How to customize Action Bar Style?
Solution 1
Just find proper icons for your actionbar and customize it... and then make changes in your...
You Can Do Following For Changing Icons Of Actionbar
style.xml
<style name="Widget.ActionButton.Overflow" parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.ActionButton.Overflow">
<item name="android:src">@drawable/ic_action_overflow</item>
</style>
<style name="Your.Theme" parent="@android:style/Theme.Holo.Light.DarkActionBar">
<item name="android:actionOverflowButtonStyle">@style/Widget.ActionButton.Overflow</item>
<item name="android:homeAsUpIndicator">@drawable/my_fancy_up_indicator</item>
</style>
Solution 2
check out this page on android help https://developer.android.com/training/basics/actionbar/styling.html
When supporting Android 3.0 and higher only,
you can define the action bar's background like this: res/values/themes.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<!-- the theme applied to the application or activity -->
<style name="CustomActionBarTheme"
parent="@android:style/Theme.Holo.Light.DarkActionBar">
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/MyActionBar</item>
</style>
<!-- ActionBar styles -->
<style name="MyActionBar"
parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar.Solid.Inverse">
<item name="android:background">@drawable/actionbar_background</item>
</style>
</resources>
Then apply your theme to your entire app or individual activities:
<application android:theme="@style/CustomActionBarTheme" ... />
For Android 2.1 and higher
When using the Support Library, the same theme as above must instead look like this:
res/values/themes.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<!-- the theme applied to the application or activity -->
<style name="CustomActionBarTheme"
parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/MyActionBar</item>
<!-- Support library compatibility -->
<item name="actionBarStyle">@style/MyActionBar</item>
</style>
<!-- ActionBar styles -->
<style name="MyActionBar"
parent="@style/Widget.AppCompat.Light.ActionBar.Solid.Inverse">
<item name="android:background">@drawable/actionbar_background</item>
<!-- Support library compatibility -->
<item name="background">@drawable/actionbar_background</item>
</style>
</resources>
Then apply your theme to your entire app or individual activities:
<application android:theme="@style/CustomActionBarTheme" ... />
user3458008
Updated on July 20, 2022Comments
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user3458008 almost 2 years
How to change the color of Action Bar Back Button and Action bar Menu Icon(Image attached). I have the following style code(below), using which I customized the Text but I'm not able to completely customize the Action Bar.
Below is the Style code which I have used :
<style name="MyCustomTheme" parent="Theme.Sherlock.Light"> <item name="actionBarStyle">@style/ActionBar</item> <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/ActionBar</item> </style> <style name="ActionBar" parent="Widget.Sherlock.ActionBar"> <item name="background">@drawable/bg_header</item> -----------(1) <item name="android:background">@drawable/bg_header</item> <item name="android:titleTextStyle">@style/customTextAppearance.Sherlock.Widget.ActionBar.Title</item> ----(2) <item name="titleTextStyle">@style/customTextAppearance.Sherlock.Widget.ActionBar.Title</item> <item name="android:homeAsUpIndicator">@style/customTextAppearance.Sherlock.Widget.ActionBar.Title</item> </style> <style name="customTextAppearance.Sherlock.Widget.ActionBar.Title" parent="TextAppearance.Sherlock.Widget.ActionBar.Title"> <item name="android:textSize">18dp</item> <item name="android:textColor">#ffffff</item> <item name="android:shadowColor">#ffffff</item> <item name="android:shadowDy">3</item> <item name="android:textStyle">bold</item> </style>
Your help will be appreciated, Thank you.
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Pragnesh Ghoda シ over 9 yearsyou can refer this : stackoverflow.com/questions/22046903/…
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Illegal Argument over 9 years
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Ankita over 9 yearsyour app supports which versions of android?
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Ankita over 9 yearsI just gave you a overview about how to get a custom bar for the different versions.. anyways glad that you got your answer.