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

I recommend you use this tools to generate ActionBar styles:

http://jgilfelt.github.io/android-actionbarstylegenerator/

Good Luck!

Answer 2

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:

<style name="AppTheme" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/blue</item>
</style>

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