Custom (gradient) background of ActionBar Compat

Question

I am using Action Bar Compat so that my action bar with navigation drawer was backward compatible down to API level 9 and I want to change the background of the action bar.

Answer 1

This is an example for the action bar xml:

Instead of using android:shape="line" , in order to avoid DeadObjectException , you can set the android:angle to 180 or 0 - the effect will be the same, that is a horizontal line gradient.