Sherlock Actionbar change menu background color

Question

I need to change the background of menu items only. When I tried with actionBarItemBackground, it changes the background of application logo [As u can see in the attachment] also. Any help or link will be appreciated. enter image description here

You want to change the brackground of your icons or of the whole actionbar? — schlingel, Sep 18 '13 at 11:35
Only the background of menu item. Please see the image attached. — subair_a, Sep 18 '13 at 11:38
Check this answer, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11397407/styling-action-item-background-actionbarsherlock — Basim Sherif, Sep 18 '13 at 11:58
@BasimSherif That answer also saying to use actionBarItemBackground. I have tried this but that didnt work for me. — subair_a, Sep 18 '13 at 12:06

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 18 '13 at 12:17

2

You can use a custom layout for your actionbar item like so:

    <menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
         <item android:id="@id/item_text"
            android:showAsAction="always"
            android:actionLayout="@layout/action_text"/>
    </menu>

This is styleable as you wish. Another possibility would be adding only the ID (item_text in the example) and set the background like so:

 @Override
 public boolean onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
      MenuItem item = menu.findItem(R.id.item_text);
      item.getActionView().setBackgroundDrawable(new ColorDrawable(/* your color */));

      return super.onPrepareOptionsMenu(menu);
 }

answered Sep 18 '13 at 12:17

schlingel

8,560
7
34
62

I am getting a crash when I tried onPrepareOptionsMenu() java.lang.NullPointerException at com.demo.customtabs.TabActivity.onCreateOptionsMenu(RDCTabActivity.java:71) at android.support.v4.app.Watson.onCreatePanelMenu(Watson.java:44) at com.actionbarsherlock.ActionBarSherlock.callbackCreateOptionsMenu(ActionBarSherlock.java:560) at com.actionbarsherlock.internal.ActionBarSherlockCompat.preparePanel(ActionBarSherlockCompat.java:466) at com.actionbarsherlock.internal.ActionBarSherlockCompat.dispatchInvalidateOptionsMenu(ActionBarSherlockCompat.java:265) at – subair_a Sep 18 '13 at 12:32
Did you try to actually debug your crash? – schlingel Sep 18 '13 at 12:33
Do your usual view styling. It should work that way. Maybe it's easier to just use a custom layout. – schlingel Sep 18 '13 at 12:43
I couldn't get this to work on Android 4.0+. Here's what worked for me: http://stackoverflow.com/a/20077381/56285 – Jonik Nov 19 '13 at 18:04

Sherlock Actionbar change menu background color

1 Answers1

Linked