ActionBar.Solid.Inverse">
<item name="android:background">#color/blue</item>
</style>
manifest.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<application
android:allowBackup="true"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_launcher"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:theme="#style/AppTheme" >
<activity
android:name=".MainActivity"
android:label="#string/app_name" >
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
</application>
Another question is what is the difference between the #android:style/Theme.Holo, #style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar or simply Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar?
Thanks.
Per the Using the Material Theme training, the Material theme (and AppCompat theme's which backport / use Material theming) use colorPrimary to color the action bar. Therefore your theme can be:
<style name="AppTheme" parent="#style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/blue</item>
</style>
You'll find more details on how to theme using AppCompat / Material in the AppCompat v21 blog post and in this pro-tip
I recommend you use this tools to generate ActionBar styles:
http://jgilfelt.github.io/android-actionbarstylegenerator/
Good Luck!
i want to disable the ActionBar in my application, I have been looking for a solution on stackoverflow for quiet a while but nothing helped. My problem is that my custom-theme "NoActionBar" is not used, instead it keeps using "AppBaseTheme" although I changed it in the manifest:
android:theme="#style/NoActionBar"
values-v14 styles:
<resources>
<!--
Base application theme for API 14+. This theme completely replaces
AppBaseTheme from BOTH res/values/styles.xml and
res/values-v11/styles.xml on API 14+ devices.
-->
<style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
<!-- API 14 theme customizations can go here. -->
</style>
<style name="NoActionBar" parent="AppBaseTheme">
<item name="android:windowActionBar">false</item>
<item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
</style>
same with values-v11. In values i added this line but I think its not neccessary:
<style name="NoActionBar" parent="AppBaseTheme">
<item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
</style>
I tried to change the parent of NoActionBar, didn't work. I tried to create an extra .xml for "NoActionBar" but that didn't work either because the manifest didn't find it. I tried other tipps from stackoverflow questions but they're pretty outdated.
I know when i put the two "items" within the "AppBaseTheme"-style it works, but I'm pretty sure that is not the proper way to use it?
In a nutshell:
Can somebody please explain to me why its not using my theme? What theme needs which parent? (How would I define multiple themes?)
I hope I explained it properly, I assume the answer is rather simple, sorry in advance for my language mistakes, I'm not native. Thanks!
Edit Manifest:
<uses-sdk
android:minSdkVersion="8"
android:targetSdkVersion="21" />
<application
android:allowBackup="true"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_launcher"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:theme="#style/NoActionBar" >
<activity
android:name=".MainActivity"
android:label="#string/app_name" >
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
</application>
You are using your theme but your parent can't be AppBaseTheme, you have to use as parent for example Theme.Holo.NoActionBar or at least a style without action bar.
I know this question has been asked million times but whichever method I use is not good for me.
If I use
android:theme="#android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar"
in the manifest file, the whole theme of the app changes. If I put
requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
in the onCreate activities, it shows up shortly when starting an app.
Btw I don't have any theme selected, just using standard android.
It is unclear what you mean by "whole theme of app changes". For API Level 11+ devices, you probably should be using #android:style/Theme.Holo.NoActionBar.
If you add the theme to the application, it applies to the whole app.
android:theme="#android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar"
You have to add it to the activity declaration.
<activity
android:name=".YourActivity"
android:theme="#android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar"/>
To remove the title bar from your app in android studio
Open res > values > styles.xml file
Replace your code with:
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
Open your style.xml file, create a new style just like below.
You choose your own name and set the parent as below
<style name="your_own_name" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
</style>
In your AndroidManifest.xml file, set the theme name for the specific activity you dont want the bar to show and you are done
<activity android:theme ="#style/your_own_name" >
</activity>
This is what worked for me
android:theme="#style/Theme.AppCompat.NoActionBar">
when you create a new project in android then you will get default theme applied on your project, that has title bar. but if you want to remove or apply some other theme for your whole App then you can define like below at application level:
<application
android:name="com.mycomp.myproj.MainApplication"
android:allowBackup="true"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_launcher"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:theme="#style/Theme.Sherlock" >
but if you want to apply some theme only at some specific screens then you can define like below at activity level:
<activity
android:name="com.mycomp.myproj.MainActivity"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:theme="#style/AppTheme">
For android 8 and above support. Use this in your app theme file. I've modified my default in res/styles.xml :
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.NoActionBar">
<!-- Customize your theme here. -->
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/colorPrimary</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
<item name="colorAccent">#color/colorAccent</item>
<item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
<item name="android:background">#color/white</item>
</style>
Inside AndroidManifest
<activity
android:name=".activity.HomeMenu"
android:screenOrientation="nosensor"
android:theme="#android:style/Theme.Light.NoTitleBar">
<intent-filter>
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
and make sure your Class extends to Activity
If you have made a custom theme in styles.xml you can do this:
<style name="AppTheme" parent="android:Theme.Material.Light">
<!-- Override the android colour scheme etc. -->
<item name="android:colorPrimary">#color/color_primary</item>
</style>
To remove the Action bar and title add to styles.xml:
<style name="AppTheme.NoActionBar">
<item name="android:windowActionBar">false</item>
<item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
</style>
Then in your AndroidManifest.xml you can use your custom theme with or without the action bar
<application
android:icon="#mipmap/ic_launcher"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:theme="#style/AppTheme"> <---- With action bar
<activity
android:theme="#style/AppTheme.NoActionBar"> <---- No action bar
<intent-filter>
etc...