I want to include a drop down menu to android action bar like in the Google Maps app. I don not want to include any third party libraries such as actionbarsherlock since I believe we can do this using android SDK.
You can use a toolbar from the AppCompat library to act as your actionbar and then add a spinner within the toolbar because toolbar acts like a regular layout where you can add views within it.
here is a sample:
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:minHeight="#dimen/triple_height_toolbar"
app:theme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar"
app:popupTheme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light" >
<Spinner
android:id="#+id/planets_spinner"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>
And finding the spinner within the toolbar is calling the findViewById within the toolbar.
toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.tool_bar);
Spinnertitle = (Spinner)toolbar.findViewById(R.id.toolbar_title);
Link Here is how to add a toolbar in your application
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I am writing an AccessibilityService, which opens a fullscreen view via the WindowManager on a certain event. I am currently designing the view to be opened. I'd like to add a navigation bar at the top of this view, as it is automatically added by Android Studio when you create an empty activity, for example. This navigation bar should not contain any buttons or the like. However, it should have exactly the same size as it is given to a default activity by Android or Android Studio. Below is the result I would like to have. I don't know with which xml element I can add this bar/navigation bar.
Just add this code to your activity :
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/my_toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
style="#style/HeaderBar"
app:theme="#style/ActionBarThemeOverlay"
app:popupTheme="#style/ActionBarPopupThemeOverlay"
android:elevation="4dp"
>
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="DataCollector"
android:id="#+id/toolbar_title" />
</toolbar>
And then in your activity in onCreate() method add this :
private Toolbar mTopToolbar;
mTopToolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.my_toolbar);
setSupportActionBar(mTopToolbar);
I am using right to left support for my app. I have a custom arrow set to toolbar as the navigation icon. When I switch to arabic language, everything aligns to right including the toolbar custom navigation arrow. But the problem is the custom navigation icon is not flipping, that is it should be pointing to the right instead of left(default). This works fine with the default indicator if I dont specify any navigation icon. Have anyone encountered this?
Any solution?
Here is my code for the toolbar
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#android:color/white"
app:contentInsetLeft="0dp"
app:contentInsetStart="0dp"
app:contentInsetStartWithNavigation="0dp"
app:elevation="0dp"
app:navigationIcon="#drawable/ic_back"
app:popupTheme="#style/AppTheme.PopupOverlay"
app:logo="#drawable/ic_logo"
android:gravity="center_vertical|start"
>
in Activity
Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.tb_venue_filter);
setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
If you are on android API 21+, you can just flip your icon by adding android:autoMirrored="true" to your vector icon or layer-list XML icon, this will alleviate the hasle of adding it to every toolbar manually, but if you want to support 21- versions you will have to go with the accepted answer.
This is a feature of the Drawable, not so much the Toolbar.
Try with:
toolbar.getNavigationIcon().setAutoMirrored(true);
I would like to have two search views inside a toolbar in one of my activities: the first for looking up the place of interest and the second for filtering by location.
The searchViews would be on top of each other always expanded. The top one would say "Search" as the hint. The bottom one would say "Nearby" as the hint. To the left would be the home button.
I have come up with two ways that could potentially work but I have encountered problems in both and I don't know how to resolve them.
First Solution (Current)
Here I have a linear layout and inside is a android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar, a view, and followed by a second Toolbar.
This is essentially what I want it to look like but the problem is that changing the hint text in onCreateOptionsMenu changes BOTH hints. I would like the top to say "Search" and the bottom to say "Nearby". It seems that because there are two toolbars, onCreateOptionsMenu affects both of them.
Code:
<LinearLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:id="#+id/search_container"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/search_toolbar"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:theme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.ActionBar">
</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>
<View
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="1dp"
android:layout_marginLeft="72dp"
android:background="#90909090"/>
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/search_toolbar2"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
app:contentInsetStart="56dp"
android:theme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.ActionBar">
</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>
<include
layout="#layout/toolbar_action_bar_shadow"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="10dp"/>
</LinearLayout>`
onCreate:
Toolbar toolbar2 = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.search_toolbar2);
setSupportActionBar(toolbar2);
Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.search_toolbar);
setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(false);
getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);
OnCreateOptionsMenu:
SearchView searchViewTop = (SearchView) MenuItemCompat.getActionView(menu.findItem(R.id
.search_top));
SearchManager searchManager1 = (SearchManager) getActivity().getSystemService(Context
.SEARCH_SERVICE);
searchViewTop.setSearchableInfo(searchManager1.getSearchableInfo(getActivity()
.getComponentName()));
searchViewTop.setIconified(false);
searchViewTop.onActionViewExpanded();
searchViewTop.setQueryHint("Nearby");
Second Solution (Old)
The second method involves putting a searchView instead of a second toolbar in the xml file. Although the second searchview isn't inside the toolbar, it can be made to look like it is. The problem I encountered with this is that the searchView not inside the toolbar looks different from the searchView inside the toolbar and how I would like it. When not inside the toolbar, the hint text is aligned further to the right and not directly underneath the top hint text. Any new text entered inside the searchview would be aligned correctly however. I tried customizing the style of the searchview to align it properly but was unable to find a correct method.
