title: Change ActionBarSherlock background color
body: <p>I'm trying to implement ActionBarSherlock because I was told it is relatively easy to implement and customize.  I've found it was pretty easy to implement, but I'm trying to change the background color of the ActionBar and it's proving difficult.</p>
  
  <p>According to the the site (<a href="http://actionbarsherlock.com/theming.html">link</a>), it seems you can inherit one of the ActionBarSherlock's themes and then override the properties you need.</p>
  
  <p>This is what I have so far:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
  &lt;resources&gt;
      &lt;style name="Theme.ActionBar" parent="Theme.Sherlock.ForceOverflow"&gt;
        &lt;item name="android:background"&gt;#000000&lt;/item&gt;
        &lt;item name="background"&gt;#000000&lt;/item&gt;
      &lt;/style&gt;
  &lt;/resources&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm noticing the built-in theme are using images for the background, but I'm praying I don't have to create images to change the background color.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>