Styling the actionbar in android

Question

i'am following the documentation on [developers.android][1] site to customize my action bar.

the problem is that the action bar doesn't accept the style i made. this is the file 14/style (i'am testing on 4.3 android version device):

<resources>

    <!-- the theme applied to the application or activity -->
    <style name="AppTheme"
        parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">
        <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/MyActionBar</item>
    </style>

    <!-- ActionBar styles -->
    <style name="MyActionBar"
        parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar.Solid.Inverse">
        <item name="android:background">@color/actionbar_color</item>
        <item name="android:icon">@drawable/ic_launcher</item>
    </style>

</resources> 

and this is a part of my manifest :

<application

        android:name="com.fakher.actualitefoot.controller.AppController"
        android:allowBackup="true"
        android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >

what must i do ? note : i'm using the support library, the application support api-9 [1]: https://developer.android.com/training/basics/actionbar/styling.html#AndroidThemes

Answer 1

I designed my Action Bar like the below: I created an custom_action_bar.xml

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="horizontal"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:gravity="center"
    android:background="#526e83"
    android:descendantFocusability="blocksDescendants">

    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/ContactImageId"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:src="@drawable/logo"
        android:paddingLeft="100dp"
        />

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="vertical"
        android:paddingTop="10dp">

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/CTS"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:textSize="15dp"
            android:textColor="#ffffff"
            android:text="CTS"
            android:textStyle="bold"/>

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/UserName"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:textSize="10dp"
            android:textColor="#ffffff"
            android:text="Welcome: HKH"/>

    </LinearLayout>

</LinearLayout>

then in onCreate in my activity i called this method:

public void customActionBar() {

    android.support.v7.app.ActionBar actionBar = getSupportActionBar();
    actionBar.setDisplayOptions(ActionBar.DISPLAY_HOME_AS_UP | ActionBar.DISPLAY_SHOW_CUSTOM | ActionBar.DISPLAY_SHOW_HOME);
    actionBar.setIcon(android.R.color.transparent);
    actionBar.setBackgroundDrawable(new ColorDrawable(Color.parseColor("#526e83")));
    View cView = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.custom_action_bar, null);
    actionBar.setCustomView(cView);
}

I hope this may help you in finding what you want