ActionBar background image

Question

I\'ve inherited the Holo Light Theme and customized the background of the ActionBar with the following:

Content of styles.xml

Answer 1

Ok, thanks to Romain Guy on #android-dev IRC channel, it's a known bug on honeycomb / Android 3.0 which will be fixed on the next release. Since then, the only solution is do it from code, and it works :-)

 final ActionBar actionBar = getActionBar(); 
 BitmapDrawable background = new BitmapDrawable (BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(), R.raw.actionbar_background)); 
 background.setTileModeX(android.graphics.Shader.TileMode.REPEAT); 
 actionBar.setBackgroundDrawable(background);