Contextual Actionbar styles

Question

I\'m looking for style information on the Contextual Action bar (CAB). I just need to change the colour of the text in fact..

Answer 1

If you're starting the contextual action mode manually, you can call setTheme() with a new theme before launching it (maybe Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar if you're trying to avoid the black-on-black text issue). This will not affect the theme of the current activity if you've already set the activity's content view.

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    setContentView(R.layout.my_activity_layout);

    // these lines can occur anywhere so long as you've already 
    // called "setContentView()" on the activity. The theme
    // you set here will apply to the action mode, but not to 
    // the activity.
    setTheme(R.style.Theme_AppCompat_Light_DarkActionBar);
    startSupportActionMode(myActionModeCallback);

}