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I have to change the style of my toolbar. Currently my toolbar's background colour is dark and the title is light colour. So i need to change it programmatically, the background and text colour.
You could try creating two different toolbar xml and styles for light and dark toolbars. you could swap out one toolbar by another having different different styles.
Create Two Styles:
<style name="ToolbarStyle" parent="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.ActionBar">
<item name="android:background">#color/white</item>
<item name="colorControlNormal">#color/text_3</item>
</style>
<style name="ToolbarStyleDark" parent="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.ActionBar">
<item name="android:background">#color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
<item name="colorControlNormal">#color/white</item>
<item name="android:textColorPrimary">#color/white</item>
</style>
And Create Two Toolbars:
toolbar 1:
<?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/white"
android:minHeight="?actionBarSize"
android:textColor="#color/black"
android:theme="#style/ToolbarStyle"
app:layout_collapseMode="pin"
app:layout_scrollFlags="scroll|enterAlways"></android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>
Toolbar 2 :
<?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_dark"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#color/black"
android:minHeight="?actionBarSize"
android:textColor="#color/white"
android:theme="#style/ToolbarStyleDark"
app:layout_collapseMode="pin"
app:layout_scrollFlags="scroll|enterAlways"
app:theme="#style/ToolbarStyleDark">
</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>
And change the toolbar in code when necessary using inflating and adding the toolbar to the layout and removing the original toolbar and setting as the toolbar using setSupportActionbar()
toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
View lytToolbarDark = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.toolbar_dark, coordinatorLayout);
Toolbar toolbarDark = lytToolbarDark.findViewById(R.id.toolbar_dark);
coordinatorLayout.removeView(toolbar);
setSupportActionBar(toolbarDark);
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.
First I set AppBarLayout theme via xml:
<android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout
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:fitsSystemWindows="true">
<android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
android:id="#+id/appbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:theme="#style/MyTheme.AppBarOverlay">
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
app:popupTheme="#style/MyTheme.PopupOverlay"
app:titleTextAppearance="#style/MyTheme.Toolbar.Title" />
where #style/MyTheme.AppBarOverlay contains:
<style name="MyTheme.AppBarOverlay" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar">
<item name="colorPrimary">#drawable/toolbar_background</item>
</style>
But then in some scenarios I want to change it programmatically without change the Theme of the activity (only the Theme of the AppBarLayout).
I have tried these two ways without success:
First:
ActionBar actionBar = getSupportActionBar();
actionBar.getThemedContext().setTheme(R.style.MyTheme_AppBarOverlay_2);
Second:
AppBarLayout mAppBar = (AppBarLayout) findViewById(R.id.appbar); mAppBar.getContext().setTheme(R.style.MyTheme_AppBarOverlay_2);
Changing themes after inflation is not possible with Android views. You'll have to change each property the theme defines individually. You may work around this by using Compose TopAppBar, since Compose widgets react to theme changes.
I'm using a theme that will not show the ActionBar by default:
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat">
<item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
<item name="android:textColorPrimary">#FFFFFF</item>
</style>
However, I'm replacing it with Toolbar in xml:
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
... >
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/toolbar_VenueDetail"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:background="#color/MainColor" />
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="300dp"
android:background="#color/MainColor"
android:elevation="#dimen/default_elevation"
android:orientation="vertical">
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
in OnCreate:
Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar_VenueDetail);
setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
The expected result is a flat Toolbar and a shadow below the LinearLayout, which is exactly what preview in Android Studio shows me:
However in real life, the Toolbar has also taken effect:
I want to just put the shadow below another View and keep my Toolbar flat, how to achieve this? Is this even possible?
Do not set the toolbar as a support actionbar. You can still set navigation button, title and inflate menu on the toolbar but the elevation shouldn't be applied unless you set it explicitly in code or in the activity layout.
Having said that, make sure that the removing the elevation is not against the principles of material design.
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