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If I press a button in the action bar, then its background color is not what I want. The background color of my item doesn't respond to my click event. How can I change this and change the background color when it's pressed?

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You need to declare android:actionBarItemBackground attribute which is a:

Custom item state list drawable background for action bar items.

Then, in your styles do as follows: 

<style name="CustomStyle" parent="@style/Theme.Holo.Light" > <item name="android:actionBarItemBackground">@drawable/ab_item_background</item> <item name="actionBarItemBackground">@drawable/ab_item_background</item> </style>

So, put your own drawable with a selector and every state (pressed, focused, disabled, etc) to have the expected background. For example, the drawable ab_item_background.xml declared above might be like this:

<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:exitFadeDuration="@android:integer/config_mediumAnimTime"> <!-- focused/pressed: color=red --> <item android:state_focused="true" android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="@color/red" /> <!-- pressed: color=red --> <item android:state_pressed="true" android:drawable="@color/red" /> <!-- normal: color=transparent --> <item android:drawable="@android:color/transparent" /> </selector>

In Styling the Action Bar, you can find all the customization possibles and all the attributes to do so.

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Fixed it by using DarkActionBar
Working perfectly, thanks.. Just one thing though android:actionBarItemBackground is being understood by Android while actionBarItemBackground is giving error so I removed it, is it necessary to have both?
It depends of your actionbar @RohanKandwal. If you use SherlockAB or the Support library, you have to use it, yes.
@Fllo I use Support library, as I said, actionBarItemBackground gave error while compiling so I removed it. In this case, how can I use both.
I see @RohanKandwal. When you write these attributes in style.xml, you have to close this file, clean and save your project.
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ActionBar actionBar = getActionBar(); actionBar.setBackgroundDrawable(new ColorDrawable(Color.parseColor("#0a0a0a")));

this might help

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This is change background color for actionbar, not for home button

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