Style Android RatingBar stars without icons

Question

I have a RatingBar in Android application on which the stars take the primary color of the application. When I try to extend and change the colors like in this example from here it doesn't have any effect.

<style name="RatingBar" parent="Theme.AppCompat">  
    <item name="colorControlNormal">@color/indigo</item>
    <item name="colorControlActivated">@color/pink</item></style>  

Is there a way to customize this colors without setting progressDrawable

Here is the result with the primary color.

EDIT found the issue. I was trying the following lines

theme="@style/RatingBar"

or

style="@style/RatingBar"

but instead this should be used where I have forgotten the android keyword

The correct usage solved my issue:

android:theme="@style/RatingBar"

Answer 1

1.In your build.gradle add a latest app compact library.

dependencies {  
    compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:X.X.X' // where X.X.X version
}

2.Make your activity extend android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity.

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {  
    ...
}

3.Declare custom style in your styles.xml file.

<style name="RatingBar" parent="Theme.AppCompat">  
    <item name="colorControlNormal">@color/indigo</item>
    <item name="colorControlActivated">@color/pink</item></style>

4.Apply this style to your RatingBar via android:theme attribute.

   <RatingBar  
        android:theme="@style/RatingBar"
        android:rating="3"
        android:stepSize="0.5"
        android:numStars="5"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>