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How to add a TabView beneath AppBar without shadow

In my application I have an issue where I want to have high level navigational control from a navigation drawer, and page level control within a TabLayout within a fragment. This however causes issues with the shadow rendering from the AppBar onto the fragment.
Here's the basics of what my layouts and code does. At the root I have this simple 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:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
tools:context=".MainAppActivity">
<android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="match_parent" android:theme="#style/AppTheme.AppBarOverlay">
<android.support.v7.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" />
</android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>
<include layout="#layout/content_main" />
</android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout>
When my navigation drawer is selected I inflate the fragment into "content_main"
this.getSupportFragmentManager()
.beginTransaction()
.addToBackStack(tag)
.replace(R.id.content_main_layout, fragment, tag)
.commit();
The fragment being put into content_main contains a layout with my TabView and a view pager:
<LinearLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/fragment_github_issues"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
<android.support.design.widget.TabLayout
android:id="#+id/github_issues_tab_layout"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_gravity="top"
android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
android:theme="#style/AppTheme.AppBarOverlay"/>
<android.support.v4.view.ViewPager
android:id="#+id/github_issues_viewpager"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"/>
</LinearLayout>
What's the a good best practice to fix the issue? Is including TabLayout to live within the top level AppBar and just disabling the view based on the page an acceptable implementation?

First you need to change the view hierarchy to something like this:
FrameLayout
-CoordinatorLayout -> content
-Toolbar
Fix Toolbar elevation to be exact with the AppBarLayout, too get rid of the shadow but keep the z-order of the Toolbar:
int appBarLayoutElevation = ViewCompat.getElevation(mAppBarLayout);
getActivity().getSupportActionBar().setElevation(appBarLayout);
Similar example I have worked in my blog post.

Using activity with drawer, scrolling toolbar, tabs and different fragments

I'm looking for best practices when it comes to the following pretty common setup:
What I'm currently doing is:
My Main Activity has a navigation drawer and a Toolbar.
When you click on one of the list items inside the drawer a fragment is loaded under the toolbar. Some fragments have their own tabs inside using viewpager ect.
I would like to make use of the material functionalities like hiding the toolbar while scrolling ect. It is no problem to get it done.
But there is a problem when only some of your fragments would like to make use of the scrolling toolbar. Using a normal Scrollview does solve the problem if you can add an additional margin at the bottom, but once you have a keyboard it will mess up as the scroll is wrong. Using a nestedscrollview works but does scroll the toolbar.
So how can I avoid the scrolling toolbar when my activity holds the toolbar and some fragments that scroll should make use of it and some not?
Is the architectural design wrong? Another thing I thought is to have the different toolbars inside of each fragment... but they have to share the same navigation drawer so you have to create and add the ToggleButton each time? Is it the right approach ? Should I go that path? I'm not convinced and would like to have the opinion of somebody more experienced then me. What's the best solution in this case.
Appreciate your help!
Cheers
EDIT:
Main Activity
<android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout
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/drawer_layout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:fitsSystemWindows="true">
<android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:id="#+id/fragment_container_first"
>
<android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
android:id="#+id/appBar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:theme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar"
>
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?android:attr/actionBarSize"
app:layout_scrollFlags="scroll|enterAlways"
app:popupTheme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light">
</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>
</android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/owner_main_container"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_below="#+id/appBar"
android:orientation="horizontal"
app:layout_behavior="#string/appbar_scrolling_view_behavior" />
<android.support.design.widget.FloatingActionButton
android:id="#+id/fab_add"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_margin="#dimen/fab_margin"
android:src="#drawable/addicon"
app:fabSize="normal"
app:layout_anchor="#id/owner_main_container"
app:layout_anchorGravity="bottom|right|end"
app:layout_behavior="xxx.Classes.Misc.ScrollAwareFABBehavior"
/>
</android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout>
<!-- The navigation drawer -->
<android.support.design.widget.NavigationView
android:id="#+id/navigation_view"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_gravity="start"
app:menu="#menu/drawerhost" />

I am also Using navigation drawer and tool bar please import project from this link
And try to understand how to use navigation drawer and tool bar using fragment

