I've spent the last two days trying to wrap my head around this layout I got asked by the designer to do, the shape is something like:
| ___ |
|___ ___ / \ ___ ___|
|btn|btn\\btn//btn|btn|
|___|____\\_//____|___|
That part of the screen is a button row at the bottom of the screen, the problem comes with responsiveness, if I use an image button on the non square buttons they dont resize properly, adding margins instead of reshaping the image itself, but if I use regular buttons, i lose the cool shapes they ask for. Any ideas/tutorials I could use? Maybe I'm not looking it up as it should be done, but I don't seem to find anything relevant to my problem.
I have made this with the help of floating action button and the bottom navigation view.Check out given code.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<androidx.coordinatorlayout.widget.CoordinatorLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#color/purple_500"
tools:context=".MainActivity">
<com.google.android.material.bottomappbar.BottomAppBar
android:id="#+id/btmbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="bottom"
android:backgroundTint="#color/purple_200"
app:fabCradleMargin="10dp"
app:fabCradleRoundedCornerRadius="40dp"
app:fabCradleVerticalOffset="10dp">
<com.google.android.material.bottomnavigation.BottomNavigationView
android:id="#+id/menu"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginEnd="16dp"
android:background="#android:color/transparent"
app:labelVisibilityMode="unlabeled"
app:menu="#menu/btm_menu" />
</com.google.android.material.bottomappbar.BottomAppBar>
<com.google.android.material.floatingactionbutton.FloatingActionButton
android:id="#+id/fab"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:alpha="10"
android:background="#null"
android:elevation="0dp"
android:src="#drawable/fire"
app:backgroundTint="#android:color/transparent"
app:elevation="0dp"
app:fabSize="normal"
app:layout_anchor="#id/btmbar"
app:tint="#null" />
</androidx.coordinatorlayout.widget.CoordinatorLayout>
Output will look like this:
You can make the changes in below properties to make the space between the bottom app bar.
app:fabCradleMargin="16dp"
app:fabCradleRoundedCornerRadius="40dp"
app:fabCradleVerticalOffset="10dp"
I want to remove the extra space from the navigation bar to the bottom of my screen.
As you can see below:
My BottomNavigationView leaves some space below it and I have no idea why.
The layout that contains theBottomNavigationView is very simple:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:id="#+id/layout"
tools:context=".NavBarActivity">
<FrameLayout
android:id="#+id/frame_layout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_above="#+id/menu"
android:background="#drawable/scroll_background"/>
<android.support.design.widget.BottomNavigationView
android:id="#+id/menu"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="56dp"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
android:background="#drawable/main_color_background"
app:itemIconTint="#color/secondaryTextColor"
app:itemTextColor="#color/secondaryTextColor"
app:menu="#menu/nav_items" />
</RelativeLayout>
I have checked that the problem is not coming from the custom background of the nav bar (I have checked it with some simple color and I got the same results)
Any ideas on why this is happening and how can I prevent it from happening?
Why your navigation background is circular?
Have you used main_color_background for circular background?
Remove that background which is making it circular and try it again. May be you have added some padding/margin in those background, which are leaving space.
So this is a funny solution:
In my phone, (galaxy j7 pro-2017) by default, there is some kind of black thin frame around every app and well, everything.
So I never had a problem, it just the way the phone is made.
Background
In the past, Google always shown the toolbar to have the title aligned to the left:
https://material.io/develop/android/components/app-bar-layout/
However, recently, it seems that on some of its apps, the title is centered, even if it doesn't have symmetric content on the left and right. Example is on "Messages" app:
And on "Google News" app :
It also got updated on the material guidelines, here. Example:
Some people like to call it "material design 2.0", as it got various things updated.
The problem
While there are plenty of similar questions on StackOverflow from the time it was called "ActionBar" (example here ), here it's different, because it should have the support library (AKA "Android-X") have a way to handle it correctly, because things have changed, and now Google should support it as it's a part of the guidelines and part of various Android apps.
What I've tried
I tried to add a view within the toolbar, but even by coloring the view, you can see that it's not really centered, automatically, and that's before adding more action-items or up-button :
activity_main.xml
<androidx.coordinatorlayout.widget.CoordinatorLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
tools:context=".MainActivity">
<com.google.android.material.appbar.AppBarLayout
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:theme="#style/AppTheme.AppBarOverlay">
<androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
app:popupTheme="#style/AppTheme.PopupOverlay">
<TextView android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:text="title"
android:gravity="center" android:background="#33ff0000"
android:id="#+id/titleTextView"/>
</androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar>
</com.google.android.material.appbar.AppBarLayout>
</androidx.coordinatorlayout.widget.CoordinatorLayout>
This solution is similar to many others presented on other StackOverflow threads similar to this question, and just like there, it fails to really center the text, while on Google's attempt, it gets centered correctly, no matter the number of action items and other views around.
There is also a nicer workaround that I've come up with: have one toolbar on each side, and make the TextView have margin that is the max of both. There is even a library for this, "Toolbar-Center-Title"... But again, this is a workaround. Not what I'm asking about.
The question
Is there now an official way to have a centered title on the Toolbar, no matter how many action items there are, and no matter what's on the other side (up button, for example) ?
If so, how can this be done?
NOTE: Again, I'm not interested in workarounds. There are plenty of workarounds and I can think of such by myself.
TL;DR: No, there's currently no official way to center the title on a toolbar.
I don't think there is an official way to do it, at least not yet. But I know that the Flutter framework supports it and it's pretty straight forward: you simply need to pass centerTitle: true to the appbar constructor, as described in this answer. And there's a good chance that the apps you've mentioned in your question were built with Flutter, since both are from Google.
