Change ActionBarSherlock background color

Question

I\'m trying to implement ActionBarSherlock because I was told it is relatively easy to implement and customize. I\'ve found it was pretty easy to implement, but I\'m trying

Answer 1

I just used

getSupportActionBar().setBackgroundDrawable(new ColorDrawable(Color.parseColor("#00853c")));

It changed the background color. Hope it helps.

Answer 2

The code mentioned by Jake Wharton is true. But when applying the code to the styles.xml may not work if you have minSDK<11 because android:actionBarStyle is supported in API-11+

To solve that error:

Make a folder of values-v11 in your res folder and create the XML file as mentioned above.

Answer 3

The action bar background color is defined in a style for the action bar, not in the theme itself. You'll need to do something like this:

<style name="Theme.MyTheme" parent="Theme.Sherlock.ForceOverflow">
    <item name="actionBarStyle">@style/Widget.MyTheme.ActionBar</item>
    <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/Widget.MyTheme.ActionBar</item>
</style>

<style name="Widget.MyTheme.ActionBar" parent="Widget.Sherlock.ActionBar">
    <item name="android:background">#ff000000</item>
    <item name="background">#ff000000</item>
</style>

Be careful using colors defined in XML. ColorDrawable did not respect it's view bounds on pre-Honeycomb so if you use tab navigation with a separate background for the stacked tab view you will have problems.