change action bar title color Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar android

Question

I wants to change the action bar title color to white in android . and i am using theme in values Theme.AppCompat.Light and values-14 Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar
I have tried so far in values folder :

<style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">
    <item name="actionBarStyle">@style/MyActionBar</item>
</style>

<style name="MyActionBar" parent="@style/Widget.AppCompat.Light.ActionBar.Solid.Inverse">
    <item name="android:textColor">@android:color/white</item>
</style>

and values -14 folder

  <style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
    <item name="actionBarStyle">@style/MyActionBar</item>
</style>

<!-- ActionBar styles -->
<style name="MyActionBar" parent="@style/Widget.AppCompat.Light.ActionBar.Solid.Inverse">
    <item name="android:textColor">@android:color/white</item>
</style>

but ActionBar title color is not changing.

Solution 1

You can specify the background color of the ActionBar by using the colorPrimary attribute; something like the following:

    <style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">
    <item name="colorPrimary">@android:color/white</item>
    </style>

The above is a special tag created for AppCompat; you will notice that the android: namespace is omitted.

Solution 2

If you are using Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar do

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar  xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
    android:background="@color/background_material_dark"
    app:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar"
    app:popupTheme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light"/>

Comments

[Jason Hu]

The question was changing the text color not the background color. Yes you can set colorPrimary on AppCompat similar to Material action bar, but you can't set textColorPrimary in the same regard, which is why he is asking the question.

[sahil shekhawat]

Question asks the method to change actionbar text color, not the color of action bar itself.