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
Add it to the root of the action bar. I had this problem.
<style name="ActionBar" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light">
<item name="actionBarStyle">@style/Widget.Styled.ActionBar</item>
<item name="actionMenuTextColor">@color/stdDarkBlueText</item>
</style>
<style name="Widget.Styled.ActionBar" parent="@style/Widget.AppCompat.Light.ActionBar">
<item name="titleTextStyle">@style/ActionBarTitleText</item>
<item name="subtitleTextStyle">@style/ActionBarSubTitleText</item>
</style>
<style name="ActionBarTitleText" parent="@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Widget.ActionBar.Title">
<item name="android:textColor">@color/stdDarkBlueText</item>
<item name="android:textSize">12sp</item>
</style>
<style name="ActionBarSubTitleText" parent="@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Widget.ActionBar.Subtitle">
<item name="android:textColor">@color/stdDarkBlueText</item>
<item name="android:textSize">12sp</item>
</style>
actionMenuTextColor - changes text color for the action bar text, it never worked when it was part of the Widget.Styled.ActionBar
, so I had to add it to the root. Other 2 attributes change title and subtitle of an action bar.
I found a way that works well with any flavor of ActionBar
(Sherlock, Compat, and Native):
Just use html to set the title, and specify the text color. For example, to set the ActionBar text color to red, simply do this:
getActionBar()/* or getSupportActionBar() */.setTitle(Html.fromHtml("<font color=\"red\">" + getString(R.string.app_name) + "</font>"));
You can also use the red hex code #FF0000
instead of the word red
. If you are having trouble with this, see Android Html.fromHtml(String) doesn't work for <font color='#'>text</font>.
Additionally, if you want to use a color resource, this code can be used to get the correct HEX String, and removing the alpha if needed (the font tag does not support alpha):
int orange = getResources().getColor(R.color.orange);
String htmlColor = String.format(Locale.US, "#%06X", (0xFFFFFF & Color.argb(0, Color.red(orange), Color.green(orange), Color.blue(orange))));
It's an old topic but for future readers, using ToolBar makes everything very easy:
Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.tool_bar);
toolbar.setTitle(R.string.app_name);
toolbar.setTitleTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.someColor));
setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
you can change color of any text by use html <font>
attribute directly in xml
files.
for example in strings.xml
:
<resources>
<string name = "app_name">
<html><font color="#001aff">Multi</font></html>
<html><font color="#ff0044">color</font></html>
<html><font color="#e9c309">Text </font></html>
</string>
</resources>
The ActionBar ID is not available directly, so you have to do little bit of hacking here.
int actionBarTitleId = Resources.getSystem().getIdentifier("action_bar_title", "id", "android");
if (actionBarTitleId > 0) {
TextView title = (TextView) findViewById(actionBarTitleId);
if (title != null) {
title.setTextColor(Color.RED);
}
}
The most straight-forward way is to do this in the styles.xml.
Google's template styles.xml currently generates the following:
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">
<!-- Customize your theme here. -->
<item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
<item name="colorAccent">@color/colorAccent</item>
</style>
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:
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">
<!-- Customize your theme here. -->
<item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
<item name="colorAccent">@color/colorAccent</item>
<item name="actionBarTheme">@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar</item>
</style>
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:
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">
<!-- Customize your theme here. -->
<item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
<item name="colorAccent">@color/colorAccent</item>
<item name="actionBarTheme">@style/AppTheme.AppBarOverlay</item>
</style>
<style name="AppTheme.AppBarOverlay" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar">
<item name="android:textColorPrimary">@android:color/darker_gray</item>
</style>
Note: This changes the color of the title and also the titles of any MenuItems displayed in the ActionBar.