I have an app and it has two themes: light and dark. When the user switches between the theme, I also need to re-theme the AppBarLayout. By default, the AppBarLayout looks like this:
<android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout android:id="@+id/appbar_layout" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:theme="@style/AppTheme.AppBarOverlay"> As you can see, the theme is set to AppTheme.AppBarOverlay, which is defined as just being empty. However, when the main theme switches (which works fine), I then need to also switch the theme being applied to the AppBar. Does anyone know how to do it? I tried naming a style like this thinking it would auto change: <style name="AppTheme.Dark.AppBarOverlay" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar"> <item name="android:background">@color/colorPrimaryInverse</item> </style> But that did not work. I then tried using a programmatic way to set the background like this: AppBarLayout appBarLayout = (AppBarLayout) findViewById(R.id.appbar_layout); appBarLayout.getContext().setTheme(R.style.AppTheme_Dark_AppBarOverlay); appBarLayout.invalidate(); But that also didn't work (the title TextView's background did not change). I also tried making 2 views and using a ViewStub to swap them, but that also failed, and I'm not sure why. I don't really understand why this is so difficult, if the property is there in XML why can't it bet set. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/android-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/android-developers/af4ef154-060f-4d9e-a72e-0e6750d5ce98%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
