Android: Add a style to the actionbar on one activity - android

I want to add a style from styles.xml
<style name="BlueActionBar" parent="#android:style/Widget.Holo.ActionBar">
<item name="android:background">#color/blue</item>
<item name="android:textColor">#FFFFFF</item>
</style>
to my Actionbar but just on the Activity BlueActivity (which is still blank). How to do that? I'm stuck :'(
edit:
Why does adding
android:actionBarStyle="#style/BlueActionBar"
to BlueActivity in the Manifest not work?


themes.xml:
<style name="Theme.Project.Activity1" parent="Theme.Sherlock.Light.DarkActionBar">
<item name="actionBarStyle">#style/Widget.Project.Activity1.ActionBar</item>
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/Widget.Project.Activity1.ActionBar</item>
</style>
AndroidManifest.xml:
<activity android:name="com.example.Activity1"
android:theme="#style/Theme.Project.Activity1"
/>

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Hello I am using the Sherlock library to achieve the ActionBarTabs in Android but there is some weird issue that text appear in the Tabs are all caps. I dont want to make all caps to captital. How can I achive this ?
I tried this but this is not working
values-v14.xml
<style name="TariffPlansTheme" parent="Theme.Sherlock">
<item name="actionMenuTextAppearance">#style/MyMenuTextAppearance</item>
<item name="android:actionMenuTextAppearance">#style/MyMenuTextAppearance</item>
</style>
<style name="MyMenuTextAppearance" parent="TextAppearance.Sherlock.Widget.ActionBar.Menu">
<item name="android:textAllCaps">false</item>
</style>
AndroidManifest.xml
<activity
android:name="TariffPlansActivity"
android:label="#string/title_activity_tariff_plans"
android:screenOrientation="portrait"
android:theme="#style/TariffPlansTheme">
</activity>
Thanks in advance.

This solved my issue. I was using wrong parent style Menu instead of Tab
<resources>
<style name="AppTheme" parent="android:Theme.Holo.Light" />
<style name="TariffPlansTheme" parent="Theme.Sherlock">
<item name="actionBarTabTextStyle">#style/My.TabText.Style</item>
<item name="android:actionBarTabTextStyle">#style/My.TabText.Style</item>
</style>
<style name="My.TabText.Style" parent="#style/Widget.Sherlock.ActionBar.TabText">
<item name="android:textAllCaps">false</item>
</style>
</resources>

Text appear all caps in Action Bar Tabs in Sherlock

Hello I am using the Sherlock library to achieve the ActionBarTabs in Android but there is some weird issue that text appear in the Tabs are all caps. I dont want to make all caps to captital. How can I achive this ?
I tried this but this is not working
values-v14.xml
<style name="TariffPlansTheme" parent="Theme.Sherlock">
<item name="actionMenuTextAppearance">#style/MyMenuTextAppearance</item>
<item name="android:actionMenuTextAppearance">#style/MyMenuTextAppearance</item>
</style>
<style name="MyMenuTextAppearance" parent="TextAppearance.Sherlock.Widget.ActionBar.Menu">
<item name="android:textAllCaps">false</item>
</style>
AndroidManifest.xml
<activity
android:name="TariffPlansActivity"
android:label="#string/title_activity_tariff_plans"
android:screenOrientation="portrait"
android:theme="#style/TariffPlansTheme">
</activity>
Thanks in advance.

This solved my issue. I was using wrong parent style Menu instead of Tab
<resources>
<style name="AppTheme" parent="android:Theme.Holo.Light" />
<style name="TariffPlansTheme" parent="Theme.Sherlock">
<item name="actionBarTabTextStyle">#style/My.TabText.Style</item>
<item name="android:actionBarTabTextStyle">#style/My.TabText.Style</item>
</style>
<style name="My.TabText.Style" parent="#style/Widget.Sherlock.ActionBar.TabText">
<item name="android:textAllCaps">false</item>
</style>
</resources>

Android: Title Bar Color don't change

I wanna change my Apps Titlebar color and tried it in this way:
Part of the manifest file:
<application
android:icon="#drawable/icon"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:theme="#style/Theme.MyTitleBar" ></application>
The style block part of the file styles.xml:
<style name="Theme.MyTitleBar" parent="android:Theme">
<item name="android:colorBackground">#FFFFFF</item>
<item name="android:background">#FFFFFF</item>
<item name="android:textColor">#android:color/black</item>
<item name="android:textStyle">bold</item>
<item name="android:textSize">16sp</item>
</style>
But only the text color and attributes changes correct. Any guest what I did wrong?