CoordinatorLayout and hiding the toolbar

I'm using a single activity - multiple fragments structure.On the activity i'm using v7 toolbar as action bar . I have sever fragments with viewpagers , some with tabs as well.In one of my fragments i have recyclerview . My goal is when i'm scrolling i wanna collapse the bar and hide the floating action button.My floating button is on inside a CoordinatorLayout so it can be displayed properly.But this is inside the layout of the fragment(which is part of a viewpager) , and the activity_main.xml has root element another CoordinatorLayout. Does the fragment CL intercepts the work of the CL inside the layout of the activity,because when i scroll the recycler nothing happens.
Should i use new toolbar for every fragment or i can use one in the
activity and implement different behavior for into fragments?
Can anyone references any examples of using CoordinatorLayout and
collapsing the bar within nested fragments?
activity_main.xml
<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:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:gravity="center"
android:orientation="vertical">
<android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
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="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
app:layout_scrollFlags="scroll|enterAlways" />
</android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>
<FrameLayout
android:id="#+id/fragment_container"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
tools:context=".MainActivity" />
</android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout>

The work of the main CoordinatorLayout wasn't intercepted.Adding app:layout_behavior to the frame layout which is fragment container did the job.
Looks like this now:
<FrameLayout
android:id="#+id/fragment_container"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
app:layout_behavior="#string/appbar_scrolling_view_behavior"
tools:context=".MainActivity" />

Toggling visibility AppBarLayout views causes spacing issues for loaded Fragments

I encountered a strange problem with the new Android Design Support Librar (http://android-developers.blogspot.com.ar/2015/05/android-design-support-library.html). If I place additional content (like a LinearLayout) in an AppBarLayout along with the ToolBar and toggle the visibility of that content then switching fragments will have show a dead space at the top of the fragment content.
It appears that AppBarLayout isn't resizing the parent CoordinatorLayout correctly when visibility of the content is toggled. I have my CoordinatorLayout wrapped in the DrawerLayout. I want to toggle the visibility of the extra LinearLayout in the AppBarLayout depending on the which fragment shown.
Here is my main.xml file for the MainActivity:
<android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout
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/drawer_layout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:fitsSystemWindows="true">
<android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_width="match_parent">
<android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
android:id="#+id/appBarLayout"
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="?attr/actionBarSize"/>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:gravity="center_vertical"">
<TextView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="start"
android:text="Hello"/>
</LinearLayout>
</android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>
<FrameLayout
app:layout_behavior="#string/appbar_scrolling_view_behavior"
android:id="#+id/content_frame"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"/>
</android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout>
<android.support.design.widget.NavigationView
android:id="#+id/navigation"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_gravity="start"
app:menu="#menu/drawer"/>
</android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout>

I had a similar problem using the support design widget. I had a CoordinatorLayout inside a DrawerLayout and an AppBarLayout inside the CoordinatorLayout. I had two toolbars inside the AppBarLayout. My aim was to display a toolbar with a ViewPager displaying a recyclerview content. I wanted to swop between the toolbars when selecting items. In other words, I made one toolbar GONE while the other was visible and vise versa. Scrolling the content up would push the toolbar up off the top of the screen. Everything worked perfectly except that changing orientation would show a space for the toolbar that should be gone. I tried every hack I could think of to get rid of it but did not succeed. I then came across this post and realized that it was a bug in the support library. I then tried putting a FrameLayout in the AppBarLayout and then put the two toolbars inside the FrameLayout and NO MORE SPACE! everything now works as I intend it to work. GONE toolbars are GONE and only the visible toolbar shows, even when changing the orientation.
Hope this helps someone.

Overlaying content above AppBarLayout using new Material Design

I want to achieve something like that. (not the FAB or the Snackbar). How can i create a layout, overlaying the AppBarLayout? Like this! (For Example)
Like Play Store:
My AppBarLayout with CoordinatorLayout and NestedScrollView with RelativeLayout as content looks like this:
<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/rootLayout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="#dimen/_118sdp"
android:theme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar">
<android.support.design.widget.CollapsingToolbarLayout
android:id="#+id/collapsingToolbarLayout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
app:contentScrim="#color/mpc_pink"
app:expandedTitleMarginStart="#dimen/_40sdp"
app:layout_scrollFlags="scroll|exitUntilCollapsed">
<de.mypostcardstore.widgets.ItemImageView
android:id="#+id/header"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:scaleType="centerCrop"
android:src="#color/mpc_pink"
app:layout_collapseMode="parallax"
app:layout_collapseParallaxMultiplier="0.7" />
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/article_toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
app:contentScrim="#color/mpc_pink"
app:layout_collapseMode="pin"
app:layout_scrollFlags="scroll|enterAlways"
app:popupTheme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light"
app:theme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar" />
</android.support.design.widget.CollapsingToolbarLayout>
</android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>
<android.support.v4.widget.NestedScrollView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="?android:colorBackground"
android:fillViewport="true"
app:layout_behavior="#string/appbar_scrolling_view_behavior">
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent".....>
It would be awesome if someone could help me out. I can not find anything on the internet...
Thanks in advance!

