How to Style Appcompat-V7 Toolbar Like Theme.Appcompat.Light.Darkactionbar

How do I style appcompat-v7 Toolbar like Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar?

The recommended way to style the Toolbar for a Light.DarkActionBar clone would be to use Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionbar as parent/app theme and add the following attributes to the style to hide the default ActionBar:

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
    <item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
    <item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
</style>

Then use the following as your Toolbar:

<android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar">

    <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
        android:id="@+id/toolbar"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
        android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
        app:popupTheme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light" />
</android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>

For further modifications, you would create styles extending ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar and ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light replacing the ones within AppBarLayout->android:theme and Toolbar->app:popupTheme. Also note that this will pick up your ?attr/colorPrimary if you have set it in your main style so you might get a different background color.

You will find a good example of this is in the current project template with an Empty Activity of Android Studio (1.4+).

appcompat v7 23, actionbars, transparency

I think you are doing it in the wrong way.I mean, the following Toolbar Hasn't any PrimaryColor or even Background:

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
                android:id="@+id/toolbar"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:paddingTop="8dp"
                android:paddingBottom="8dp"
                app:layout_scrollFlags="scroll|enterAlways"/>

            <!--android:background="?attr/colorPrimaryDark"-->
                <!--app:theme="@style/AppTheme.AppBarOverlay">-->
                <!--android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"-->
                <!--app:popupTheme="@style/AppTheme.PopupOverlay"-->

So, this will works on (v21) versions only without any background or PrimaryColor.and as you can see, Toolbar is going to be like your Activity Theme which that has:

 <item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>

With:

Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar

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And, if you don't set any background color or PrimaryColor, because of:

 Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar

and your Toolbar, it has to be like that:

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
            <!-- Customize your theme here. -->
            <item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>

Otherwise, it should crashed(i guess, not sure) because you have a Theme with DarkActionBar and one Toolbar with no background.

I think this is the problem!

Edit:

For completing the answer, since this code was simple anyway, i'll add it here:

Add this also in your AppBarLayout:

android:theme

Unable to get AppCompat ActionBar/Toolbar to become an overlay

So, it turns out the issue was simultaneously totally simple, and yet not obvious (to me, at least). Basically the issue is that although the Toolbar is being set as the Actionbar, it is still at the end of the day a layout element declared in XML. So, the trick is of course to make sure it overlaps in the XML. Here's a sample from my layout, now:

<RelativeLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical">

    <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
        android:id="@+id/actionbar"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
        android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"/>

    <FrameLayout
        android:id="@+id/container"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent" />

</RelativeLayout>

All works as expected now. Hope this can help someone else if they have the same issue!

Styling Toolbar does not work using AppCompat

Just use this in yout layout xml

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
    android:id="@+id/toolbar"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
    android:background="@color/red600"
    app:popupTheme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light"
    app:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar" />

Set theme in xml itself to ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar which will make title text white.

app:popupTheme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light"
app:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar"

And I guess this is the right way to theme Toolbar, since according to official Android Developer blog

Styling of Toolbar is done differently to the standard action bar, and
is set directly onto the view.

Here's a basic style you should be using when you're using a Toolbar
as your action bar:

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar  
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
    app:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.ActionBar" />

The app:theme declaration will make sure that your text and items are
using solid colors (i.e 100% opacity white).

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