Android - ActionBar Compat Style

Question

In my app I'm using the ActionBarCompat Theme.AppCompat (like holo but backwards compatable) style but I'd like to use the Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar style for the action bar only.

So far I've tried numerous things in xml,

<item name="actionBarStyle">@style/Widget.AppCompat.Light.ActionBar.Solid.Inverse</item>

but it doesn't change the ActionBar at all. Any Suggestions?

Thank you

Answer 1

Try to use

<item name="actionBarStyle">@style/Widget.AppCompat.Light.ActionBar.Solid.Inverse</item>
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/Widget.AppCompat.Light.ActionBar.Solid.Inverse</item>

first line for preICS platforms, second for ICS. or you can split this style between values and values-v14 folders