Change ActionBar Background Color in code from Navigation List

Question

I want to change the color of the Action Bar background when the user chooses a selection in the Navigation List.

Currently, my code looks like this:

Answer 1

Try this:

myActivity.invalidateOptionsMenu();

Answer 2

Try using this code:

ColorDrawable colorDrawable = new ColorDrawable(Color.parseColor("#ffFEBB31"));
actionBar.setBackgroundDrawable(colorDrawable); 

Answer 3

I was having this same problem.

For Xamarin Users in Visual Studio or the like.

Please paste this just after the SetContentView(Resource.Layou...... in the activity class.

// Setting ActionBar (Toolbar) background color natively var actionBar = this.ActionBar; actionBar.SetBackgroundDrawable(new ColorDrawable(Color.Black));

You may change it as you deem necessary of do more on the actionBar variable.

Thanks hope this helps.