AppCompat style background propagated to the Image within the ToolBar

Question

Context

I\'m using the newest AppCompat v7 lib (21.0.0) and I have migrated my app from ActionBar to ToolBar

Problem

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Answer 1

You should not be using theme like that:

• style = local to the Toolbar
• theme = global to everything inflated in the Toolbar

Workaround 2, as you call it, is kind of the correct way. If you want to extract some values into a style, you can do it as so:

Style: