I want to change the background color of the overflow popup menu to match the background of the main screen. Does anyone know how I could do that?
Thanks.
If you are using a Toolbar, first you need to add this line to your toolbar layout:
app:popupTheme="#style/ThemeOverlay.MyTheme"
It should look like this:
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:id="#+id/toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:background="#color/primary"
app:titleTextColor="#color/white"
app:layout_scrollFlags="scroll|enterAlways"
app:popupTheme="#style/ThemeOverlay.MyTheme"/>
You need to use that line to tell your Toolbar which theme to use. Then, you add the following theme to your styles.xml file:
<style name="ThemeOverlay.MyTheme" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light">
<item name="android:colorBackground">#color/primary</item>
<item name="android:textColor">#color/white</item>
</style>
In the place I put "#color/primary" and "#color/white", you can use any color you want, and you can also put hex values like #000000.
I have to show back icon, Logo and text (Next) in Toolbar. Next is right aligned. I tried placing text via menu. I have set logo and back button to toolbar.
toolbar.setLogo(R.mipmap.logo);
toolbar.setNavigationIcon(R.mipmap.back);
Also, I have inflated following menu in onCreateOptionsMenu
Menu inflated:
<menu 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"
>
<item
android:id="#+id/action_next"
android:title="#string/next"
app:showAsAction="always" />
Text Menu is not visible at all. if I put icon in menu item, it gets displayed.
I have used android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar.
Edited:
I solved it. In case someone else gets struck with such issue.
Please add
<item name="android:actionMenuTextColor">#color/blue</item>
in styles. Menu itemw as getting selected on click but was not visible, means it was showing white text color on white toolbar. Setting menuText color solved my problem.
Android Documentation explains that the withText option for showAsAction will
Also include the title text (defined by android:title) with the action item.
Since that is what you want, code the following.
<item
android:id="#+id/action_next"
android:title="#string/next"
app:showAsAction="always|withText" />
You can do something like this:
First, remove default title in your Activity:
getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);
Then, your toolbar layout can be like this:
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/toolbar_layout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:id="#+id/toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:background="#color/material_blue"
android:elevation="5dp"
android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/toolbar_title"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="end"
android:gravity="end"
android:text="#string/app_name"
android:textColor="#android:color/white" />
</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>
</LinearLayout>
And, in your activity handle the click event:
toolbarTop.findViewById(R.id.toolbar_title).setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
Log.d(TAG,"Clicked");
}
});
Try Changing to support widget. This worked for me
app:actionViewClass="android.support.v7.widget.SearchView"
This what it looked after the change
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools">
<item android:id="#+id/search"
android:title="#string/search_title"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_search"
app:showAsAction="always|withText"
app:actionViewClass="android.support.v7.widget.SearchView"
tools:context=".AppHome.HomeActivity"/>
</menu>
If you are getting an empty action with no text but blank space in it,
it might happen if you have created your own tool bar in the layout and have also used the Action bar in your theme's parent.
If you are creating your own toolbar then use parent="Theme.MaterialComponents.DayNight.NoActionBar" in your themes, both normal and night themes.
It's happening because of the style used in your layout.
To solve this, define a new style and use it in your layout.
<style name="ToolBarStyle" parent="ThemeOverlay.MaterialComponents.Dark.ActionBar">
<item name="android:itemBackground">#fff</item> // background color of the menus
<item name="android:textColor">#000</item>// text color of the menus
</style>
Use it like this in your layout
<com.google.android.material.appbar.MaterialToolbar
android:id="#+id/my_toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
app:theme="#style/ToolBarStyle"
app:popupTheme="#style/ThemeOverlay.MaterialComponents.Light"
android:background="#color/primary_pink"
android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:elevation="4dp"
/>
I am using the android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar in my activity.
I added it into my layout for the activity as following:
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/add_contact_toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:background="#color/colorPrimary"
android:elevation="6dp"
android:title="#string/add_contact_toolbar_title"
android:popupTheme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light"
android:theme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar"/>
</RelativeLayout>
I inflate the options menu in onCreateOptionsMenu of the activity and I
inflate my menu.xml :
<menu
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">
<item
android:id="#+id/add_contact_optionmenu_save"
android:title="#string/add_contact_optionmenu_save"
app:showAsAction="always"/>
</menu>
But unfortunately, the item appears way too far right and is too small:
How can I make it to appear like in all other apps? Bigger, and with more
right margin?
Cheers!
Well to move the MenuItem to a bit left from the right edge, you need to set paddingRight attribute to the android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar.
android:paddingRight="20dp"
To change the size, add the following style <item> to your App Theme.
