How to change the color of Action Bar in an Android App?

In this article, you will learn how to change the colour of the Action Bar in an Android App.

There are two ways to change color.

1. By changing styles.xml file:
   • Just go to res/values/styles.xml file
   • edit the xml file to change the color of action bar.
   • Code for styles.xml is given below

   styles.xml

   
   

   
   
   

   <resources>        <!-- Base application theme. -->     <style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">         <!-- Customize your theme here. -->         <!-- This code is for changing the color of the bar. -->         <!-- Type your colour code which you want to set in colorPrimary item -->         <item name="colorPrimary">#0F9D58</item>         <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>         <item name="colorAccent">@color/colorAccent</item>     </style>     <style name="AppTheme.NoActionBar">         <item name="windowActionBar">false</item>         <item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>     </style>     <!-- Define other styles to fix theme -->     <style name="AppTheme.AppBarOverlay" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar" />     <style name="AppTheme.PopupOverlay" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light" /> </resources>

   activity_main.xml

   
   

   
   
   

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>    <!--Relative Layout--> <RelativeLayout     xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"     xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"     android:layout_width="match_parent"     android:layout_height="match_parent"     android:id="@+id/relativelayout">        <!--Text View-->    <TextView        android:layout_width="wrap_content"        android:layout_height="wrap_content"        android:id="@+id/textview"        android:textColor="#0F9D58"        android:textSize="32dp"        android:layout_centerInParent="true"/> </RelativeLayout>

   MainActivity.java

   
   

   
   
   

   package com.neveropen.changecolor; import android.widget.TextView; import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;    public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {     @Override     protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)     {         super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);         setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);         // Define text View         TextView t = findViewById(R.id.textview);         t.setText("Geeks for Geeks");     } }

2. Through Java file by defining ActionBar object:
   • Define object for ActionBar and colorDrawable class
   • set color using setBackgroundDrawable function with colorDrawable object as its parameter.
   • Here is complete code for MainActivity.java

   MainActivity.java

   
   

   
   
   

   package com.neveropen.changecolor;    import android.support.v7.app.ActionBar; import android.graphics.Color; import android.graphics.drawable.ColorDrawable; import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;    public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {        @Override     protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)     {         super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);         setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);            // Define ActionBar object         ActionBar actionBar;         actionBar = getSupportActionBar();            // Define ColorDrawable object and parse color         // using parseColor method         // with color hash code as its parameter         ColorDrawable colorDrawable             = new ColorDrawable(Color.parseColor("#0F9D58"));            // Set BackgroundDrawable         actionBar.setBackgroundDrawable(colorDrawable);     } }

   activity_main.xml

   
   

   
   
   

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>    <!--Relative Layout--> <RelativeLayout      xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"     xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"     android:layout_width="match_parent"     android:layout_height="match_parent"     android:id="@+id/relativelayout">        <!--Text View-->    <TextView        android:layout_width="wrap_content"        android:layout_height="wrap_content"        android:textColor="#0F9D58"        android:textSize="30dp"        android:text="Geeks for Geeks"        android:layout_centerInParent="true"/> </RelativeLayout>

Output:

• Default color of action Bar:
  
• In Main Activity color of Action Bar is changed to hash code defined in above code.