Now I am working on a android app using actionbar sherlock and fragment.I used the following theme.
<style name="Theme.AndroidDevelopers" parent="Theme.Sherlock.ForceOverflow">
<item name="android:actionDropDownStyle">#style/MyDropDownNav</item>
<item name="actionDropDownStyle">#style/MyDropDownNav</item>
</style>
And I got the following Output.
But I want use the light theme so I changed the parent as
parent="Theme.Sherlock.Light.ForceOverflow"
Then I got the following output
The light theme is missing the blue underline. How can i make that blue underline?...Please help me friends.
You have to create you own theme in order to do that:
<resources>
<style name="MyTheme" parent="#android:style/Theme.Holo.Light">
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/MyActionBar</item>
</style>
<style name="MyActionBar" parent="#android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar">
<item name="android:background">ANY_HEX_COLOR_CODE</item>
</style>
</resources>
As the Background you can then put a modified 9 patch Image with a blue underline. Look at your Android Sdk > API 13+ there should be the original Actionbar bavkground drawables. Just modify them and set it as background. Don't forget to set this Theme as your App theme later on.
Edit:
Here are some 9 Patch images from Jake Whartons Action Bar Sherlock(what a coincidence that he formated my post earlier...:) ):
Create your own style for action bar and override background property:
<style name="MyActionBarStyle" parent="Widget.Sherlock.Light.ActionBar.Solid">
<item name="android:background">#drawable/bg_action_bar</item>
<item name="background">#drawable/bg_action_bar</item>
</style>
Use this style for your action bar in theme:
<style name="Theme.AndroidDevelopers" parent="Theme.Sherlock.Light.ForceOverflow">
<item name="actionBarStyle">#style/MyActionBarStyle</item>
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/MyActionBarStyle</item>
</style>
Take a look onto res\drawable-hdpi\abs__ab_transparent_light_holo.9.png drawable inside ActionBarSherlock sources how to create 9-patch drawable with color strip line at the bottom.
Related
I am wanting to customise the rows of the overflow menu in the action bar. I found a great blog post explaining how to go about doing this, which seem simple enough. The link is below.
http://scriptedpapers.com/2014/08/12/android-action-bar-overflow-menu-customization/
I am specifically wanting to change the background colour of the overflow menu rows so the theme that I am using looks like the following:
<resources>
<!--the theme applied to the application or activity -->
<style name="CustomActionBarTheme" parent="#android:style/Theme.Holo.Light.DarkActionBar">
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/CustomActionBar</item>
<item name="android:homeAsUpIndicator">#drawable/upcaret</item>
<item name="android:actionOverflowButtonStyle">#style/CustomOverflowButton</item>
<item name="android:popupMenuStyle">#style/PopupMenu</item>
</style>
<!--ActionBar style -->
<style name="CustomActionBar" parent="#android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar.Solid.Inverse">
<item name="android:background">#color/customBlue</item>
</style>
<style name="CustomOverflowButton" parent="#android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionButton.Overflow">
<item name="android:src">#drawable/overflowbutton</item>
</style>
<style name="PopupMenu" parent="android:Widget.Holo.Light.ListPopupWindow">
<item name="android:popupBackground">#color/customBlue</item>
</style>
Applying this theme to the application, the background colour of the overflow menu remains the same colour as the default for Holo.Light.DarkActionBar, despite setting a custom popupMenuStyle.
For my project, the minSdkVersion is 15 and targetSdkVersion is 19.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks.
Try specifying a 9-patch drawable instead of a color.
Go here and choose the color that you want your rows to be by selecting a color from the "Popup color" drop-down.
The only file you need from the zip is menu_dropdown_panel.9.png.
Make sure to place this file in your various drawable-xxxx folders.
