Actionbar button background

Question

I want to customize actionbar buttons with an image both for pressed and not pressed state. I put a drawable selector on android:icon with two states (pressed and not pressed).

Answer 1

I have fixed the problem putting

 <item name="android:selectableItemBackground">@color/transparent</item>

in styles.xml. I thought it would have affected all the select styles but it seems it affects just the actionbar.

Answer 2

I think the more specific way is to put this attribute in your application Theme:

    <item name="android:actionBarItemBackground">@android:color/transparent</item>

Also put this if you're using ActionBarSherlock:

    <item name="actionBarItemBackground">@android:color/transparent</item>