Actionbar button background

7
votes

I want to customize actionbar buttons with an image both for pressed and not pressed state. I put a drawable selector on android:icon with two states (pressed and not pressed). The problem is that, if I press the button, I still have the blue background (ics holo style) along with my pressed button icon. How can I remove this behaviour from actionbar customized icon buttons?

Thanks

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Does the icon show pressed and not-pressed state? – Gaurav Vashisth

2 Answers

22
votes

I think the more specific way is to put this attribute in your application Theme:

    <item name="android:actionBarItemBackground">@android:color/transparent</item>

Also put this if you're using ActionBarSherlock:

    <item name="actionBarItemBackground">@android:color/transparent</item>
5
votes

I have fixed the problem putting 

 <item name="android:selectableItemBackground">@color/transparent</item>

in styles.xml. I thought it would have affected all the select styles but it seems it affects just the actionbar.