In Google's Material Design document, it shows a full-screen dialog with a header that contains a X close button and a SAVE button. Is there a support library way of getting this dialog treatment easily?
Material Design Components Dialogs
Use a support toolbar (android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar). Put it at the top of your layout.
It looks like an actionbar but you can just give the views inside it onClick handlers to handle save and close.
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Im making an app for android, without actionbar.
What is best practice for showing titles without actionbar?
The best practice is basically never using an action bar. This gives you a complete device screen to play with.
You can use images or different text styles for showing the title. You can also use interesting icons.
To remove action bar -
Go to res > values > styles.xml
Here is an illustration of styles file -
You can use the Toolbar (it's like the action bar, but more flexible). For example, action bar needs to be on top of the screen, but toolbar can have place anywhere in the layout.
You title can be shown as text or a beautiful asset.
If, for some reason, you don't want to use the toolbar, you can think about something like having a scrollView with the title on top of it.
Use a regular LinearLayout with a TextView inside. Style according to your needs, and set the text in the xml, or programmaticaly using TextView's setText() method.
Even set gravity of title text we must use
getSupportActionBar().setCustomView(R.layout.actionbar);
So why should I use actionbar instead of custom header view?
You can search for android design guideline from Google.
In this guidelines you can read that :
Using the app bar makes your app consistent with other Android apps, allowing users to quickly understand how to operate your app and have a great experience.
This means that using action bar, you will use the back buttons or the drawer for instance, the same way as the other app.
I am working on an Android application where I have to design a menu which will populate from the action bar, like this:
I have tried my best but was not able to produce it using the Android controls.
The solutions I have tried are:
With Actionbar, add a menu item with a group with selectable="all", that produces the layout I need but when I click a checkbox for selecting it, the whole menu hides and selection is not done, moreover the menu icon in actionbar does not have the bottom right white arrow.
Tried creating a custom ActionProvider and added the menu items using class's OnPrepareSubMenu method but had the same issue.
I just need a push in the right direction and I can do the rest, suggestions are more than welcome.
Thank you :)
Use popupWindow.
In that you can make any custom layout and set it as content of your popupwindow and also you can specify an ANCHOR in your case it would be
R.id.your_menu_item
set a listener and listen the changes.
i'm building an app and i really want to align buttons to the left using ABS (action bar sherlock) 4.0
I really like the dropbox interface as shown under this:
So, my question is: How can i align the buttons to the left and how can i jump between views in ViewFlow using buttons?
I've seen that people can add tabs to their ABS, but not with the title like the Dropbox interface.
Thanks.
Also if u need my sourcecode i will add it later if needed.
Regards
Stian Instebø
setCustomView() is the magic method you might be looking for.
To achieve the same layout shown in the Dropbox app, you would first call setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(false) on your ActionBar.
Next, you could define the layout for the buttons somewhere in XML. Once this is done, calling setCustomView(R.layout.my_actionbar_nav) will do the trick. (It will now be positioned on the left-hand side of the ActionBar).
It'll be your responsibility to wire up the appropriate onClick listeners for your layout's inner button Views, but it's not a bad price to pay for setting up custom navigation.
I recently thought of adding a custom title bar to my app (with "find me" and home button and such) and then I thought what is the reason of using a custom title bar at top instead of just a normal layout and using it as an include tag at the top of my XML's
What are the pros and cons of each? Is there realy a difference?
EDIT: one difference ive found so far is that the custom title bar has a shadows automaticly
For having back and home button titlebar, you should define normal layout for the same. Because it is easy to implement as compared to customized the native title bar. And we can create normal layout as we wants with any color/height/width/image backround/etc.
I suggest you to go with defining normal layout for the title bar instead of customizing the native title bar.
You can extend LinearLayout to create a new layout with your title bar. The advantage is you can then customise the title bar for different activities that use it. Some may not want to display the find button for instance.
If you use include in XML you don't have the same flexibility.
I would create a custom layout with the title bar.