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

Have you tried the solution from user3225831 mentioned here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/21297231/1738838

ActionBar bar = getActionBar();
bar.setBackgroundDrawable(new ColorDrawable("COLOR")); 

Answer 2

Use simple one line code... Pass RGB values of the required color

getActionBar().setBackgroundDrawable(new ColorDrawable(Color.rgb(248, 248, 248)));

For Color codes, you can use this website: http://www.rapidtables.com/web/color/RGB_Color.htm

Answer 3

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.