Styling Action Bar Text Color - Android

Question

<style name="Theme.RateItTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme.Holo.Light">
    <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/MyActionBar</item>
    <item name="android:titleTextStyle">@style/MyActionBar.Text</item>
</style>

<style name="MyActionBar" parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar">
    <item name="android:background">#2E495E</item>
</style>

<style name="MyActionBar.Text" parent="@android:style/TextAppearance.Holo.Widget.ActionBar.Title">
    <item name="android:textColor">#ECECEC</item>
</style>

I have been able to change the background, but not the text color. Or the overflow menu "three dots". My code is above.

Answer 1

You need to move your titleTextStyle attribute into your MyActionBar style. Do you understand why it's supposed to be placed there rather than where you had it originally?

<style name="MyActionBar" parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar">
    <item name="android:background">#2E495E</item>
    <item name="android:titleTextStyle">@style/MyActionBar.Text</item>
</style>

As far as changing the Overflow icon, I think that's what mean when you say "three dots", I've already written a post about that here.

Answer 2

Try this

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- For honeycomb and up -->
<resources>

    <style name="Theme.RateItTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme.Holo.Light">
        <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/MyActionBar</item>
        <item name="android:actionMenuTextColor">@color/actionBarText</item>
    </style>

    <style name="MyActionBar" parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar">
        <item name="android:background">#2E495E</item>
        <item name="android:titleTextStyle">@style/MyActionBar.Text</item>
    </style>

    <style name="MyActionBar.Text" parent="@android:style/TextAppearance">
        <item name="android:textColor">#ECECEC</item>
    </style>

</resources>