Android unable to change background color of ActionBar

Question

I'm trying to change the background color of my Actionbar, but after referencing the several other questions on this site I still can't get their solutions to work.

Styles.xml

<resources>

    <style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
        <item name="actionBarStyle">@style/ActionBar</item>
        <item name="android:windowActionBar">true</item>
    </style>

    <style name="ActionBar" parent="Widget.AppCompat.ActionBar.Solid">
        <item name="background">@color/light_blue_menu_bar</item>
    </style>
</resources>

colors.xml

<resources>
    ... 
    <color name="blue_semi_transparent_pressed">#80738ffe</color>
    <color name="light_blue_menu_bar">#87CEFA</color>
</resources>

manifest.xml

<application
        android:allowBackup="true"
        android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >

However the ActionBar doesn't appear in of my views. What am I missing?

EDIT

The solution was to add to styles.xml

<item name="android:windowActionBar">true</item>

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What version(s) of Android are you targeting? – PaulT May 14 '15 at 00:54 — PaulT, May 14 '15 at 00:54
i'm targeting 22, with a min of 19 – idclark May 14 '15 at 01:23 — idclark, May 14 '15 at 01:23

Yousef Zakher · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-14T11:20:52.080

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<style name="AppTheme" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
    <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/ActionBarStyle</item>
    <item name="actionBarStyle">@style/ActionBarStyle</item>
    <item name="android:windowActionBar">true</item>
</style>

<style name="ActionBarStyle" parent="Widget.AppCompat.ActionBar">
        <item name="background">@color/blue</item>
    <item name="android:background">@color/blue</item>
</style>

edited May 14 '15 at 11:20

answered May 14 '15 at 00:55

Yousef Zakher

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I updated my question to include the relevant part of my manifest.xml. I'm primarily using fragments, but my main activity does extend ActionBarActivity. – idclark May 14 '15 at 01:25
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What about activity tag theme? are you sure you are not using getActionBar().hide(); or requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE); also try true in AppTheme – Yousef Zakher May 14 '15 at 02:08
adding true will cause the ActionBar to appear, but it is the default Dark theme, not the light blue that I configured in the styles.xml – idclark May 14 '15 at 02:42
that change also generates the dialogue "Rendering Problems. Missing Styles. Is this the correct theme for the chosen layout? Use the theme combo box above the layout to choose a different layout... failed to find style with id 0x7fff0002 in current them" – idclark May 14 '15 at 02:51
So we fix the first issue to show your action bar i will edit the answer to show you full example how to set your color, – Yousef Zakher May 14 '15 at 11:17
Please upload another screen shot because i don't recognize pop up problem – Yousef Zakher May 14 '15 at 11:25

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 14 '15 at 10:47

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You can use this,

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

answered May 14 '15 at 10:47

Exigente05

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 14 '15 at 03:49

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Maybe you should edit styles.xml at values-v14 folder.Because your min version is 19.

answered May 14 '15 at 03:49

Cbibejs

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