Change Background Color of AppCompat Action Bar

Question

I am in a fragment and I want to change the actionbar color and view background color when the user clicks on a button. The code I currently have below causes the action bar to go gray no matter what color the user chooses.

private void changeColor( int colorId ) {
    ActionBar actionBar =  ((ActionBarActivity )getActivity()).getSupportActionBar();
    actionBar.setBackgroundDrawable( new ColorDrawable( colorId ) );
    this.getView().setBackgroundColor( getResources().getColor( colorId ) );
}

I have the actionbar themed to be blue in my styles.xml not sure if that has any effect. If you have any suggestion please let me know.

Thanks, Nathan

Solution: Had to change:

actionBar.setBackgroundDrawable( new ColorDrawable( colorId ) );

To:

actionBar.setBackgroundDrawable( new ColorDrawable( getResources().getColor( colorId ) ) );

Answer 1

If i understand your question correctly that you want to change the color base on user intervention, try this instead.

public void setActionBarColor(int parsedColor){
    ActionBar mActionBar = getSupportActionBar();
    mActionBar.setBackgroundDrawable(new ColorDrawable(parsedColor));
    mActionBar.setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);
    mActionBar.setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(true);
}

using this in a fragment

// check if instance of activity is MyActivity just an example
MyActivity mA = ((MyActivity)getActivity());
mA.setActionBarColor(Color.parseColor("#FFA2C13E"));

hope it helps :)

PS: im using ActionBarActivity