I want to customize my ActionBar. My Theme looks as below:
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.MaterialComponents.DayNight">
<item name="actionBarStyle">@style/MyActionBar</item>
</style>
<style name="MyActionBar" parent="@style/ThemeOverlay.MaterialComponents.ActionBar">
<item name="background">@drawable/actionBarBackground</item>
</style>
In values folder:
<drawable name="actionBarBackground">#FFFFFFFF</drawable>
In values-night folder:
<drawable name="actionBarBackground">#FF000000</drawable>
Not sure why my ActionBar background colour doesn't change accordingly. I have tried to change my theme in different other ways as well but nothing works. Here are my other tries:
Instead of actionBarStyle
, I used actionBarTheme
.
<item name="actionBarTheme">@style/MyActionBar</item>
I also tried using colorPrimary
.
<item name="colorPrimary">@color/actionBarBackground</item>
Am I missing something?
Since you are using a Theme.MaterialComponents.DayNight
app theme the ActionBar
background color is defined by default by the colorPrimary
attribute.
<style name="AppThemeActionBar" parent="Theme.MaterialComponents.DayNight">
<item name="colorPrimary">@color/mycolor</item>
</style>
where mycolor
is define in res/values/colors.xml
<resources>
<color name="mycolor">#xxxxxx</color>
...
</resources>
You can also customize the background color using the actionBarStyle
attribute in your app theme.
Something like:
<style name="AppThemeActionBar" parent="Theme.MaterialComponents.DayNight">
<item name="actionBarStyle">@style/Custom.ActionBar</item>
...
</style>
where:
<style name="Custom.ActionBar" parent="Widget.MaterialComponents.Light.ActionBar.Solid">
<item name="background">@color/mycolor</item>
</style>
Otherwise you can use the actionBarTheme
attribute to override the background color:
<style name="AppThemeActionBar" parent="Theme.MaterialComponents.DayNight">
<item name="actionBarTheme">@style/ThemeOverlay.ActionBar</item>
...
</style>
<style name="ThemeOverlay.ActionBar" parent="">
<item name="colorPrimary">@color/mycolor</item>
</style>
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