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"));