Styling Android Action Bar

Question

I\'ve a newly created project and the first thing I want to do is add and style an action bar. I made it the way they tell in their official tutorials and even tried some other

Answer 1

Per the Using the Material Theme training, the Material theme (and AppCompat theme's which backport / use Material theming) use colorPrimary to color the action bar. Therefore your theme can be:

You'll find more details on how to theme using AppCompat / Material in the AppCompat v21 blog post and in this pro-tip