<item name="actionMenuTextAppearance">#style/ActionBar.MenuTextStyle</item>
<item name="android:actionMenuTextAppearance">#style/ActionBar.MenuTextStyle</item>
<style name="ActionBar.MenuTextStyle"
parent="android:style/TextAppearance.Holo.Widget.ActionBar.Title">
<item name="android:textSize">48dp</item>
</style>
All this being said, a better design pattern is simply to go ahead and follow the Material Design guidelines. I would suggest you have an icon for save rather than the text.
I have a menu layout with only one item in it.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">
<item
android:id="#+id/toolbar_right_button"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_toolbar_locked"
android:orderInCategory="1"
android:title="Logout"
app:showAsAction="always|withText"/>
</menu>
As you can see I've included the withText attribute but I still only get the icon.
How can I get both the icon and text to show?
I agree with your answer, but I had to do some digging to get it to work in my code, ultimately, I had to create an onClickListener for the button.
In my code, I wrote in the onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) method:
menu.getItem(indexInMenu).getActionView().findViewById(R.id.button_logout).setOnClickListener(...);
This makes the menuItem responsive when it's replaced with a button in app:actionLayout
I'm not sure why withText wouldn't work for me so I just created an actionLayout to use instead.
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">
<item
android:id="#+id/toolbar_right_button"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_toolbar_locked"
android:orderInCategory="1"
android:title="Logout"
app:actionLayout="#layout/menu_item_logout"
app:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText"/>
</menu>
and the actionLayout:
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<Button
android:id="#+id/logout_button"
style="?android:attr/borderlessButtonStyle"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:drawableRight="#drawable/ic_toolbar_locked"
android:gravity="center_vertical"
android:text="Logout"
android:textColor="#color/PrimaryColour"/>
</RelativeLayout>
I have try your menu xml, and it worked on android 4.1.1, 5.0.0
but it not worked on 4.3
to fix this, please refer to How to get text on an ActionBar Icon?
it use custom layout for the item
You could try:
<menu 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"
tools:context=".MainActivity" >
<!-- "Mark Favorite", should appear as action button if possible -->
<!-- Settings, should always be in the overflow -->
<item
android:title="Settings"
android:id="#+id/mainMenu"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_3d_rotation_black_24dp"
app:showAsAction="always">
<menu>
<item
android:id="#+id/menu_logout1"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_3d_rotation_black_24dp"
android:title="logout1"/>
<item
android:id="#+id/menu_logout3"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_3d_rotation_black_24dp"
android:title="logout3"/>
</menu>
</item>
<item
android:id="#+id/menu_logout2"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_3d_rotation_black_24dp"
android:title="logout2"
app:showAsAction="always"/>
</menu>
Note, that this example will also paint some icons, so if you don´t want the icons, just remove the icon attribute.
Remove icon from <item
android:icon="#drawable/ic_baseline_add_24"
Remove this line then it will show hope it worked for u
When the text in your toolbar menu items is not showing, this is probably related to your style settings. For example, when you have organized your style in a way that app title in toolbar is shown in white color, your menu items may become white on white.
To solve this, you need to set two attributes to your toolbar:
This is the general Style for the toolbar. Textcolor is white. Maybe you are using something like this when you are facing the "no text"-issue
<style name="ToolBarStyle" parent="ThemeOverlay.MaterialComponents.Dark.ActionBar">
<item name="android:textColorPrimary">#android:color/white</item>
<item name="android:textColorSecondary">#android:color/white</item>
</style>
To make sure that text in menu is showing, not only set the app:theme of your toolbar but also the app:popuptheme. In this example popuptheme is set to a light theme because this leads to black text.
<androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:background="#color/supplyon_blue"
app:theme="#style/ToolBarStyle"
app:popupTheme="#style/ThemeOverlay.MaterialComponents.Light"
android:id="#+id/toolbar" />
Play around with this setting and it will probably solve your problem.
Does anybody know how to set padding between the ActionBar's home icon and the title?
EDIT: make sure you set this drawable as LOGO, not as your app icon like some of the commenters did.
Just make an XML drawable and put it in the resource folder "drawable" (without any density or other configuration).
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item
android:drawable="#drawable/my_logo"
android:right="10dp"/>
</layer-list>
The last step is to set this new drawable as logo in your manifest (or on the Actionbar object in your activity)
Good luck!
I adapted Cliffus answer and assigned the logo-drawable in my actionbar style definition, for instance like this in res/style.xml:
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/MyActionBar</item>
<style name="MyActionBar" parent="#android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar">
<item name="android:background">#3f51b5</item>
<item name="android:titleTextStyle">#style/ActionBar.TitleText</item>
<item name="android:textColor">#fff</item>
<item name="android:textSize">18sp</item>
<item name="android:logo">#drawable/actionbar_space_between_icon_and_title</item>
</style>
The drawable looks like Cliffus' one (here with the default app launcher icon) in res/drawable/actionbar_space_between_icon_and_title.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item
android:drawable="#drawable/ic_launcher"
android:right="20dp"/>
</layer-list>
In the android_manifest.xml you can still set a different app icon (launcher icon on 'desktop'. Any different logo definition here are visible in activities without an action bar.
I also faced a similar issue, in my case I had to set titles dynamically on each activity depending on the content.
So this worked for me.
actionBar.setTitle(" " + yourActivityTitle);
If all you want is the spacing, this is the easiest solution I could think of.
This is how I was able to set the padding between the home icon and the title.
ImageView view = (ImageView)findViewById(android.R.id.home);
view.setPadding(left, top, right, bottom);
I couldn't find a way to customize this via the ActionBar xml styles though. That is, the following XML doesn't work:
<style name="ActionBar" parent="android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar">
<item name="android:titleTextStyle">#style/ActionBarTitle</item>
<item name="android:icon">#drawable/ic_action_home</item>
</style>
<style name="ActionBarTitle" parent="android:style/TextAppearance.Holo.Widget.ActionBar.Title">
<item name="android:textSize">18sp</item>
<item name="android:paddingLeft">12dp</item> <!-- Can't get this padding to work :( -->
</style>
However, if you are looking to achieve this through xml, these two links might help you find a solution:
https://github.com/android/platform_frameworks_base/blob/master/core/res/res/values/styles.xml
(This is the actual layout used to display the home icon in an action bar)
https://github.com/android/platform_frameworks_base/blob/master/core/res/res/layout/action_bar_home.xml
This is a common question in Material Design as you may want to line your toolbars title with the content in the fragment below. To do this, you can override the default padding of "12dp" by using the attribute contentInsetStart="72dp" in your toolbar.xml layout as shown below
toolbar.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:id="#+id/toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#color/app_theme_color"
app:contentInsetStart="72dp"/>
Then in your activity, call
Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) activity.findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
toolbar.setTitle("Title Goes Here");
And you end up with this:
If you are using toolbar from AppCompat (android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar, >= revision 24, June 2016), the padding between the icon and the title can be changed with the following value :
app:contentInsetStartWithNavigation="0dp"
To improve my answer, you can use it on your toolbar directly inside your activity or you can create a new layout file for your toolbar. In this case, you just have to import your toolbar's #id using the include property on each needed views.
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:elevation="4dp"
app:contentInsetLeft="0dp"
app:contentInsetStart="0dp"
app:contentInsetStartWithNavigation="0dp">
</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>
You can then import your layout on your activity.xml
<include
layout="#layout/toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
For me only the following combination worked, tested from API 18 to 24
app:contentInsetLeft="0dp"
app:contentInsetStart="0dp"
app:contentInsetStartWithNavigation="0dp"
where in "app" is : xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
for example.
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:background="#color/SE_Life_Green"
app:contentInsetLeft="0dp"
app:contentInsetStart="0dp"
app:contentInsetStartWithNavigation="0dp"
>
.......
.......
.......
</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>
Using titleMarginStart works for me. Xamarin example:
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:id="#+id/toolbar"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
app:titleMarginStart="24dp"/>
Set the logo like so:
mToolbar = FindViewById<SupportToolbar>(Resource.Id.toolbar);
SetSupportActionBar(mToolbar);
SupportActionBar.SetLogo(Resource.Drawable.titleicon32x32);
SupportActionBar.SetDisplayShowHomeEnabled(true);
SupportActionBar.SetDisplayUseLogoEnabled(true);
SupportActionBar.Title = "App title";
I used \t before the title and worked for me.
Im using a custom image instead of the default title text to the right of my apps logo. This is set up programatically like
actionBar.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
actionBar.setDisplayUseLogoEnabled(true);
actionBar.setCustomView(R.layout.include_ab_txt_logo);
actionBar.setDisplayShowCustomEnabled(true);
The issues with the above answers for me are #Cliffus's suggestion does not work for me due to the issues others have outlined in the comments and while #dushyanth programatic padding setting may have worked in the past I would think that the fact that the spacing is now set using android:layout_marginEnd="8dip" since API 17 manually setting the padding should have no effect. See the link he posted to git to verify its current state.
A simple solution for me is to set a negative margin on my custom view in the actionBar, like so android:layout_marginLeft="-14dp". A quick test shows it works for me on 2.3.3 and 4.3 using ActionBarCompat
Hope this helps someone!
I solved this problem by using custom Navigation layout
Using it you can customize anything in title on action bar:
build.gradle
dependencies {
compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:21.0.+'
...
