Android set background color of ActionBar

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Here is a snipet that will set the background color of a ActionBar to a hexcolor.

final ActionBar bar = getActionBar();
 
bar.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS);
bar.setDisplayOptions(0, ActionBar.DISPLAY_SHOW_TITLE);
bar.setBackgroundDrawable(new ColorDrawable(Color.parseColor("#000000")));

Color.parseColor will take any hexstring of a color and make it into a int.