ActionBar text color

Question

how can I change the text color of the ActionBar? I\'ve inherited the Holo Light Theme, I\'m able to change the background of the ActionBar but I don\'t find out what is the

Answer 1

The most straight-forward way is to do this in the styles.xml.

Google's template styles.xml currently generates the following:

If you add one more line before the closing tag, as shown, that will change the text color to what it should be with a Dark ActionBar:

If you want to customize the color to something else, you can either specify your own color in colors.xml or even use a built-in color from Android using the android:textColorPrimary attribute:

Note: This changes the color of the title and also the titles of any MenuItems displayed in the ActionBar.