Custom theme interferes with snackbar background color

Question

Trying out the new Design Support Library, I added a snackbar; but unlike its main background, the text area is not colored with the default value of #323232. Instead, it looks like this. It seems to take its color from the android:background value defined in the custom theme in my styles.xml, which goes like this:

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
    ...
    <item name="android:background">#4f4f5e</item>
    ...
</style>

If I try to forcefully color it with

View snackbarView = snackbar.getView(); 
snackbarView.setBackgroundColor(Color.YELLOW);

it only impacts the main background, like this, and the text background still gets colored by the custom theme. Is there a way to both keep my custom theme, and have a standard snackbar? Thanks!

Answer 1

To change the Snackbar's background colour you can do the following from code:

Snackbar snack = Snackbar.make(...);
ViewGroup group = (ViewGroup) snack.getView();
group.setBackgroundColor(ContextCompat.getColor(getContext(), R.color.red));
snack.show();

Instead of red you can use the Snackbar's default colour: #323232