Android ActionBar Style Not being applied

Question

I've been trying to change the text color of the tabs and menus in my action bar. I've followed a few of the answered questions on here and looked at the Android developer site. I've made the changes to my code but the theme in my style.xml file is not being applied.

The minSdkVersion specified in my manifest is 19 and I am running on a lollipop device.

styles.xml

<style name="MyActionBarTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme.Holo.Light">
    <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/MyActionBar</item>
    <item name="android:actionBarTabTextStyle">@style/MyActionBarTabText</item>
    <item name="android:actionMenuTextColor">@color/green</item>
</style>

<style name="MyActionBar" parent="android:style/Widget.Holo.ActionBar">
    <item name="android:titleTextStyle">@style/MyActionBarTitleText</item>
</style>

<style name="MyActionBarTitleText" parent="android:style/TextAppearance.Holo.Widget.ActionBar.Title">
    <item name="android:textColor">@color/white</item>
</style>

<style name="MyActionBarTabText" parent="android:style/Widget.Holo.ActionBar.TabText">
    <item name="android:textColor">@color/white</item>
</style>

AndroidManifest.xml

<application
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Holo.Light">

MainActivity.java

    // Set up the action bar.
    final ActionBar actionBar = getActionBar();

    actionBar.setHomeButtonEnabled(false);

    // Specify that we will be displaying tabs in the action bar.
    actionBar.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS);

    // Set up the ViewPager, attaching the adapter and setting up a listener for when the
    // user swipes between sections.
    mViewPager = (ViewPager) findViewById(R.id.pager);
    mViewPager.setAdapter(mAppSectionsPagerAdapter);
    mViewPager.setOnPageChangeListener(new ViewPager.SimpleOnPageChangeListener() {
        @Override
        public void onPageSelected(int position) {
            actionBar.setSelectedNavigationItem(position);
        }
    });

    for (int i = 0; i < mAppSectionsPagerAdapter.getCount(); i++) {
        actionBar.addTab(
                actionBar.newTab()
                        .setText(mAppSectionsPagerAdapter.getPageTitle(i))
                        .setTabListener(this));
    }       

As always, any help is greatly appreciated :)

Answer 1

Use this code in AndroidManifest.xml

<application
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:theme="@style/MyActionBarTheme >

And use this codes for Styles.xml

<resources>
    <style name="MyActionBarTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme.Holo.Light">
        <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/MyTheme.ActionBarStyle</item>
        <item name="android:actionBarTabTextStyle">@style/tabtextcolor</item>
    </style>

    <style name="MyTheme.ActionBarStyle"parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar">
         <item name="android:titleTextStyle">@style/MyTheme.ActionBar.TitleTextStyle</item
    </style>

    <style name="MyTheme.ActionBar.TitleTextStyle" parent="@android:style/TextAppearance.Holo.Widget.ActionBar.Title">
        <item name="android:textColor">@color/red</item>
    </style>

    <style name="tabtextcolor" parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar.TabText">
        <item name="android:textColor">@android:color/white</item>
    </style>
</resources>