Change title color in toolbar?

Asked 10/3, 2015 at 1:11 Answered 16/5, 2020 at 12:8

Solved android android-theme android-toolbar

I have a toolbar that I use, and set title with:

((ActionBarActivity)getActivity()).getSupportActionBar().setTitle("Home");

Is there a way to change the color from black to white?

I tried making its own theme and setting it in the xml like this, but no dice:

<resources>

    <!-- Base application theme. -->
    <style name="AppTheme2" parent="Theme.AppCompat">
        <item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
        <item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
        <item name="colorPrimary">@color/primary</item>
        <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/primary_dark</item>
        <item name="colorAccent">@color/accent</item>
        <item name="android:textColorPrimary">@color/primary_text</item>
        <item name="android:textColorSecondary">@color/secondary_text</item>

    </style>

    <style name="Widget.MyApp.ActionBar" parent="Widget.AppCompat.ActionBar">
        <item name="android:background">@color/primary</item>
        <item name="theme">@style/ThemeOverlay.MyApp.ActionBar</item>
        <item name="popupTheme">@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light</item>
    </style>

    <style name="ThemeOverlay.MyApp.ActionBar" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.ActionBar">
        <item name="android:textColorPrimary">#FFFFFF</item>
    </style>



</resources>

XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:background="#e5e5e5"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
        android:id="@+id/toolbar"
        android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
        android:background="@color/primary"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        style="@style/Widget.MyApp.ActionBar">

        <Spinner
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:id="@+id/statsSpin"
            android:spinnerMode="dropdown"
            android:textColor="#FFFFFF"/>


    </android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>



    <ListView
        android:id="@+id/yourStats"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:dividerHeight="0px"
        android:divider="@null"

        >
    </ListView>



</LinearLayout>

Measured answered 10/3, 2015 at 1:11 Comment(4)

You mean programatically or via a theme? – Budde 10/3, 2015 at 1:31

it is repeated question answered at https://mcmap.net/q/112892/-set-title-background-color – Cinnamon 10/3, 2015 at 2:2

@RaviKoradiya That answer is outdated, FWIW, for an old version of Android. – Gondar 9/11, 2015 at 20:58

It's not an answer but an info. You don't need to write ((ActionBarActivity)getActivity()).getSupportActionBar().setTitle("Home"); to change the Toolbar Title. Just write setTitle(getString(R.string.title)); that's it – Retharethink 10/3, 2017 at 18:19

Programatically:

toolbar.setTitleTextColor(0xFFFFFFFF);

Budde answered 10/3, 2015 at 1:43 Comment(4)

it will support above api 23 – Linoel 19/9, 2015 at 5:10

Not if you're using the AppCompat library. – Abstain 23/5, 2016 at 20:14

worked for me with: toolbar.setTitleTextColor(android.graphics.Color.WHITE); .. thanks! – Yorker 26/7, 2016 at 23:38

can we get a modern answer with darktheme awareness? – Intelligencer 8/6, 2019 at 23:56

Per the Theme vs Style blog post by the creator of AppCompat and the post on version 21 of AppCompat, a DarkActionBar toolbar (i.e., a Toolbar with a dark background and light text), can be accomplished by adding android:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar" to your Toolbar's XML:

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
    android:id="@+id/toolbar"
    android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
    android:background="@color/primary"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar"
    app:popupTheme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light">

    <Spinner
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:id="@+id/statsSpin"
        android:spinnerMode="dropdown"/>


</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>

This will change text color and the default colors to many attributes (such as your Spinner to light text as is needed for the dark background.

