title: How to style ActionaBar Tab text in Android?
body: <p>I am using ActionBarShrelock to provide Action Bars for pre honeycomb devices. 
  I have following code in my themes.xml file...</p>
  
  <pre><code> &lt;style name="My.Tab.Style" parent="@android:style/Widget.TabWidget"&gt;
          &lt;item name="android:textAppearance"&gt;@style/MyCustomTabTextStyle&lt;/item&gt;
      &lt;/style&gt;
  
     &lt;style name="MyCustomTabTextStyle" parent="Widget.Sherlock.ActionBar.TabText"&gt;
          &lt;item name="android:textAppearance"&gt;@android:style/TextAppearance.Medium&lt;/item&gt;
          &lt;item name="android:textSize"&gt;14sp&lt;/item&gt;
          &lt;item name="android:textStyle"&gt;bold&lt;/item&gt;
          &lt;item name="android:textColor"&gt;@color/tabbar_text_color&lt;/item&gt;
      &lt;/style&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Than I use this it as</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;item name="android:actionBarTabTextStyle"&gt;@style/My.Tab.Style&lt;/item&gt;
  &lt;item name="actionBarTabTextStyle"&gt;@style/My.Tab.Style&lt;/item&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Can any one explain why I am getting some shadow on the last letters of Tab ? How can I get rid of that ? plz help.. I have tried everything but that shadow is always there..</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/pAskc.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>