Why is android activity action bar title black?

Question

When I made projects using Android Studio before, the activity action bar title was white by default. I created a new project with same settings as the previous projects (API level 11), but the default color of the activity title color is black. I didn't change anything at all, this is a fresh project. I tried using styles but nothing is working.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 09 '17 at 18:42

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The action bar title color for a new project depends on the default theme used.In case of dark action bar the title color is white,please go and check the theme used in manifest.

answered Sep 09 '17 at 18:42

Anshul

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It uses the default theme, which is this. ` ` \n I'm sorry for the messy code. Don't know how to format it in this site. – Cs_Is_Better Sep 09 '17 at 18:56
try replacing "Theme.AppCompat.Light" by "Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar" when your action bar theme is dark the title automatically gets light & for adding any code on here just give four spaces before the line it will get formatted – Anshul Sep 09 '17 at 19:09

mohammadreza khalifeh · Answer 2 · 2017-09-10T09:35:00.267

in order to change the color of actionbar title you can you can use this code in your class :

actionBar.setTitle(Html.fromHtml("<font color='#ffffff'>ActionBarTitle </font>"));
// to choose white

or change your actionbar style in res/values/styles.xml file:

<resources>
    <style name="MyCustomTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme.Holo.Light">
        <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/MyActionBarTheme</item>
    </style>

    <style name="MyActionBarTheme" parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar">
        <item name="android:background">ANY_HEX_COLOR_CODE</item>
        <item name="android:titleTextStyle">@style/MyTheme.ActionBar.TitleTextStyle</item>
        <item name="titleTextStyle">@style/MyTheme.ActionBar.TitleTextStyle</item>
    </style>
</resources>

keep in mind you should change the style you chose before in manifest.xml for your app

Where is `MyTheme` found? Should it already be there? I'm getting errors on it. — Cs_Is_Better, Sep 09 '17 at 19:06

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 09 '17 at 18:41

If you want to change it programmatically below is the code.

The ActionBar ID is not available directly, so you have to do little bit of hacking here.

 int actionBarTitleId = Resources.getSystem().getIdentifier("action_bar_title", "id", "android");
if (actionBarTitleId > 0) {
    TextView title = (TextView) findViewById(actionBarTitleId);
    if (title != null) {
        title.setTextColor(Color.RED);
    }
}

Why is android activity action bar title black?

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