Action mode close button text color

android, android-actionbar

Solution

First of all, the textview "Done" is only visible on large devices. Checkout `action_mode_close_item.xml` in the Android source. So the `android:actionModeCloseButtonStyle` only applies to the containing view and not the imageview and the textview.

Luckily, the android engineers used publicly accessible attributes to styles the childviews.

- Use `android:actionMenuTextColor` to change to textColor of the TextView.

- Use `android:actionModeCloseDrawable` to change the drawable of the ImageView

Example:

<style name="MyTheme">
    <item name="android:actionMenuTextColor">#ff000000</item>
    <item name="android:actionModeCloseDrawable">@drawable/my_close_drawable</item>
</style>

Below is a copy of the `action_mode_close_item.xml` in the `layout-large`-folder where you can see how the layout is build.

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        android:id="@+id/action_mode_close_button"
        android:focusable="true"
        android:clickable="true"
        android:paddingStart="8dip"
        style="?android:attr/actionModeCloseButtonStyle"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_marginEnd="16dip">
    <ImageView android:layout_width="48dip"
               android:layout_height="wrap_content"
               android:layout_gravity="center"
               android:scaleType="center"
               android:src="?android:attr/actionModeCloseDrawable" />
    <TextView android:layout_width="wrap_content"
              android:layout_height="wrap_content"
              android:layout_gravity="center"
              android:layout_marginStart="4dip"
              android:layout_marginEnd="16dip"
              android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall"
              android:textColor="?android:attr/actionMenuTextColor"
              android:textSize="12sp"
              android:textAllCaps="true"
              android:text="@string/action_mode_done" />
</LinearLayout>

Problem

I see to set the text color of the action mode "done" / "close" button. This is what I've tried: ``` <item name="android:actionModeCloseButtonStyle">@style/ActionModeCloseButton</item> .... <style name="ActionModeCloseButton" parent="android:style/Widget.Holo.ActionButton.CloseMode"> <item name="android:textColor">@android:color/white</item> </style> ``` but is has no effect. Note that on JB, it's enough that I make the `ActionModeCloseButton` style's parent the regular holo theme. It works fine there (without the `textColor` setting even). Any ideas?

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