EDIT: I added the part for the ActionBar (sorry I put only for Dialogs at first)
You can follow this, it will allow you to change moreover other attributes that just the title bar:
Just call your custom theme in the manifest file:
<application
android:icon="#drawable/icon"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:theme="#style/AppTheme" >
Then create these 2 styles in your styles.xml. The first one defines the theme, the second one, one of the styles to apply on the theme:
<style name="AppTheme" parent="#android:style/Theme.Holo.Light">
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/ActionBarStyle</item>
</style>
<style name="ActionBarStyle" parent="android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar">
<item name="android:colorBackground">#FFFFFF</item>
<item name="android:background">#FFFFFF</item>
<item name="android:textColor">#android:color/black</item>
<item name="android:textStyle">bold</item>
<item name="android:textSize">16sp</item>
</style>
NOTE: In this example, I customize the theme Holo Light as you can see with this: android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar.

Add This style.xml File in your project according to your requirment...
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/myActionBar</item>
</style>
<style name="myActionBar" parent="#android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar.Solid.Inverse">
<item name="android:titleTextStyle">#style/myActionBar.titleTextStyle</item>
</style>
<style name="myActionBar.titleTextStyle" parent="#android:style/TextAppearance.Holo.Widget.ActionBar.Title.Inverse">
<item name="android:textColor">#color/darkgrey</item>
</style>
<style name="myActionBar" parent="#android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar.Solid.Inverse">
<item name="android:background">#e6ebc3</item>
</style>

Themes overriding each other?

In my styles.xml file I have a style to remove the title bar and other styles to change my tabwidget's font size:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<style name="RemoveTitleBar" parent="android:Theme">
<item name="android:style/Theme.Black.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen">true</item>
<item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
</style>
<style name="CustomTheme" parent="android:style/Theme">
<item name="android:tabWidgetStyle">#style/CustomTabWidget</item>
</style>
<style name="CustomTabWidget" parent="android:style/Widget.TabWidget">
<item name="android:textAppearance">#style/CustomTabWidgetText</item>
</style>
<style name="CustomTabWidgetText" parent="android:style/TextAppearance.Widget.TabWidget">
<item name="android:textSize">12sp</item>
<item name="android:textStyle">bold</item>
</style>
In my AndroidManifest.xml file I set the RemoveTitleBar style to the application which works fine:
<application
android:icon="#drawable/ic_launcher_test_icon"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:theme="#style/RemoveTitleBar"
....
However when I apply the CustomTheme style to my activity with tabs, I get the title bar back. But if I remove the line it works fine.
<activity android:name=".TabActivity"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:screenOrientation="portrait"
android:theme="#style/CustomTheme"> </activity>
Am I going about this the wrong way or do I have to change something in my styles.xml file? Thanks for you time.

You are extending CustomTheme with "android:style/Theme":
<style name="CustomTheme" parent="android:style/Theme">
<item name="android:tabWidgetStyle">#style/CustomTabWidget</item>
</style>
and the titleBar is available in in this you aren't removing the titleBar, you will again need to remove the titleBar like this:
<style name="CustomTheme" parent="android:style/Theme">
<item name="android:tabWidgetStyle">#style/CustomTabWidget</item>
<item name="android:style/Theme.Black.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen">true</item>
</style>

AndroidManifest.xml and style

<activity android:name=".activity.MyHomePage" android:theme="#style/AppTheme.Light" android:label="New Tasks"/>
I have that Activity in my AndroidManifest.xml file. How do I set style on that android:label. I would like to set textsize and textcolor.
<style name="AppTheme.Light" parent="#android:style/Theme.Holo.Light">
<item name="android:windowBackground">#drawable/background</item>
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/ActionBarTextSize</item>
<item name="android:windowTitleSize">14pt</item>
</style>
OR
<style name="ActionBarTextSize" parent="#android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar">
<item name="android:textSize">14pt</item>
</style>

Are you talking about creating a custom window title style? If so, check this out: http://www.londatiga.net/it/how-to-create-custom-window-title-in-android/

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