I'm struggling to make toolbar shadow appear on Android 28+. I tried multiple solutions suggested, but none worked. Following styles work well for all devices below 28:
toolbar.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/toolbar"
style="#style/Widget.App.Toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
/>
styles.xml
<style name="Widget.App.Toolbar.V1" parent="Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar">
<item name="android:layout_height">?attr/actionBarSize</item>
<item name="android:layout_width">match_parent</item>
<item name="android:background">?attr/colorPrimary</item>
<item name="popupTheme">#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light</item>
<item name="android:theme">#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar</item>
</style>
styles.xml (v21)
<style name="Widget.App.Toolbar" parent="Widget.App.Toolbar.V1">
<item name="android:elevation">4dp</item>
</style>
I also tried to set elevation programmatically, using ViewCompat.setElevation with no success.
Does anyone has an idea how to make it work?
UPD:
I know you can create custom shadow drawable, but I would like to avoid this solution if possible. Just can't understand why such basic functionality requires additional drawable and views in layout. Also, I wonder why it works on previous Android versions. Didn't found any proofs that this behavior has changed.
I ended up setting my own drop shadow for the toolbar, thought it might helpful for anyone looking for it:
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="top"
android:orientation="vertical">
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar android:id="#+id/toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#color/color_alizarin"
android:titleTextAppearance="#color/White"
app:theme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar"/>
<FrameLayout android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<!-- **** Place Your Content Here **** -->
<View android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="5dp"
android:background="#drawable/toolbar_dropshadow"/>
</FrameLayout>
</LinearLayout>
#drawable/toolbar_dropshadow:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:shape="rectangle">
<gradient android:startColor="#android:color/transparent"
android:endColor="#88333333"
android:angle="90"/>
</shape>
#color/color_alizarin
<color name="color_alizarin">#e74c3c</color>
I don't know why it doesn't work for many of the people, adding:
android:elevation="5dp"
Directly to the toolbar works fine for me.
In my v27\style.xml I have the following code to set a white navbar:
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/colorPrimary</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
<item name="colorAccent">#color/colorAccent</item>
<item name="android:navigationBarColor">#android:color/white</item>
<item name="android:windowLightNavigationBar">true</item>
</style>
It works, but the white navbar "joins" with the white background. I would to add an horizontal line on the navbar, in each activity. How can I do?
This is what I would (from Youtube), I highlighted it with red rectangle:
I think for cases like these you may need to have a custom toolbar layout so that you can optimise the layout whichever way you like.
Something like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<androidx.appcompat.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:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
app:popupTheme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light"
app:theme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar">
<LinearLayout
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/tvToolBarTitle"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:textSize="18sp"
android:text="Toobar"
android:fontFamily="#font/filson_pro_book"
android:textColor="#color/white"
android:visibility="visible"/>
<FrameLayout
android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
android:background="#color/white"
android:layout_width="100dp"
android:layout_height="1dp"/>
</LinearLayout>
You would probably want to add an horizontal line each time you open the nav drawer:
<View
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="1dp"
android:background="#FF0000FF"
android:layout_gravity = "bottom/>
If you want the line to be on half of the screen (only on the nav)- add it inside the nav.
If you want the line to be on the whole screen (as you marked in the picture)- add it after adding the nav.
Since API 27 there is an attribute in the style called navigationBarDividerColor that allows to do that. You can complement it with the navigationBarColor to make it look like the one in your screenshot.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">
...
<item name="android:navigationBarColor">#android:color/white</item>
<item name="android:navigationBarDividerColor">#DBDBDB</item>
</style>
</resources>
I am using support Toolbar from version suppport lib 25.0.1 and randomly it shows like this:
Now this is random and I dont know how to reproduce this. Some times it shows ok some times doesnt show correctly.
This is how I use the Toolbar in my fragment:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/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="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:theme="#style/Theme.App.Toolbar"
android:elevation="#dimen/toolbar_elevation"
app:layout_scrollFlags="scroll|enterAlways|snap"
app:popupTheme="#style/Theme.App.Toolbar.Popup"/>
<style name="Theme.App.Toolbar">
<item name="android:textColorPrimary">#color/white</item>
<item name="actionMenuTextColor">#color/white</item>
<item name="android:textColorSecondary">#color/white</item>
<item name="android:textColorHint">#color/white</item>
</style>
Fragment:
toolbar.setTitle("Story title");
appCompatActivity().setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
As it can be seen from the screeenshot somehow the toolbar tries to put the subtitle but I dont have one.
Is this happening to other people, is this a known bug for this problem, any solution for this.
Try to use it like:
<?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"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:id="#+id/tb_toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#color/colorPrimary"
android:theme="#style/Theme.MyTheme"
tools:ignore="NewApi">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/tv_title_toolbar"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:textColor="#android:color/white"
android:textSize="18sp"
/>
</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>
Here you can set title gravity to left.
Then access it in the code like this way:
toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.tb_toolbar);
tvToolbarTitle = (TextView) toolbar.findViewById(R.id.tv_title_toolbar);
tvToolbarTitle.setText(title);
The only solution for me until now is to use support library version 25.0.0
Other solutions or updates are welcomed
I'm new to android development and I'm working on an app with ActionBar and Tabs. Recently I switched to the new support library Toolbar but the title of the toolbar (ActionBar) isn't vertically centred, while the action buttons are correctly placed.
Title image
The same problem occurs with the first MenuItem in the bar (it's moved up a little bit). Menu image
My activity extends the AppCompatActivty and the layout looks like this:
<?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:orientation="vertical"
tools:context=".MainActivity">
<android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/action_bar_toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
app:theme="#style/ActionBarTheme"/>
<android.support.design.widget.TabLayout
android:id="#+id/tabs"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#color/colorPrimary"
app:tabGravity="fill"
app:tabMaxWidth="0dp"
app:tabMode="fixed"/>
<com.myApp.app.views.widgets.ViewPager
android:id="#+id/fragmentPager"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#android:color/white"/>
</android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>
</android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout>
and the style:
<style name="ActionBarTheme" parent="Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar">
<item name="android:textColorPrimary">#color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
<item name="colorControlNormal">#color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
<item name="android:background">#color/colorPrimary</item>
</style>
Could someone help me fix this issue? I've searched for a solution but found nothing.
P.S. They were correctly placed as I was using the default action bar
You should use android:theme rather than app:theme here:
android:theme="#style/ActionBarTheme"
Your style should derive from the action bar overlay:
<style name="ActionBarTheme" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar">
...
</style>
Consider just using the ActionBar theme directly to start to isolate the 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