ActionBar title weight won't be applied

Question

I'm currently trying to set the font weight of my ActionBar title to bold, with the following code, but it isn't working as expected. What am i doing wrong?

<style name="dActionBar" parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.ActionBar">
        <item name="android:background">#DDDDDD</item>
        <item name="android:textColor">#FFFFFF</item>
        <item name="android:textStyle">bold</item>
        <item name="android:foreground">#000000</item>
    </style>

The background color and so on is working pretty well.

are you using custom font? – Metalhead1247 Sep 22 '13 at 12:51 — Metalhead1247, Sep 22 '13 at 12:51
Hello, thank's for your reply. No, just the standard font. – Lukas Sep 22 '13 at 12:53 — Lukas, Sep 22 '13 at 12:53

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 22 '13 at 14:05

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not all Android fonts have bold style,for example Chinese words must use setFakeBoldText

        final int actionBarTitle = getResources().getIdentifier("action_bar_title", "id", "android");
        final TextView title = (TextView) getActivity().getWindow().findViewById(actionBarTitle);
        title.getPaint().setFakeBoldText(true);

answered Sep 22 '13 at 14:05

Jiang Qi

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This worked for me. The strange thing is, that the content of the title was just a normal english word. Although it works now :) Thanks! – Lukas Sep 22 '13 at 14:09

ActionBar title weight won't be applied

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