I'm trying to use a custom up/back button icon with a different color since I haven't been able to figure out a straight forward way of changing the color of the default android up/back button.
I downloaded a 128x128 back button icon (PNG) and changed it to the color I want, also placed it in my drawable folder. But i have not been able to get it to display, still.
Here's what I tried so far,
In my Styles.xml, I included this:
<style name="customStyle" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
<item name="actionBarStyle">@style/customActionBarStyle</item>
<item name="android:textColorPrimary">@color/titletextcolor</item>
</style>
<style name="customActionBarStyle" parent="@style/Widget.AppCompat.Light.ActionBar.Solid.Inverse">
<item name="background">@drawable/custom</item>
<item name="android:homeAsUpIndicator">@drawable/upbutton</item>
</style>
In my Activity's onCreate, I included this:
getSupportActionBar().setHomeAsUpIndicator(R.drawable.upbutton);
And in the onOptionsItemSelected, I did this:
@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item)
{
switch (item.getItemId())
{
case android.R.id.home:
finish();
}
return true;
}
Please can anyone help figure out what i'm doing wrong, or what I'm missing? Thanks in advance.
Here is my toolbar.xml
<android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:theme="@style/AppTheme.AppBarOverlay"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
>
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="@+id/toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<TextView
android:id="@+id/activity_title"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:gravity="center"
tools:text="[ACTIVITY TITLE]"/>
</LinearLayout>
</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>
</android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>
and the entry in the styles.xml
<style name="AppTheme.AppBarOverlay" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar">
<item name="android:background">@color/colorDarkBlue</item>
<item name="android:homeAsUpIndicator">@drawable/upbutton</item>
</style>
You still have to do:
getSupportActionBar().setHomeAsUpIndicator(R.drawable.upbutton);