Question

In my application I am using my own theme based on the Theme.Holo.Light
However I have customised the actionBarStyle, setting the background drawable to a blue gradient to fit with my app’s style.

However, with the Halo light theme, the action bar text is dark, & the default icons, such as the Up Nav arrow and the menu icon are dark, these don’t go on my blue gradient.

As you can see from my XML below, I have managed to correct the title text colour but I can’t find the attribute I need to override for the icons.

How can I change tell the theme to effectively use the icons on the ActionBar from Theme.Halo
instead of those Theme.Halo.Light but making the rest of my application remain using Theme.Halo.Light

Here’s my current XML

<style name="MyLightTheme" parent="android:Theme.Holo.Light">
    <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/MyActionBar</item>
</style>

<style name="MyActionBar" parent="android:style/Widget.Holo.ActionBar">
    <item name="android:background">@drawable/blue_gradient_light</item>
    <item name="android:titleTextStyle">@style/Theme.ActionBar.TitleTextStyle</item>
</style>

<style name="Theme.ActionBar.TitleTextStyle" parent="android:style/TextAppearance.Holo.Widget.ActionBar.Title">
    <item name="android:textColor">@color/solid_white</item>
</style>

Thanks for your help

Answer 1

Use Theme.Holo.Light.DarkActionBar as your base if you want to do this. It will take care of these details.