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5,729 PointsAppTheme not correct by default
I did start my project and when it loads everything into the studio the default activity theme which is named APPTHEME is not with the action bar, is there any way I can download it from ?
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Harry James
14,780 PointsHey Unmesh!
AppTheme is a custom theme that we define and we can give it an Action Bar if it doesn't have one already.
To do this, hop into the res >> values directory and open the styles.xml file.
I'm not going to go into the details of this file as Ben will teach you them in a bit but styles.xml allows us to customize styles for our app. Here, we have the AppTheme style that has a parent. We can customize this theme where the comment is so that we inherit properties from the parent but change some of the properties we don't want to inherit (We want to change).
You can go ahead and use this parent:
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
So that you have a light themed application but a dark themed action bar. Note that there's nothing we need to customize just yet so this is the only line you need to change (Line 4 by default).
Hope it helps and if you have any problems whilst doing this, give me a shout and I'll be happy to help out :)