I think the closest workaround to your expected layout is having the TextView on top of the Toolbar, as shown here:
<android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
android:id="#+id/appbar_layout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:theme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.ActionBar">
</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>
<TextView
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="#string/app_name"/>
</RelativeLayout>
</android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>
But it would be really nice if the official Android API could support this the same way flutter does. Maybe you'd like to send a feature request to the Material Components Android Issue Tracker?
Now We have an official way to center the title on a toolbar using Material Design 3
Using Material Design 3 we can align the title in the center without doing extra work or without adding text view in toolbar
To align the title in the center We need to use the below properly
app:titleCentered="true"
To align subtitles in the center we need to use the below property
app:subtitleCentered="true"
Sample Code
<com.google.android.material.appbar.AppBarLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<com.google.android.material.appbar.MaterialToolbar
android:id="#+id/topAppBar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
app:title="Center Aligned title"
app:subtitle="Sub title"
app:subtitleCentered="true"
app:menu="#menu/top_app_bar"
app:titleCentered="true"
app:navigationIcon="#drawable/ic_android_black_24dp" />
</com.google.android.material.appbar.AppBarLayout>
OUTPUT
How about textAlignment="center"? a RelativeLayout does the trick, when AppCompatTextView has set layout_width="match_parent"; for example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<androidx.appcompat.widget.LinearLayoutCompat
android:id="#+id/customView"
android:minHeight="?android:attr/actionBarSize"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:gravity="top">
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<!-- Home Button -->
<include
layout="#layout/button_home_menu"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="start"/>
<androidx.appcompat.widget.LinearLayoutCompat
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:padding="8dp">
<androidx.appcompat.widget.AppCompatTextView
android:id="#+id/title"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="#string/app_name"
android:textAlignment="center"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"
android:textSize="18sp"
android:textStyle="bold"/>
<androidx.appcompat.widget.AppCompatTextView
android:id="#+id/subtitle"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="#string/app_version"
android:textAlignment="center"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium"
android:textSize="12sp"
android:textStyle="bold"/>
</androidx.appcompat.widget.LinearLayoutCompat>
</RelativeLayout>
</androidx.appcompat.widget.LinearLayoutCompat>
</layout>
the down-side is, that when showing several menu-items as action buttons - or when displaying extraordinary long strings as title, the title may overlap them - but when only showing one or two action buttons in combination with a title that fits the visually available width, this works just fine - that's because menu config ifRoom would always apply, because there is room. else one could only measure, which side of the toolbar has the most wide items' container - and then adjust the width on the other side's items' container. scaling the font-size depending on the available room might also be an option, to make it fit dynamically.
No official way to do it but subclassing provides most coverage without crazy tricks.
https://gist.github.com/bmc08gt/40a151e93969f2633b9b92bca4b31e83
app:contentInsetStart="#dimen/margin_64" //64dp
app:contentInsetEnd="#dimen/margin_64" // 64dp
toolabr section
<com.google.android.material.appbar.AppBarLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent">
<com.google.android.material.appbar.MaterialToolbar
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:gravity="center_horizontal"
app:contentInsetEnd="#dimen/margin_64"
app:contentInsetStart="#dimen/margin_64">
<TextView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Create"
android:gravity="center_horizontal"
android:textColor="#color/white"
android:textSize="18sp" />
</com.google.android.material.appbar.MaterialToolbar>
</com.google.android.material.appbar.AppBarLayout>
this is a very weird problem that I am facing for quite a lot of time. I was able to fix an issue which prevented any sort of widgets not appearing in an activity preview tab by adding "Base." to the theme. If I test it on my device, I can see my custom toolbar but in Android studio`s preview tab it all appears white. What I have tried:
1- Restarted Android studio
2- Invalidated caches and restarted Android studio
3- Changing app theme to different
toolbar.xml
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="100dp"
android:background="#263238"
android:elevation="8dp"
android:theme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/refToolbarTitleID"
style="#style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Widget.ActionBar.Title"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="start" />
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="TEST TEXT" />
</RelativeLayout>
I can not properly setup my toolbar. Any help is appreciated, thanks!
Your forgot to add </android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar> at the end of your XML.
I think you using the toolbar in a wrong way, you have to put the toolbar inside a root layout, just like you would do it with buttons or textviews, and then you have to pin it to the top side of the screen.
I'm looking for a custom TabLayout. The icon of the Tab in the middle needs a margin to overlay the content. Please check out the image below.
What I've tried so far
Tab.setCustomView() with a margin. That doesn't overlay the content though.
Looked for TabLayout libraries that give such flexibility. Didn't find anything that fits my need.
Re-invent the wheel?
Since I don't need any complicated scrolling functionality, I could develop my own TabLayout with a couple ViewGroups,TextView and ImageView. Before I have to do that:
Do you know of any library that would do that?
How would you approach it?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I achieved that by the combination of a custom library and the floating action button.
The library: MagicIndicator on GitHub
I set the icon of the middle fragment to an empty icon and positioned the floating action button in the middle to overlay the TabLayout. It looks like this:
My activity layout:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:id="#+id/main_content"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
tools:context=".MainActivity">
<android.support.v4.view.ViewPager
android:id="#+id/container"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_gravity="top"
android:layout_marginBottom="50dp"
app:layout_behavior="#string/appbar_scrolling_behavior" />
<net.lucode.hackware.magicindicator.MagicIndicator
android:id="#+id/magic_indicator"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="50dp"
android:background="#color/light_gray"
android:layout_gravity="bottom" />
<android.support.design.widget.FloatingActionButton
android:id="#+id/fab"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center|bottom"
android:layout_margin="10dp"
app:srcCompat="#drawable/add_icon"
app:backgroundTint="#color/colorPrimary"/>
</android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout>