How to change ActionMode background color in Android

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i am creating an android app in which support level api is 7 so i am using sherlock actionbar. I am using action mode in it. Issue is i want to change the background of action mode. So i have tried 

    <item name="android:background">@color/something</item>
    <item name="android:backgroundStacked">@color/something</item>
    <item name="android:backgroundSplit">@color/something</item>

these style solution's available but none of them works. enter image description here

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9 Answers

If you want to do it programmatically (supporting AppCompat) you need to look for icon parent view. This code is tested from 2.3.7 to 6.0.1. You need to check on lower API... .

first get your activity decor view 

final ViewGroup  decorView = (ViewGroup) getActivity().getWindow().getDecorView();

second set the color in onPrepareActionMode. You can also set the back icon or other elements here

@Override
public boolean onPrepareActionMode(ActionMode actionMode, Menu menu) 
{

     decorView.postDelayed(new Runnable() {

     @Override
     public void run() 
     {
        int buttonId = getResources().getIdentifier("action_mode_close_button", "id", "android");

        View v = decorView.findViewById(buttonId);
        if (v == null)
        {
           buttonId = R.id.action_mode_close_button;
            v = decorView.findViewById(buttonId);   
        }

        if (v != null)
        {                         
           ((View)v.getParent()).setBackgroundColor(Color.red /*your color here*/);
        }               
     }   
     }, 500);}
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