Then use it like this:
<style name="PopupMenu" parent="android:Widget.Holo.Light.ListPopupWindow">
<item name="android:popupBackground">#drawable/menu_dropdown_panel</item>
</style>
If it still doesn't work, add this to the above:
Add this line to your main theme (CustomActionBarTheme):
<item name="android:actionBarWidgetTheme">#style/PopupWrapper</item>
Then add this:
<style name="PopupWrapper" parent="#android:style/Theme.Holo">
<item name="android:popupMenuStyle">#style/PopupMenu</item>
</style>
In the new lollipop update I noticed that with the native Google apps the color of the status bar changes to match the action bar on the app you're running. I see it's on the Twitter app also so I'm guessing it's not exclusively Google who can do it.
Does anyone know how to do this if it is possible?
To change status bar color use setStatusBarColor(int color).
According the javadoc, we also need set some flags on the window.
Working snippet of code:
Window window = activity.getWindow();
window.addFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_DRAWS_SYSTEM_BAR_BACKGROUNDS);
window.clearFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_TRANSLUCENT_STATUS);
window.setStatusBarColor(ContextCompat.getColor(activity, R.color.example_color));
Keep in mind according Material Design guidelines status bar color and action bar color should be different:
ActionBar should use primary 500 color
StatusBar should use primary 700 color
Look at the screenshot below:
Just add this in you styles.xml.
The colorPrimary is for the action bar and the colorPrimaryDark is for the status bar.
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
<item name="android:colorPrimary">#color/primary</item>
<item name="android:colorPrimaryDark">#color/primary_dark</item>
</style>
This picture from developer android explains more about color pallete. You can read more on this link.
Another way to set the status bar color is through the style.xml.
To do that, create a style.xml file under res/values-v21 folder with this content:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<style name="AppTheme" parent="android:Theme.Material">
<!-- darker variant for the status bar and contextual app bars -->
<item name="android:colorPrimaryDark">#color/blue_dark</item>
</style>
</resources>
Edit: as pointed out in comments, when using AppCompat the code is different. In file res/values/style.xml use instead:
<style name="Theme.MyTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">
<!-- Set AppCompat’s color theming attrs -->
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/my_awesome_red</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#color/my_awesome_darker_red</item>
<!-- Other attributes -->
</style>
To set the status bar color, create a style.xml file under res/values-v21 folder with this content:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="AppTheme">
<item name="android:windowDrawsSystemBarBackgrounds">true</item>
<item name="android:statusBarColor">#color/blue</item>
</style>
</resources>
Add this line in style of v21 if you use two style.
<item name="android:statusBarColor">#43434f</item>
Also if you want different status-bar color for different activity (fragments) you can do it with following steps (work on API 21 and above):
First create values21/style.xml and put following code:
<style name="AIO" parent="AIOBase">
<item name="android:windowDrawsSystemBarBackgrounds">true</item>
<item name="android:windowContentTransitions">true</item>
</style>
Then define White|Dark themes in your values/style.xml like following:
<style name="AIOBase" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/color_primary</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#color/color_primary_dark</item>
<item name="colorAccent">#color/color_accent</item>
<item name="android:textColorPrimary">#android:color/black</item>
<item name="android:statusBarColor" tools:targetApi="lollipop">#color/color_primary_dark
</item>
<item name="android:textColor">#color/gray_darkest</item>
<item name="android:windowBackground">#color/default_bg</item>
<item name="android:colorBackground">#color/default_bg</item>
</style>
<style name="AIO" parent="AIOBase" />
<style name="AIO.Dark" parent="AIOBase">
<item name="android:statusBarColor" tools:targetApi="lollipop">#171717
</item>
</style>
<style name="AIO.White" parent="AIOBase">
<item name="android:statusBarColor" tools:targetApi="lollipop">#bdbdbd
</item>
</style>
Also don't forget to apply themes in your manifest.xml.
In android pre Lollipop devices you can do it from SystemBarTintManager
If you are using android studio just add Systembartint lib in your gradle file.
dependencies {
compile 'com.readystatesoftware.systembartint:systembartint:1.0.3'
...
