Styling ActionMode ActionBar in Android 5.0 Lollipop (with AppCompat)
Solution 1
Just add these two lines to the theme:
<item name="actionModeBackground">@color/theme_primary_dark</item>
<item name="actionBarPopupTheme">@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light</item>
Solution 2
This might also be helpful in addition to @Andrey Shcherbakov's answer if you want to have more control of each individual color.
<!-- action bar title text color, icon color (ie: back icon, icons when editing text)-->
<item name="android:textColorPrimary">#FFFF00</item>
<!-- action bar background color-->
<item name="android:colorBackground">#444400</item>
<!-- color of line under contextual action bar-->
<item name="colorControlActivated">#00CC00</item>
Andrey Shcherbakov
Updated on June 03, 2022Comments
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Andrey Shcherbakov almost 2 years
I used this tutorial to facelift my Holo app for Lollipop: http://android-developers.blogspot.ru/2014/10/appcompat-v21-material-design-for-pre.html
What I have:
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Theme
<style name="MyTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar"> <item name="windowActionModeOverlay">true</item> <item name="colorPrimary">@color/theme_primary</item> <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/theme_primary_dark</item> <item name="colorAccent">@color/theme_accent</item> </style>
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Toolbar layout
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto" android:id="@+id/toolbar" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize" android:background="?attr/colorPrimary" app:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar" app:popupTheme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light" />
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Activity inherited from ActionBarActivity with a ListFragment fragment in the multi-choice mode
getListView().setChoiceMode(ListView.CHOICE_MODE_MULTIPLE_MODAL);
Result: The toolbar is OK. It uses the sepcified theme colors, but the ActionBar used by the ListFragment in the ActionMode (activated by tap-and-hold a list item) has the standard Dark.ActionBar colors. Also the popup menu of the action bar uses the dark theme.
I tried all the SO tricks, but still cannot solve that. I will appreciate any help.
BTW. I found that the dark colors of the ActionBar are caused by the toolbar's
app:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar"
, but have no idea how solve this, because this attribute is needed for the correct toolbar appearance. -
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Sandra over 9 yearsAfter a lot of time spent on this problem, this actually works. Thx!
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thisbytes over 9 yearsWasted a lot of time trying to get this to work, only to realize that, in order to get this to work in AppCompat's Toolbar, you will have to remove the "android:" portion of the item's name. Hoping that this helps any other people reading this thread :)
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Admin over 8 yearsthanks! what about status bar color? it gets white when
actionmode
is showing?