I was wondering if there is a way to correct either of my methods to make it work or if there is a new way to setup these two searchViews. Thanks.
I realized that when you call setSupportActionBar() for more than one toolbar, changes in onCreateOptionsMenu affect all the toolbars added. To solve this problem, I just called setSupportActionBar only on my top toolbar. For the bottom toolbar, I called in onCreate
toolbar2.inflateMenu(R.menu.search2);
SearchView searchViewBottom = (SearchView)findViewById(R.id.search_bottom);
searchViewBottom.onActionViewExpanded();
Then handle all actions inside with setOnMenuItemClickListener.
Hi, i´m making an app and i want to add an activity just like the image above, and i´m having difficulties extendin the action bar, i´ve seen this on google design guidelines, how do i implement this on android lollipop(my min sdk is 21 i´m not interested in backwards compatibility)
thanks in advance.
It can be done by using Collapsing Toolbars which is provided in the android design support library and here is an example for knowing for using that library.
If you don't want a CollapsingToolbar , you can use a simple Toolbar using a custom minHeight.
Inside the Toolbar you can put your views, for example TextView or TextInputLayout.
Finally use a FloatingActionButton. It is important to set the attributes
app:layout_anchorand app:layout_anchorGravity
<android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout>
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/toolbar_main"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="256dp"
android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:theme="#style/ToolbarMainTheme" >
<android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout>
<TextView>
</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>
<!-- your scrollable view here -->
<android.support.design.widget.FloatingActionButton
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:id="#+id/fab"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
app:borderWidth="0dp"
app:elevation="4dp"
app:pressedTranslationZ="6dp"
android:layout_marginRight="#dimen/fab_margin_card"
android:src="#drawable/ic_youricon"
app:layout_anchor="#id/toolbar_main"
app:layout_anchorGravity="bottom|right|end" />
</android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout>
You just need to add an EditText and several TextViews (or wrap the EditText in a TextInputLayout) into the Toolbar in your layout xml.
https://gist.github.com/chris95x8/53214de145571d410e13
I'm using the AppCompat toolbar, and for the most part its great. However, dealing with the title has been a nightmare. It's set to the app name by default, and I cannot find a way to hide it.
I was trying to hide it so that I can add my own textview so that I could properly align the title text to the top currently its left-aligned but vertically centered. I could not figure out how to position it where it would be normally if I didn't make my toolbar height longer than usual.
How have you guys been managing the toolbar? How can I align the title text to be at the top position where the title's normally are?
Edit: I've added a screenshot of what it looks like. I'm trying to keep my project private for now so I erased any identifying elements. But notice that the D (which is the title) is not aligned to the top.
If you have set your toolbar as action bar setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
then you can sipmly disable the title by using
getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);
and add a textview as your Title in your toolbar layout as toolbar is also a view. See following
<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"
android:theme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark"
app:theme="#style/ToolbarCustomIconColor" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textview_title"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
android:gravity="center"
android:text="#string/app_name"
android:textColor="#android:color/white" />
</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>
</LinearLayout>
This way you can arrange your title anywhere and customize accordingly.
You are using ToolBar from support v7 AppCompat
after that set that toolbar as action bar and then set action bar title for simple title or you want to set your custom layout inside toolbar then same as we are doing in action bar hence.. now your toolbar work as a actionbar..
See below example from ActionBarActivity..
mToolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
setSupportActionBar(mToolbar);
getSupportActionBar().setTitle("Your Title");
Now if you do anything with action bar related methods it is ultimately affected in ToolBar.
to change Toolbar title try this
Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
getSupportActionBar().setTitle("Text");
for custom layout for Toolbar try this
getSupportActionBar().setDisplayOptions(ActionBar.DISPLAY_SHOW_CUSTOM);
getSupportActionBar().setCustomView(R.layout.actionbar); //replace with your custom toolbar title