}
Then in your activity
// create manager instance after the content view is set
SystemBarTintManager mTintManager = new SystemBarTintManager(this);
// enable status bar tint
mTintManager.setStatusBarTintEnabled(true);
mTintManager.setTintColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.blue));
I want to change the color of text in my actionBar (from black to white), but it seems like nothing's working... somebody has suggestions?
Use custom style (If you are using Actionbarsherlock)
<style name="Widget.Styled.ActionBar" parent="Widget.Sherlock.Light.ActionBar.Solid.Inverse">
<item name="titleTextStyle">#style/TitleText</item>
<item name="android:titleTextStyle">#style/TitleText</item>
</style>
<style name="TitleText">
<item name="android:textColor">#android:color/white</item>
<item name="android:textSize">17dip</item>
</style>
in the themes.xml file.
Edit
to apply the theme
<style name="Theme.Custom" parent="Theme.Sherlock.Light">
<item name="actionBarStyle">#style/Widget.Styled.ActionBar</item>
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/Widget.Styled.ActionBar</item>
</style>
and in your activity/application in manifest
android:theme="#style/Theme.Custom"
probably the easiest way to style the action bar is using the action bar style generator online tool, you can find it here: http://jgilfelt.github.io/android-actionbarstylegenerator .
It will take care of generating all the needed assets and styles.
To have the text white, you can simply select "Dark" or "Light - Dark Actionbar" as base theme, then change the other colors according to your needs.
I am using Android Navigation bar in my project,
I want to change the top color in action bar to something red, How can i do that?
I have something like this,
and i want something like this,
how can i achieve that?
You can define the color of the ActionBar (and other stuff) by creating a custom Style:
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>
Then set "MyCustomTheme" as the Theme of your Activity that contains the ActionBar.
You can also set a color for the ActionBar like this:
ActionBar actionBar = getActionBar();
actionBar.setBackgroundDrawable(new ColorDrawable(Color.RED)); // set your desired color
Taken from here: How do I change the background color of the ActionBar of an ActionBarActivity using XML?
In general Android OS leverages a “theme” to allow app developers to globally apply a universal set of UI element styling parameters to Android applications as a whole, or, alternatively, to a single Activity subclass.
So there are three mainstream Android OS “system themes,” which you can specify in your Android Manifest XML file when you are developing apps for Version 3.0 and later versions
I am referring the (APPCOMPAT)support library here:--
So the three themes are
1. AppCompat Light Theme (Theme.AppCompat.Light)
AppCompat Dark Theme(Theme.AppCompat),
And a hybrid between these two ,AppCompat Light Theme with the Darker ActionBar.( Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar)
AndroidManifest.xml and see the tag, the android theme is mentioned as:-- android:theme="#style/AppTheme"
Open the Styles.xml and we have base application theme declared there:--
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
</style>
We need to override these parent theme elements to style the action bar.
