how to change the color of actionbar in android

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i want to change the color of ActionBar into blue. In order to acheive this i changed the styles.xml as

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<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
        <!-- Customize your theme here. -->.
        <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/MyActionBar</item>
    </style>

    <style name="MyActionBar" parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar">
        <item name="android:background">#0000FF</item>
    </style>

and changed the android:theme in manifest.xml to MyActionBar
on running the app i get an error :
java.lang.IllegalStateException: You need to use a Theme.AppCompat theme (or descendant) with this activity.

where have i made the mistake. please need guidence

Posted 12-Jul-15 21:32pm

Rahul Ramakrishnan

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Peter Leow · Answer 1 · 2015-07-13T02:55:00

Solution 1

Check this out: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21814825/you-need-to-use-a-theme-appcompat-theme-or-descendant-with-this-activity[^]

Posted 13-Jul-15 2:55am

Peter Leow

wseng · Answer 2 · 2015-12-29T06:26:00

<resources>

    <style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">

        <item name="colorPrimary">@color/yourColorResource</item>
        <!-- Customize your theme here. -->
    </style>

</resources>

Instead of @color/yourColorResource, you can directly use a color's hexcode or Android's pre-defined resources.