title: How to change the Action bar text and background properties?
body: <p>Here is my style for the action bar. I would like to change the text and background properties. But the changes are not being applied to the app. Where am I making mistake? </p>
  
  <p>This is my style.xml</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;style name="AppTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme.Holo.Light"&gt;    
  &lt;item name="android:actionBarStyle"&gt;@style/MyActionBar&lt;/item&gt;
  &lt;/style&gt;
  
  &lt;style name="MyActionBar" parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar"&gt;
  &lt;item name="android:windowBackground"&gt;@color/white&lt;/item&gt;
  &lt;item name="android:background"&gt;@color/white&lt;/item&gt;
  &lt;item name="android:drawableBottom"&gt;@color/actionbar_title_color&lt;/item&gt;
  &lt;item name="android:textSize"&gt;@dimen/actionbar_text_size&lt;/item&gt;
  &lt;item name="android:textColor"&gt;@color/black&lt;/item&gt;    
  &lt;/style&gt;
  </code></pre>