Rossy answered 10/3, 2015 at 3:22 Comment(2)

Why app:theme and not android:theme (both work)? – Monoacid 18/5, 2017 at 14:28

Prior to AppCompat 22.1, you had to use app:theme - if you are using a version later than that (which you should at this point), then yes, you should be using android:theme everywhere. I've updated my answer to reflect today's best practices. – Rossy 20/5, 2017 at 2:59

Create a new style in application base theme

  <style name="custom_toolbar" parent="@style/Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar">
        <item name="titleTextColor">#replace with color</item>
  </style>

and use the style for the toolbar

  <item name="toolbarStyle">@style/custom_toolbar</item>

Cobalt answered 30/9, 2015 at 12:0 Comment(1)

Note that "toolbarStyle" attribute only api 21+ – Afro 3/11, 2015 at 7:33

I know there are a lot of answers above hope, it will help someone who doesn't understand above answers.

Android has view called Toolbar.This view has title which always takes as default color from color.xml resources which item name is accent.You can change your toolbar color in two way.

Via xml which I recommend you to do that, here below you can see example

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
    android:id="@+id/toolbar"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
    app:titleTextColor="@color/White" />Here you can change it.Remember APP attribute not ANDROID

Via programmatically within activity or fragment.

Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar)findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
toolbar.setTitleTextColor(ContextCompat.getColor(this, R.color.colorAccent));

Snick answered 26/4, 2017 at 13:40 Comment(0)

If you want to change only title text color than, Try this one..

getSupportActionBar().setTitle(Html.fromHtml("<font color='#746E66'>"+titleText+"</font>"));

it works..!!

Shaun answered 22/2, 2016 at 7:31 Comment(0)

You can define custom tool bar style by extending Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar and setting titleTextAppearance and subtitleTextAppearance properties. This way you can change color and text size of title and subtitle of toolbar for reference http://www.zoftino.com/android-toolbar-tutorial .

<style name="MyAppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
        <item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
        <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
        <item name="toolbarStyle">@style/MyToolBarStyle</item>
    </style>
    <style name="MyToolBarStyle" parent="Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar">
        <item name="titleTextAppearance">@style/MyTitleTextAppearance</item>
        <item name="subtitleTextAppearance">@style/MySubTitleTextAppearance</item>
    </style>
    <style name="MyTitleTextAppearance" parent="TextAppearance.Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar.Title">
        <item name="android:textSize">25dp</item>
        <item name="android:textColor">#ff3d00</item>
    </style>
    <style name="MySubTitleTextAppearance" parent="TextAppearance.Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar.Subtitle">
        <item name="android:textSize">20dp</item>
        <item name="android:textColor">#1976d2</item>
    </style>

Calefactory answered 19/10, 2017 at 4:26 Comment(0)

Here I fixed it using the code below and it works on every API level:

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/color_primary</item>
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/color_primary_dark</item>
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/color_accent</item>
    <item name="toolbarStyle">@style/CustomToolBarStyle</item>
</style>

<style name="CustomToolBarStyle" parent="@style/Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar">
    <item name="titleTextColor">@color/title_text_color</item>
</style>

Vickey answered 16/5, 2020 at 12:8 Comment(0)

It can be changed programatically as you can above answer. But reduce code complexity, you should change it via style.xml First of all create attrs.xml to under res/values folder than add two reference to attrs.xml folder like below

attrs.xml

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <resources>
    <attr name="toolbar_theme" format="reference" />
    <attr name="toolbar_theme_title" format="reference" />
</resources>

After defination of reference than create a style in style.xml like below

style.xml

<style name="CustomTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
      <item name="colorPrimary">#00A4E4</item>
      <item name="colorPrimaryDark">#AB0634</item>
      <item name="colorAccent">#AB0634</item>
      <item name="toolbar_theme">@style/CustomTheme.Toolbar</item>
      <item name="toolbar_theme_title">@style/CustomTheme.Toolbar.Title</item>
      <item name="android:textColorPrimary">@color/black</item>
      <item name="android:textColorSecondary">@android:color/black</item>
      <item name="windowActionModeOverlay">true</item>
</style>

<style name="CustomTheme.Toolbar" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.ActionBar">
     <!-- if you have a navigationdrawer you change it color also -->
     <item name="colorControlNormal">#AB0634</item>
</style>

<style name="CustomTheme.Toolbar.Title" parent="TextAppearance.Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar.Title">
     <!-- Set title size -->
     <item name="android:textSize">@dimen/abc_text_size_title_material_toolbar</item>
     <!-- Set title color -->
     <item name="android:textColor">#AB0634</item>
</style>

Now we have created toolbar_theme and toolbar_theme_title reference in attrs.xml than give these references to our custom theme in style.xml

Finally we give this reference to toolbar like below

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
     android:id="@+id/toolbar"
     android:layout_width="match_parent"
     android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
     android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
     android:theme="?attr/toolbar_theme"
     app:titleTextAppearance="?attr/toolbar_theme_title"
     android:elevation="4dp"
     app:popupTheme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light" />

Thats it. You can give this theme programatically or set in androidmanifest.xml like below.

programmatically

 public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    setTheme(R.style.CustomTheme); // (for Custom theme)
    this.setContentView(R.layout.myactivity);

androidmanifest.xml

 <application
     android:theme="@style/CustomTheme">

 <activity
     android:theme="@style/CustomTheme">

Emmons answered 14/8, 2017 at 9:10 Comment(0)

To extend on tachyonflux, to set color with a HEX

 toolbar.setTitleTextColor(Color.parseColor("#519c3f"));

Smolder answered 13/9, 2016 at 6:1 Comment(0)

toolbar.setTitleTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.black));

(toolbar is the name you've give your toolbar in your acitivyt class) (In your colors values xml set your desired colors and reference it to the color name you chose, as seen here I keep some of my main colors normal names) Took me a while to figure this out myself but this is the only way I can get it to work, the ThemEditor should allow this but it is what it is.

Funke answered 10/2, 2017 at 15:47 Comment(0)

In xml:

app:titleTextColor="@color/White" as

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
    android:id="@+id/tb_top"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
    android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
    app:theme="@style/AppTheme.DarkToolbar"
    app:titleTextColor="@color/White" />

Grunter answered 5/4, 2017 at 7:5 Comment(0)

Use this code

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
        android:id="@+id/toolbar"
        app:titleTextColor="@color/colorAccent"
        app:theme="@style/ToolbarColoredBackArrow"
        app:subtitleTextColor="@color/colorAccent"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
        android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
        app:popupTheme="@style/AppTheme.PopupOverlay" />

Watkins answered 14/7, 2017 at 9:5 Comment(0)

You can change the theme of your action bar using the attribute actionBarTheme as follow. Although it has been added in API level 21 it seems to be compatible with older APIs.

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">
    <item name="actionBarTheme">@style/AppTheme.AppBarOverlay</item>
</style>

Mooneye answered 13/12, 2017 at 7:54 Comment(0)

In Kotlin, using Sandip's answer:

with(getSupportActionBar()) {
        val titleText: String = title.toString()
        setTitle(Html.fromHtml("<font color='#746E66'>" + titleText + "</font>"))
    }

Prosthesis answered 2/4, 2018 at 9:27 Comment(0)

You can change it programmatically by using following code.

toolbar.setTitleTextColor(android.graphics.Color.WHITE);

Missioner answered 25/9, 2018 at 10:34 Comment(0)

Inside of android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar, add this line:

local:titleTextColor="@color/the_color_you_want"

Lilalilac answered 26/3, 2019 at 21:4 Comment(0)

I found the rather simple solution.

It can be done by the following ways (by XML or programmatically).

First (XML solution):

<androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar
    android:id="@+id/toolbar"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
    app:layout_scrollFlags="scroll|enterAlways"
    app:popupTheme="@style/Theme.AppCompat.NoActionBar"
    app:titleTextColor="@color/white" />

Second (programmatically):

val toolbar = findViewById<Toolbar>(R.id.toolbar)
toolbar.setTitleTextColor(Color.WHITE)

The second solution requires min SDK version over 21, for your note.

Facture answered 7/5, 2020 at 13:34 Comment(0)

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