title: Android ActionBar color change from manifest not behaving properly
body: <p>I am changing the Android ActionBar color by creating my own style and applying through the manifest. but when I am running on the Emulator, the ActionBar as well as the screen itself is changing the color. See the image:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/UuPy3.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>I tried to search answer for this problem but got no solution. Here is the <strong>Manifest</strong>:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
  &lt;manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      package="com.example.actionbartestapp"
      android:versionCode="1"
      android:versionName="1.0" &gt;
  
      &lt;uses-sdk
          android:minSdkVersion="11"
          android:targetSdkVersion="18" /&gt;
  
      &lt;application
          android:allowBackup="true"
          android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
          android:label="@string/app_name"
          android:theme="@style/MyActionBar" &gt;
          &lt;activity
              android:name="com.example.actionbartestapp.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 here is the <strong>Styles.xml</strong> file:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;resources&gt;
  
      &lt;!--
          Base application theme, dependent on API level. This theme is replaced
          by AppBaseTheme from res/values-vXX/styles.xml on newer devices.
      --&gt;
      &lt;style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="android:Theme.Light"&gt;
          &lt;!--
              Theme customizations available in newer API levels can go in
              res/values-vXX/styles.xml, while customizations related to
              backward-compatibility can go here.
          --&gt;
      &lt;/style&gt;
  
      &lt;!-- Application theme. --&gt;
      &lt;style name="AppTheme" parent="AppBaseTheme"&gt;
          &lt;!-- All customizations that are NOT specific to a particular API-level can go here. --&gt;
      &lt;/style&gt;
  
      &lt;style name="MyActionBar" parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar"&gt;
          &lt;item name="android:background"&gt;@color/SmugeBlue&lt;/item&gt;
      &lt;/style&gt;
  
  &lt;/resources&gt;
  </code></pre>