title: Android unable to change background color of ActionBar
body: <p>I'm trying to change the background color of my Actionbar, but after referencing the <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8024706/how-do-i-change-the-background-color-of-the-actionbar-of-an-actionbaractivity-us">several</a> <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18288402/how-to-set-custom-actionbar-color-style?lq=1">other</a> questions on this site I still can't get their solutions to work. </p>
  
  <p><strong>Styles.xml</strong> </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;resources&gt;
  
      &lt;style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar"&gt;
          &lt;item name="actionBarStyle"&gt;@style/ActionBar&lt;/item&gt;
          &lt;item name="android:windowActionBar"&gt;true&lt;/item&gt;
      &lt;/style&gt;
  
      &lt;style name="ActionBar" parent="Widget.AppCompat.ActionBar.Solid"&gt;
          &lt;item name="background"&gt;@color/light_blue_menu_bar&lt;/item&gt;
      &lt;/style&gt;
  &lt;/resources&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>colors.xml</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;resources&gt;
      ... 
      &lt;color name="blue_semi_transparent_pressed"&gt;#80738ffe&lt;/color&gt;
      &lt;color name="light_blue_menu_bar"&gt;#87CEFA&lt;/color&gt;
  &lt;/resources&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>manifest.xml</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;application
          android:allowBackup="true"
          android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
          android:label="@string/app_name"
          android:theme="@style/AppTheme" &gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However the ActionBar doesn't appear in of my views. What am I missing?</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT</strong></p>
  
  <p>The solution was to add to styles.xml</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;item name="android:windowActionBar"&gt;true&lt;/item&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ADxV5.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>