How to change programmatically background color of action bar items

Question

It is easy to set a default color of the items background in action bar by setting:

@drawable/action_bar         


        

Answer 1

I have found a simple workaround of this problem. You can set transparent color to the background of action bar item. Then changing color of the action bar will change background of the item. I don't see possibility to change item color without recreating an the activity.