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I want to change my Toolbar title color to blue. It stays white. I was able to set the back button but not the title color - am I missing something?

I've tried to change it at 3 different places:

Activity

    Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.detail_toolbar);

    toolbar.setTitleTextColor(0xff00ff99);

    setSupportActionBar(toolbar);

activity.xml

        <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar

            android:id="@+id/detail_toolbar"

            android:layout_width="match_parent"

            android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"

            app:theme="@style/ToolBarStyle"

            android:background="@color/colorPrimaryDark"

            android:titleTextColor="@android:color/holo_red_dark"

            app:subtitleTextColor="@color/colorPrimaryDark"

            app:layout_collapseMode="pin"



            app:popupTheme="@style/ToolBarStyle" />

v21 styles.xml

    <!-- ToolBar -->

    <style name="ToolBarStyle" parent="Theme.AppCompat">



    <item name="titleTextColor">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>

    <item name="android:titleTextColor">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>

    <item name="android:textColorPrimary">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>

    <item name="android:textColorSecondary">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>

    <item name="actionMenuTextColor">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>

    <item name="android:textColor">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>

</style>

styles.xml

    <style name="ToolBarStyle" parent="Theme.AppCompat">

    <item name="titleTextColor">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>

    <item name="android:titleTextColor">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>

    <item name="android:textColorPrimary">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>

    <item name="android:textColorSecondary">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>

    <item name="actionMenuTextColor">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>

    <item name="android:textColor">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>

</style>

What am I missing?
It stays white no matter what. I've even went through the 150 references to #ffffff in the whole project and nowhere is the toolbar referenced there.

targetSdk 26, running on Android 7.1.1

Create custom Toolbar like this:

toolbar_layout.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"

    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"

    android:layout_width="match_parent"

    android:layout_height="wrap_content"

    android:fitsSystemWindows="false"

    android:theme="@style/AppTheme.AppBarOverlay">



    <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar

        android:id="@+id/toolbar"

        android:layout_width="match_parent"

        android:layout_height="?android:attr/actionBarSize"

        android:background="@android:color/backgroundColor"

        app:popupTheme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light"

        app:theme="@style/Base.Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">



        <TextView

            android:id="@+id/toolbar_title"

            android:layout_width="wrap_content"

            android:layout_height="wrap_content"

            android:textColor="@color/blue"/>



    </android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>

</android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>

Include it in you layout:

<include layout="@layout/toolbar_layout"/>

Use it in your activity's onCreate method:

@Override

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    setContentView(R.layout.activity_new_card);



    Toolbar toolbar = findViewById(R.id.toolbar);

    TextView toolbarTitle = findViewById(R.id.toolbar_title);



    setSupportActionBar(toolbar);

    if (getSupportActionBar() != null)

        getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);



    toolbarTitle.setText("Your title");

    ...

}

Hope it will help.

Try to change this:

android:titleTextColor="@android:color/holo_red_dark"

to:

app:titleTextColor="@android:color/holo_red_dark"

in your activity.xml android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar section.

Ok so I have found the answer by literally stack tracing my code.

I have a PagerAdapter returning different fragments. I thought that each Activity was responsible to the Tabbar (it's a Master/Detail pattern for different tabs each) as I've had to set stuff like setSupportActionBar() which I've done in the subsequent Activities.

Stacktracing my code I've realized that there is a CollapsingToolbarLayout being find by view ID. This is where I set the bar's title. From there, I didn't find any title property but I've let auto complete lead me to setCollapsedTitleTextColor and setExpandedTitleColor.

So although the getColor() part is deprecated it's

bar.setCollapsedTitleTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.colorPrimaryDark));

bar.setExpandedTitleColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.colorPrimaryDark));

Still no idea why all the other places I've set it at didn't do the trick but very happy it's working now.

In Layout file use the Toolbar as Child layout of AppBarLayout

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"

    android:layout_width="match_parent"

    android:layout_height="match_parent"

    android:orientation="vertical">

<android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout

        android:layout_width="match_parent"

        android:layout_height="wrap_content"

        android:theme="@style/AppTheme.AppBarOverlay">



        <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar

            android:id="@+id/toolbar"

            android:layout_width="match_parent"

            android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"

            android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"

            app:popupTheme="@style/AppTheme.PopupOverlay">



        </android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>

    </android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>

</LinearLayout>

Style.xml

<style name="AppTheme.AppBarOverlay" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar" />

<style name="AppTheme.PopupOverlay" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light" />

Inside MainActivity

 @Override

    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

       Toolbar  toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);

        setSupportActionBar(toolbar);

}