Set title background color

Question

In my android application I want the standard basic title bar to change color   To change the text color you have setTitleColor int color   is there a way to change the background color of the bar

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There is another way to change the background color, however it is a hack and might fail on future versions of Android if the View hierarchy of the Window and its title is changed. However, the code won't crash, just miss setting the wanted color, in such a case.

In your Activity, like onCreate, do:

View titleView = getWindow().findViewById(android.R.id.title);
if (titleView != null) {
  ViewParent parent = titleView.getParent();
  if (parent != null && (parent instanceof View)) {
    View parentView = (View)parent;
    parentView.setBackgroundColor(Color.rgb(0x88, 0x33, 0x33));
  }
}

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Try with the following code  View titleView   getWindow   findViewById android R id title       if  titleView    null          ViewParent parent   titleView getParent          if  parent    null  amp  amp   parent instanceof View             View parentView    View parent          parentView setBackgroundColor Color RED                   also use this link its very useful   http   nathanael hevenet com android-dev-changing-the-title-bar-background

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Take a peek in platforms android-2 1 data res layout screen xml of the SDK  It seems to define a title there  You can frequently examine layouts like this and borrow the              style   android attr windowTitleStyle  styles which you can then use and override in your own TextViews   You may be able to even select the title for direct tweaking by doing   TextView title    TextView findViewById android R id title

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I suppose no  You can create titleless activity and create your own title bar in activity layout   Check this  Line 63 and below    getWindow   setFeatureInt Window FEATURE CUSTOM TITLE  R layout custom title 1    sets customview instead of default title view

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Paste this code after setContentView or into onCreate   if you have a color code use this    getSupportActionBar   setBackgroundDrawable new ColorDrawable Color parseColor   408ed4        if you want a specific code from Color library use this    getSupportActionBar   setBackgroundDrawable new ColorDrawable Color WHITE

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This thread will get you started with building your own title bar in a xml file and using it in your activities  Edit  Here is a brief summary of the content of the link above - This is just to set the color of the text and the background of the title bar - no resizing  no buttons  just the simpliest sample   res layout mytitle xml - This is the view that will represent the title bar   lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt   lt TextView   xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android    android id    id myTitle    android text  This is my new title    android layout width  fill parent    android layout height  fill parent    android textColor   color titletextcolor       gt    res values themes xml - We want to keep the default android theme and just need to change the background color of the title background  So we create a theme that inherits the default theme and set the background style to our own style    lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt   lt resources gt       lt style name  customTheme  parent  android Theme  gt            lt item name  android windowTitleBackgroundStyle  gt  style WindowTitleBackground lt  item gt          lt  style gt    lt  resources gt    res values styles xml - This is where we set the theme to use the color we want for the title background   lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt   lt resources gt       lt style name  WindowTitleBackground  gt                lt item name  android background  gt  color titlebackgroundcolor lt  item gt                          lt  style gt   lt  resources gt    res values colors xml - Set here the color you want   lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt   lt resources gt          lt color name  titlebackgroundcolor  gt  3232CD lt  color gt       lt color name  titletextcolor  gt  FFFF00 lt  color gt   lt  resources gt    In the AndroidMANIFEST xml  set the theme attribute either in the application  for the whole application  or in the activity  only this activity  tags   lt activity android name   CustomTitleBar  android theme   style customTheme        From the Activity  called CustomTitleBar      Override public void onCreate Bundle savedInstanceState        super onCreate savedInstanceState            requestWindowFeature Window FEATURE CUSTOM TITLE           setContentView R layout main           getWindow   setFeatureInt Window FEATURE CUSTOM TITLE  R layout mytitle

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protected void onCreate Bundle savedInstanceState                super onCreate savedInstanceState       setContentView R layout activity main       View titleView   getWindow   findViewById android R id title       if  titleView    null          ViewParent parent   titleView getParent          if  parent    null  amp  amp   parent instanceof View             View parentView    View parent          parentView setBackgroundColor Color RED                   on above code you can try you can use title instead of titlebar this will affect on all activity in your application

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Thanks for this clear explanation  however I would like to add a bit more to your answer by asking a linked question  don t really want to do a new post as this one is the basement on my question    I m declaring my titlebar in a Superclass from which  all my other activities are children  to have to change the color of the bar only once  I would like to also add an icon and change the text in the bar  I have done some testing  and managed to change either one or the other but not both at the same time  using setFeatureDrawable and setTitle   The ideal solution would be of course to follow the explanation in the thread given in the link  but as i m declaring in a superclass  i have an issue due to the layout in setContentView and the R id myCustomBar  because if i remember well i can call setContentView only once      EDIT Found my answer    For those who  like me  like to work with superclasses because it s great for getting a menu available everywhere in an app  it works the same here   Just add this to your superclass   requestWindowFeature Window FEATURE CUSTOM TITLE       setContentView R layout customtitlebar       getWindow   setFeatureInt Window FEATURE CUSTOM TITLE  R layout customtitlebar       customTitleText    TextView  findViewById R id customtitlebar      you have to declare the textview as protected class variable   And then the power of this is that  everywhere in you app  if for instance all your activities are children of this class   you just have to call   customTitleText setText  Whatever you want in title      and your titlebar will be edited   The XML associated in my case is  R layout customtitlebar      lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt   lt LinearLayout xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android  android orientation  horizontal  android layout width  fill parent  android layout height  fill parent  android background   color background  gt   lt ImageView android layout width  25px  android layout height  25px      android src   drawable icontitlebar  gt  lt  ImageView gt   lt TextView android id    id customtitlebar      android layout width  wrap content  android layout height  fill parent      android text    android textColor   color textcolor  android textStyle  bold      android background   color background  android padding  3px    gt   lt  LinearLayout gt

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you can use it     toolbar setTitleTextColor getResources   getColor R color white

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This code helps to change the background of the title bar programmatically in Android  Change the color to any color you want   public void onCreate Bundle savedInstanceState         super onCreate savedInstanceState       setContentView R layout your layout       getActionBar   setBackgroundDrawable new ColorDrawable Color parseColor   1c2833

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I have done this by changing style color values in  res  -   values  -   colors xml    This will change colors for entire project which is fine with me

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Things seem to have gotten better easier since Android 5 0  API level 21    I think what you re looking for is something like this    lt style name  AppTheme  parent  AppBaseTheme  gt       lt  -- Top-top notification status bar color  -- gt       lt  -- lt item name  colorPrimaryDark  gt  000000 lt  item gt -- gt       lt  -- App bar color  -- gt       lt item name  colorPrimary  gt  0000FF lt  item gt   lt  style gt    See here for reference   https   developer android com training material theme html ColorPalette

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There is an easier alternative to change the color of the title bar  by using the v7 appcompat support library provided by Google   See this link on how to to setup this support library  https   developer android com tools support-library setup html  Once you have done that  it s sufficient to add the following lines to your res values styles xml file    lt style name  AppTheme  parent  AppBaseTheme  gt       lt item name  android actionBarStyle  gt  style ActionBar lt  item gt   lt  style gt    lt  -- Actionbar Theme -- gt   lt style name  ActionBar  parent  Widget AppCompat Light ActionBar Solid Inverse  gt       lt item name  android background  gt  color titlebackgroundcolor lt  item gt   lt  style gt     assuming that  titlebackgroundcolor  is defined in your res values colors xml  e g     lt color name  titlebackgroundcolor  gt  0000AA lt  color gt

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