}
AndroidManifest.xml
<application
android:icon="#drawable/ic_launcher"
android:label="#string/app_name">
<activity
android:name=".MainActivity"
android:theme="#style/ThemeName">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
</application>
styles.xml
<style name="ThemeName" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">
<item name="actionBarStyle">#style/ActionBar</item>
<item name="android:actionBarStyle" tools:ignore="NewApi">#style/ActionBar</item>
<style name="ActionBar" parent="Widget.AppCompat.ActionBar">
<item name="displayOptions">showCustom</item>
<item name="android:displayOptions" tools:ignore="NewApi">showCustom</item>
<item name="customNavigationLayout">#layout/action_bar</item>
<item name="android:customNavigationLayout" tools:ignore="NewApi">#layout/action_bar</item>
<item name="background">#color/android:white</item>
<item name="android:background">#color/android:white</item>
action_bar.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TextView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/action_bar_title"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="center_vertical"
android:drawableLeft="#drawable/ic_launcher"
android:drawablePadding="10dp"
android:textSize="20sp"
android:textColor="#android:color/black"
android:text="#string/app_name"/>
I had a similar issue but with spacing between the up and the custom app icon/logo in the action bar. Dushyanth's solution of setting padding programatically worked for me (setting padding on app/logo icon). I tried to find either android.R.id.home or R.id.abs__home (ActionBarSherlock only, as this ensures backwards compatibility), and it seems to work across 2.3-4.3 devices I've tested on.
For my case, it was with Toolbar i resolved it like this:
ic_toolbar_drawble.xml
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item
android:drawable="#drawable/ic_toolbar"
android:right="-16dp"
android:left="-16dp"/>
</layer-list>
In my Fragment, i check the api :
if (android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP)
toolbar.setLogo(R.drawable.ic_toolbar);
else
toolbar.setLogo(R.drawable.ic_toolbar_draweble);
Good luck!
You can change drawableSize of your DrawerArrow like this:
<style name="MyTheme" parent="android:Theme.WithActionBar">
<item name="drawerArrowStyle">#style/DrawerArrowStyle</item>
</style>
<style name="DrawerArrowStyle" parent="Widget.AppCompat.DrawerArrowToggle">
<item name="barLength">24dp</item>
<item name="arrowShaftLength">24dp</item>
<item name="arrowHeadLength">10dp</item>
<item name="drawableSize">42dp</item> //this is your answer
</style>
It isn't correct answer, because you can't choose padding side and DrawerArrow icon scaling when change drawableSize (drawableSize = width = height). But you can margin from left. To margin from right do
findViewById(android.R.id.home).setPadding(10, 0, 5, 0);
I used this method setContentInsetsAbsolute(int contentInsetLeft, int contentInsetRight) and it works!
int padding = getResources().getDimensionPixelSize(R.dimen.toolbar_content_insets);
mToolbar.setContentInsetsAbsolute(padding, 0);
When you are using a custom Toolbar, you can use
toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
toolbar.setTitle(R.string.activity_title);
setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
getSupportActionBar().setLogo(R.drawable.logo);
and in your toolbar layout simply set app:titleMarginStart="16dp"
Note that you have to set the icon as a logo, don't use getSupportActionBar().setIcon(R.drawable.logo)
instead use:
getSupportActionBar().setLogo(R.drawable.logo)
I used AppBarLayout and custom ImageButton do to so.
<android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
android:id="#+id/appbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
app:elevation="0dp"
android:background="#android:color/transparent"
android:theme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar">
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<ImageView
android:layout_width="32dp"
android:layout_height="32dp"
android:src="#drawable/selector_back_button"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:layout_marginLeft="8dp"
android:id="#+id/back_button"/>
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
app:popupTheme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light"/>
</RelativeLayout>
</android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>
My Java code:
findViewById(R.id.appbar).bringToFront();
Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
final ActionBar ab = getSupportActionBar();
getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);
You can achieve same by method as well:
Drawable d = new InsetDrawable(getDrawable(R.drawable.nav_icon),0,0,10,0);
mToolbar.setLogo(d);
In your XML, set the app:titleMargin in your Toolbar view as following:
<androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
app:titleMarginStart="16dp"/>
Or in your code:
toolbar.setTitleMargin(16,16,16,16); // start, top, end, bottom
Just include:
app:titleMargin="10dp"
Within your xml file, like:
<androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/tbrMain"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
app:titleMargin="10dp"
android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:theme="?attr/actionBarTheme" />
this work for me to add padding to the title and for ActionBar icon i have set that programmatically.
getActionBar().setTitle(Html.fromHtml("<font color='#fffff'> Boat App </font>"));
<string name="app_name">" "Brick Industry</string>
Just add " " for your app name
It will add space between icon and title