title: Unable to customize AppTheme for action bar in Android app
body: <p>I'm trying to customize the action bar. I've done it before too, but I'm unable to do it now. Not sure where I'm going wrong.</p>
  
  <p></p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!-- Base application theme. --&gt;
  &lt;style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar"&gt;
      &lt;!-- Customize your theme here. --&gt;
      &lt;item name="android:actionBarStyle"&gt;@style/MyActionBar&lt;/item&gt;
  &lt;/style&gt;
  
  &lt;style name="MyActionBar"
      parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar.Solid.Inverse"&gt;
      &lt;item name="android:background"&gt;@drawable/actionbar_gradient&lt;/item&gt;
  &lt;/style&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p></p>
  
  <p>This is the drawable that I'm adding</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
  &lt;shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      android:shape="rectangle"&gt;
      &lt;gradient
          android:angle="270"
          android:startColor="#d6ece542"
          android:endColor="#fffffdf4"
          /&gt;
  &lt;/shape&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I've also added this inside <code>&lt;application&gt;</code> tag in my manifest:</p>
  
  <pre><code>android:theme="@style/AppTheme"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But every time I'm just getting the same action-bar (the default of the theme). Can someone tell what's wrong?</p>
  
  <p>Also FYI, my minSdk version=18, and target version=21</p>