Just add something like
app:behavior_overlapTop="64dp"
to your NestedScrollView and it will be placed above the expanded toolbar.
In addition, you should add something like
app:expandedTitleMarginBottom="70dp"
to your CollapsingToolbarLayout so the title does not appear under your overlaid scroll content.

It's quite simple, really. You could achieve that by using a combination of ToolBar, FrameLayout, and your content view (could be a ListView like your first example, or anything).
The idea is to make your FrameLayout possess the same color as your ToolBar, giving the illusion of ToolBar being much larger than it is. Then all that is left to do is to make your content view be the last (or in API 21 and above: possess the highest elevation attribute) so that it would appear as if it floats above the aforementioned FrameLayout.
See my illustration below:
Now that you got the big idea, below is some real live XML snippet for doing such thing. (I actually use this layout in one of my apps) :
<!-- Somewhere in your layout.xml -->
....
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/tb_toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="#dimen/abc_action_bar_default_height_material"
android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
app:contentInsetStart="72dp"
app:popupTheme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light"
app:theme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar"/>
<!-- This is the 'faux' ToolBar I've been telling you about. This is the part that will be overlaid by the content view below. -->
<FrameLayout
android:id="#+id/v_toolbar_extension"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="64dp"
android:layout_below="#+id/tb_toolbar"
android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
android:elevation="2dp"/>
<!-- Normally, I use this FrameLayout as a base for inflating my fragments. You could just use put your content view here. -->
<FrameLayout
android:id="#+id/ly_content"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_below="#+id/tb_toolbar"
android:elevation="3dp"/>
....
Note that my ly_content has higher elevation value than that of v_toolbar_extension. This is what will give you that desired 'overlaid toolbar' effect.
Last but not least, you would want to add this line somewhere in your activity's onCreate() :
/* Assuming mToolbar exists as a reference to your ToolBar in XML. */
setSupportActionBar(mTbToolbar);
getSupportActionBar().setElevation(0);
What that codes woud do is to set your ToolBar elevation to zero; removing preset shadows that were given as a default to ToolBars. If you don't do this, said shadow will create a "seam" between your ToolBar and your FrameLayout, thus breaking the illusion of those two being the same.
p.s., It is also important to give your content view a padding on each side. Doing so, your content view will not cover the entire width of the screen (which would render this effect useless).
Note: I see some good answers here that mentioned the absence of FrameLayout and instead making the ToolBar taller. While in theory it might work as well as my proposed solution, you might have problems when trying to manipulate scrolling; by doing that, you won't be able to separate ToolBar and its extension. You'll be forced to either make the Toolbar static or scroll all of the ToolBar altogether (makes scrolling a bit weird).
Add to that, the fact that you can't easily assign a custom drawable into a Toolbar. Hence makes it hard to follow the Google Play example you've given above. While if you're using my solution, all you'd need to do is just make your Toolbar transparent and assign the drawable to the FrameLayout instead.

I had a similar requirement and I achieved it as below.
Your activity theme should extend Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar.
I created a Layout XML File as:
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/toolbar_main"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="#dimen/action_bar_size_x2"
android:background="#color/colorPrimary"
android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize" />
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_marginLeft="15dp"
android:layout_marginRight="15dp"
android:layout_marginTop="#dimen/action_bar_size"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<android.support.v7.widget.CardView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" >
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<TextView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_margin="10dp"
android:text="#string/app_name"
android:textSize="24sp" />
</LinearLayout>
</android.support.v7.widget.CardView>
</LinearLayout>
And the Activity should be something like this:
public class MainActivity extends ActionBarActivity {
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
Toolbar maintoolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar_main);
setSupportActionBar(maintoolbar);
getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
}
}
I got a view like this :

I did try to implement effects like you referred which is called Card Toolbar in Android, and it did work as expected. Here is my layout, Take a look at it:
<FrameLayout 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="match_parent"
android:background="#color/background_material_light" >
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="#dimen/toolbar_double_height"
android:background="?attr/colorPrimary" />
<android.support.v7.widget.CardView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_marginLeft="#dimen/cardview_toolbar_spacer"
android:layout_marginRight="#dimen/cardview_toolbar_spacer"
android:layout_marginTop="?attr/actionBarSize"
app:cardBackgroundColor="#android:color/white">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize" />
<View
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="1dp"
android:alpha="0.12"
android:background="#android:color/black" />
</LinearLayout>
</android.support.v7.widget.CardView>
</FrameLayout>
Hope you'll be inspired.