ActionBar with different color background:--
To do this we need to create a new style MyActionBar(you can give any name) with a parent reference to #style/Widget.AppCompat.Light.ActionBar.Solid.Inverse that holds the style characteristics for the Android ActionBar UI element. So definition would be
<style name="MyActionBar" parent="#style/Widget.AppCompat.Light.ActionBar.Solid.Inverse">
<item name="background">#color/red</item>
</style>
And this definition we need to reference in our AppTheme, pointing to overridden ActionBar styling as--
#style/MyActionBar
Change the title bar text color (e.g black to white):--
Now to change the title text color, we need to override the parent reference parent="#style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Widget.ActionBar.Title">
So the style definition would be
<style name="MyActionBarTitle" parent="#style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Widget.ActionBar.Title">
<item name="android:textColor">#color/white</item>
</style>
We’ll reference this style definition inside the MyActionBar style definition, since the TitleTextStyle modification is a child element of an ActionBar parent OS UI element. So the final definition of MyActionBar style element will be
<style name="MyActionBar" parent="#style/Widget.AppCompat.Light.ActionBar.Solid.Inverse">
<item name="background">#color/red</item>
<item name="titleTextStyle">#style/MyActionBarTitle</item>
</style>
SO this is the final Styles.xml
<resources>
<!-- Base application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">
<!-- This is the styling for action bar -->
<item name="actionBarStyle">#style/MyActionBar</item>
</style>
<style name="MyActionBar" parent="#style/Widget.AppCompat.Light.ActionBar.Solid.Inverse">
<item name="background">#color/red</item>
<item name="titleTextStyle">#style/MyActionBarTitle</item>
</style>
<style name="MyActionBarTitle" parent="#style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Widget.ActionBar.Title">
<item name="android:textColor">#color/white</item>
</style>
</resources>
For further ActionBar options Menu styling, refer this link
For Android 3.0 and higher only
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="#style/Theme.Holo.Light.DarkActionBar">
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/MyActionBar</item>
</style>
<!-- ActionBar styles -->
<style name="MyActionBar" parent="#style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar.Solid.Inverse">
<item name="android:background">#ff0000</item>
</style>
</resources>
For Android 2.1 and higher
When using the Support Library, your style XML file might look like this:
<?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:
for more details Documentaion
You can change action bar color on this way:
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/green_action_bar</item>
</style>
Thats all you need for changing action bar color.
Plus if you want to change the status bar color just add the line:
<item name="android:colorPrimaryDark">#color/green_dark_action_bar</item>
Here is a screenshot taken from developer android site to make it more clear, and here is a link to read more about customizing the color palete
Another possibility of making.
actionBar.setBackgroundDrawable(new ColorDrawable(Color.parseColor("#0000ff")));
I can change ActionBar text color by using titleTextColor
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
<item name="titleTextColor">#333333</item>
</style>
Custom Color:
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/ColorPrimary</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#color/ColorPrimaryDark</item>
<!-- Customize your theme here. -->
</style>
Custom Style:
<style name="Theme.AndroidDevelopers" parent="android:style/Theme.Holo.Light">
<item name="android:selectableItemBackground">#drawable/ad_selectable_background</item>
<item name="android:popupMenuStyle">#style/MyPopupMenu</item>
<item name="android:dropDownListViewStyle">#style/MyDropDownListView</item>
<item name="android:actionBarTabStyle">#style/MyActionBarTabStyle</item>
<item name="android:actionDropDownStyle">#style/MyDropDownNav</item>
<item name="android:listChoiceIndicatorMultiple">#drawable/ad_btn_check_holo_light</item>
<item name="android:listChoiceIndicatorSingle">#drawable/ad_btn_radio_holo_light</item>
</style>
For More: Android ActionBar
As I was using AppCompatActivity above answers didn't worked for me. But the below solution worked:
In res/styles.xml
<resources>
<!-- Base application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
<!-- Customize your theme here. -->
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/colorPrimary</item>
</style>
PS: I've used colorPrimary instead of android:colorPrimary
in the style.xml add this code
<resources>
<style name="MyTheme" parent="#android:style/Theme.Holo.Light">
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/MyAction</item>
</style>
<style name="MyActionBarTheme" parent="#android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar">
<item name="android:background">#333333</item>
</style>
</resources>
Use this - http://jgilfelt.github.io/android-actionbarstylegenerator/
Good tool to customize your actionbar with a live preview in couple of minutes.
I applied a gradient background to my ActionBar. I can see it in the preview on Eclipse but when I run the app on my phone, the action bar vanishes completely. Why is this happening?
styles.xml
<resources>
<style name="AppTheme" parent="android:Theme.Holo.Light">
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/AppTheme.ActionBarStyle</item>
</style>
<style name="AppTheme.ActionBarStyle" parent="android:Theme.Holo.Light">
<item name="android:background">#drawable/bg_actionbar</item>
</style>
</resources>
try use to:
Drawable d=getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.background_image_name);
getActionBar().setBackgroundDrawable(d);
and see this question link