how to change HomeButton Hilight Color when press

Question

i use Sherlock Actionbar

1, i wanna change Home Button BG when i press from blue to Red

2, i wanna change HomeAsUp icon (white arrow) any idea ?

Home button

pressed

here is created this actionbar code

extends SherlockFragmentActivity

public ActionBar actionBar;

this.actionBar = this.getSupportActionBar();
this.actionBar.setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(true);
this.actionBar.setHomeButtonEnabled(true);
this.actionBar.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);

Answer 1

You can change this by specifying your own actionBarItemBackground attribute in your theme.

For example,

<style name="Theme.MyTheme" parent="Theme.Sherlock">
    <item name="android:actionBarItemBackground">@drawable/my_cool_drawable</item>
    <item name="actionBarItemBackground">@drawable/my_cool_drawable</item>
</style>

and then specify Theme.MyTheme in the manifest for your activity.

Answer 2

usually when you want to create this behavior in Android, you need to create a new selector file (xml in /drawable folder).

in that file what you want to do is choose the different states for the button and choose the different images for them.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

    <item android:drawable="@drawable/pressed_image" android:state_pressed="true"></item>
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/regular_image"></item>

</selector>

edit:

you need to do this in the actionbarSherlock library of course.