title: Change ActionBar tabs color
body: <p>I am using the appcompat support library and I want to change the color of the <strong>action bar tabs</strong>. I found these <a href="https://developer.android.com/training/basics/actionbar/styling.html" rel="nofollow">instructions</a> in which the <strong>customize tab indicator</strong> section suggests creating a file res/drawable/actionbar_tab_indicator.xml declaring a specific background image for several different states of an action bar tab.</p>
  
  <p>actionbar_tab_indicator.xml looks like :</p>
  
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  <pre><code>&lt;!-- STATES WHEN BUTTON IS NOT PRESSED --&gt;
  
      &lt;!-- Non focused states --&gt;
      &lt;item android:state_focused="false" android:state_selected="false"
            android:state_pressed="false"
            android:drawable="@drawable/tab_unselected" /&gt;
  
  ...
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The @drawable/* images are nine patches.
  However, i do not want to get involved in creating nine-patches images. Is there another way to change the actionbar tab's color?</p>