How do I change the text of the Material Design ActionBar?

Question

I'm playing around a bit to make an Android app using the new Material Design, but I can't figure out how to change the color of the text on the ActionBar.

I have this:

<style name="AppTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme.Material.Light">
    <item name="android:colorPrimary">#ff3d00</item>
    <item name="android:colorPrimaryDark">#dd2c00</item>
    <item name="android:colorAccent">#ff3d00</item>
</style>

But that looks like this:

I don't really like the black text on the orange background. I tried to do this:

<style name="AppTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme.Material">
    <item name="android:colorPrimary">#ff3d00</item>
    <item name="android:colorPrimaryDark">#dd2c00</item>
    <item name="android:colorAccent">#ff3d00</item>
</style>

And that looks like this:

As you can see, the color of the ActionBar text did change, but the background became grey, which I don't like.

How exactly am I supposed to do this? Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

I think in this case it's enough to change the style to Theme.Material.Light.DarkActionBar. You'll get the light interface elements, but a 'dark' ActionBar with a light title text.