android-actionbar-compat

I am using appcompat v7 library to support action bars in api level 8 and up. I am trying to change the color of title text of action bar. Color of title text is changing in GingerBread but when I run the app on my phone with JellyBean the color doesn't change. On GingerBread Title Color changes to Red: On JellyBean it remains black: Here are my styles.xml: styles.xml: <resources> <style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light"> <item name="actionBarStyle">@style/ActionBarStyle</item> </style> <style name="ActionBarStyle" parent="@style/Widget.AppCompat.Light.ActionBar.Solid">

I have Action Bar in my application. I am adding action items using menu.xml. I am using action bar-compat as my support library. I observed a weird issue where my action items are getting duplicated. I am finding this issue randomly when leave my device idle or work with other applications. Please find the screen shot and my code below: private LoginWebActivity mContext; private final String TAG = "LoginFragment"; // for metrics private String mPageNameSignIn = "signin"; @Override public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) { mView =

I'm triying to migrate my app from actionbarsherlock to Google's actionbarcompat, but ActionBarFragmentActivity does not exist. Do I have to use ActionBarActivity or there is another way? Thanks in advance, Diego. Look here. This should help you out. http://android-developers.blogspot.in/2013/08/actionbarcompat-and-io-2013-app-source.html An Excerpt: Extend Activity classes from ActionBarCompat: ActionBarCompat contains one Activity class which all of your Activity classes should extend: ActionBarActivity. This class itself extends from FragmentActivity so you can continue to use Fragments in

I try to test a Activity which uses ActionBarActivity (from the appcompat library). I need a custom Application to be able to manipulate the DI system to load my test service instead of the real service. If I have my test written and call startActivity I get the following error: java.lang.IllegalStateException: You need to use a Theme.AppCompat theme (or descendant) with this activity. If I call launchActivityWithIntent the Activity starts without any problems but It is using my Real Application class instead of the Mocked Application class. Any ideas how I can fix that or how I can execute

I am trying to change the text color of a action menu item on the action bar. Using app compat. Also the overflow icon doesnt change too. Here is my custom styled styles.xml files. res/values/styles.xml <style name="AppTheme" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light"> <!-- Setting values in the default namespace affects API levels 7-13 --> <item name="actionBarStyle">@style/MyStyledActionBar</item> </style> <style name="MyStyledActionBar" parent="@style/Widget.AppCompat.Light.ActionBar"> <!-- Setting values in the default namespace affects API levels 7-13 --> <item name="background">@drawable/bg