Android Question AppCompat not showing action bar in correct color

[Misterbates]

Not sure what I've missed, but my action bar should be orange and instead it's black.

I thought I'd followed the AppCompat Material Design instructions!

I tried the Action Bar example (from Material Design 2) and that works fine, so I could use that as the starting point for my project ... but I'd rather know what it is I've missed so that next time I can fix it myself.

Project zipfile: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6LZPcxA3Ee4c2xxYTNFODhzbkE/view?usp=sharing

Can anyone spot an error?

 

[Erel]

1. You should use File - Export as zip to create the zip file. It would have created a much smaller zip file.

2. The resources and the custom build action are no longer needed.

3. The style parent should be set to: Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar

See this example: AppCompat with ToolBar - minimal example

 

[Misterbates]

Erel, thanks very much for taking a look.

1. You should use File - Export as zip to create the zip file. It would have created a much smaller zip file.

Noted - apologies, newbie error.

2. The resources and the custom build action are no longer needed.

Noted - the project came from a larger project where the resources are used but you're right, I didn't need to share them all in the zipfile.

3. The style parent should be set to: Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar

I entered the below in the Manifest Editor but no change to the dark action bar. So I started from your example project and re-added my code step by step - the problem hasn't re-occurred.

'Set custom theme

SetApplicationAttribute(android:theme, "@style/MyAppTheme")

'Create Resource for the theme (Material, v21 and up)
CreateResource(values, themes.xml,
<resources>
    <style name="MyAppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
        <item name="colorPrimary">#FF9800</item>
        <item name="colorPrimaryDark">#F57C00</item>
        <item name="colorAccent">#FFA726</item>
        <item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
        <item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
        <item name="windowActionModeOverlay">true</item>
    </style>
</resources>
)

I'm still curious why this was happening, but for right now have more important things to do.

Thanks for your help. Always nice to get an answer to a post