Android ActionBar on Lollipop not styling correctly

Question

I am designing an app with Material Design, but I am having trouble styling the ActionBar.

First of all, I can not get the ActionBar to render a shadow. I have tried setting the elevation in multiple ways:

In the styles.xml (v21):

<item name="android:elevation">4dp</item>
<item name="elevation">4dp</item>

In the onCreate() method

getActionBar().setElevation(4);

However, none of these result in the ActionBar rendering a shadow. Not sure if this is important, but I am running Android 5.0.1 Lollipop. What am I missing in trying to render a shadow? I don't really want to make a drawable shadow and set it as the window background.

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Secondly, my ActionBar buttons are square, and when I click on them, the ripple is cut off in a square, while in other apps I have used the mask for the ripples has been circular, and my app had been using round buttons, but recently it changed and I don't know why. Could I have accidentaly changed something making them square?

Thank you

Answer 1

The issue is that u use ActionBar while the other apps use ToolBar. Read about and change your code, everything should work after that.