title: Action Bar Background Not Changing
body: <p>I have went on android and followed their instructions to style the Action Bar and it is not working.  The app keeps stopping. I can see the changed color briefly as the message is shown.  I have a note 2 with 4.4.2.. Here are my </p>
  
  <p>styles.`     </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
  &lt;resources&gt;
  &lt;!-- the theme applied to the application or activity --&gt;
  &lt;style name="CustomActionBarTheme"
      parent="@android:style/Theme.Holo.Light.DarkActionBar"&gt;
      &lt;item name="android:actionBarStyle"&gt;@style/MyActionBar&lt;/item&gt;
  &lt;/style&gt;
  
  &lt;!-- ActionBar styles --&gt;
  &lt;style name="MyActionBar"
      parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar.Solid.Inverse"&gt;
      &lt;item name="android:background"&gt;#F00&lt;/item&gt;
  &lt;/style&gt;
  &lt;/resources&gt;`
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>manifest</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
  &lt;manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  package="funnestgames.actionbar" &gt;
  
  &lt;application
      android:theme="@style/CustomActionBarTheme"
      android:allowBackup="true"
      android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
      android:label="@string/app_name"
      &gt;
      &lt;activity
          android:name=".MainActivity"
          android:label="@string/app_name" &gt;
          &lt;intent-filter&gt;
              &lt;action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" /&gt;
  
              &lt;category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" /&gt;
          &lt;/intent-filter&gt;
      &lt;/activity&gt;
  &lt;/application&gt;
  
  &lt;/manifest&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and my logcat.</p>
  
  <pre><code>    5-29 20:35:33.541      838-838/funnestgames.actionbar E/AndroidRuntime﹕ FATAL EXCEPTION: main
  Process: funnestgames.actionbar, PID: 838
  java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity     ComponentInfo{funnestgames.actionbar/funnestgames.actionbar.MainActivity}:     java.lang.IllegalStateException: You need to use a Theme.AppCompat theme (or     descendant) with this activity.
          at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2413)
          at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2471)
          at android.app.ActivityThread.access$900(ActivityThread.java:175)
          at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1308)
          at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
          at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:146)
          at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5602)
          at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
          at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515)
          at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1283)
  
  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1099)
  
  at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
  Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: You need to use a Theme.AppCompat theme (or descendant) with this activity.
  
  at  android.support.v7.app.AppCompatDelegateImplBase.onCreate(AppCompatDelegateImplBase.java:122)
  
  at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatDelegateImplV7.onCreate(AppCompatDelegateImplV7.java:146)
          at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity.onCreate(AppCompatActivity.java:59)
  
  at funnestgames.actionbar.MainActivity.onCreate(MainActivity.java:16)
  
  at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:5451)
  
  at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1093)
  
  at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2377)
             
   at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2471)
              
  at android.app.ActivityThread.access$900(ActivityThread.java:175)
              
  at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1308)
             
   at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
              
  at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:146)
              
  at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5602)
              
  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
              
  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515)
              
  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1283)
              
  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1099)
              
  at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
  </code></pre>