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

Use simple one line code... Pass RGB values of the required color

getActionBar().setBackgroundDrawable(new ColorDrawable(Color.rgb(248, 248, 248)));

For Color codes, you can use this website: http://www.rapidtables.com/web/color/RGB_Color.htm