title: Change Toolbar color in Appcompat 21
body: <p>I am testing out the new Appcompat 21 Material Design features. Therefore I've created a Toolbar like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
  android:id="@+id/activity_my_toolbar"
  android:layout_width="match_parent"
  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
  android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
  app:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.ActionBar"/&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and included it in my main layout file.</p>
  
  <p>Then I've set it as supportActionBar like that:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Toolbar toolBar = (Toolbar)findViewById(R.id.activity_my_toolbar);
  setSupportActionBar(toolBar);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It's working, but somehow I can't quite figure out how to customize the toolbar. It's grey and the text on it is black. How should I change background and text color?</p>
  
  <p>I've gone through this instructions:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://android-developers.blogspot.de/2014/10/appcompat-v21-material-design-for-pre.html" rel="noreferrer">http://android-developers.blogspot.de/2014/10/appcompat-v21-material-design-for-pre.html</a></p>
  
  <p>What have I overseen to change colors?</p>
  
  <pre><code> &lt;style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light"&gt;
      &lt;item name="android:windowActionBar" tools:ignore="NewApi"&gt;false&lt;/item&gt;
      &lt;item name="windowActionBar"&gt;false&lt;/item&gt;
  &lt;/style&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT</strong>:</p>
  
  <p>I was able to change the background color by adding these lines of code to the theme:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;item name="colorPrimary"&gt;@color/actionbar&lt;/item&gt;
  &lt;item name="colorPrimaryDark"&gt;@color/actionbar_dark&lt;/item&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But they won't affect the text color. What am I missing? Instead of the black text and black menu button, I'd rather prefer a white text and white menu buttons:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/0SD7L.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>