Hello everyone I'm try to make custom action bar. My codes below. Everything is good at the right side of Action Bar but at the left side custom action bar does not match. How can I solve this problem.
Thanks in helpings.
EDIT 1 :
My main activity xml, it has not got anything interest with action bar but I could not figure out where the problem is
activity_main.xml
<RelativeLayout 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:paddingLeft="#dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingRight="#dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingTop="#dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
android:paddingBottom="#dimen/activity_vertical_margin" tools:context=".MainActivity"
android:id="#+id/hh">
</RelativeLayout>
Here is my custom action bar xml file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<Button
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="New Button"
android:id="#+id/button"
android:background="#ffff2301" />
</RelativeLayout>
My Java Code;
public class MainActivity extends ActionBarActivity {
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
getSupportActionBar().setCustomView(R.layout.action_bar);
getSupportActionBar().setDisplayOptions(ActionBar.DISPLAY_SHOW_CUSTOM);
}
}
You are using setCustomView() on the default toolbar provided by the theme. Custom views are meant to be loaded in the toolbar space that is not occupied by other views (logo, title, overflow menu..).
So your custom layout becomes part of the toolbar, and does not replace it. So either:
You want things to be this way. In this case your issue is just background color. I don't know how you set the custom view to be yellow, but try adding android:background="#color/transparent" to the RelativeLayout and switch the whole toolbar color to yellow instead. The room in the left will be eventually loaded with navigation icons, so you want it to be there.
You want to (I'd suggest to) use the Toolbar API which makes it easier to add custom views. This is done this way:
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
<include layout="#layout/custom_toolbar"/>
<RelativeLayout android:id="#+id/main_content"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
</RelativeLayout>
</LinearLayout>
And then, in custom_toolbar.xml,
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
xmlns:abc="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:id="#+id/toolbar"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:layout_width="match_parent">
<!-- you can add any custom view here -->
<Button
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="New Button"
android:id="#+id/button"
android:background="#ffff2301" />
</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>
In your onCreate() you now have to call:
public class MainActivity extends ActionBarActivity {
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
Toolbar tb = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
setSupportActionBar(tb);
}
}
Related
I am working on Android project and I've created a new Settings Activity from Android. When I created the activity, and tried running, it the Settings Activity that Android Studio created, didn't include an action bar for some reason. I googled around and found that it seems to be a common thing and add the action bar manually, so I've done the following:
private void setupActionBar()
{
getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.toolbar, (ViewGroup)findViewById(android.R.id.content));
Toolbar toolbar = findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
ActionBar actionBar = getSupportActionBar();
if (actionBar != null)
{
// Show the Up button in the action bar.
actionBar.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
}
}
I found that the first preference header is hidden under the action bar, again Googled around, found you need to add padding to the list view which I did using the following in the onCreate()
getListView().setPadding(0, 180, 0, 0);
Doing the above seems a little odd, and it only works on the initial settings activity screen with the list of preference headers. Once you click on the preference headers to view the settings, the first setting is hidden under the action bar as shown in the screenshot below:
I think I figured it out.
I created a toolbar XML as below
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:local="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:id="#+id/settings_toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
android:popupTheme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light" />
Then in the SettingsActivity in the setupActionBar method as below:
private void setupActionBar()
{
ViewGroup rootView = (ViewGroup)findViewById(R.id.action_bar_root);
View view = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.settings_toolbar, rootView, false);
rootView.addView(view, 0);
Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar)findViewById(R.id.settings_toolbar);
setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
ActionBar actionBar = getSupportActionBar();
if (actionBar != null) {
// Show the Up button in the action bar.
actionBar.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
}
}
I suggest to remove your Action Bar and make a custom toolbar which will be described by other layout file and will contain a widget that cancels your current activity.
For example:
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/relLayout1">
<include layout="#layout/snippet_comments_toolbar"/>
</RelativeLayout>
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:id="#+id/relLayout2"
android:layout_below="#+id/relLayout1"
android:layout_marginBottom="60dp">
<ListView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:id="#+id/listView"></ListView>
</RelativeLayout>
and then snippet_comments_toolbar which is that toolbar I am talking about:
<merge xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
>
<android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="50dp"
android:background="#drawable/white_grey_border_bottom"
>
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/profileToolBar">
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<ImageView
android:layout_width="30dp"
android:layout_height="30dp"
android:layout_marginEnd="20dp"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:id="#+id/backArrow"
android:src="#drawable/ic_backarrow"/>
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Comments"
android:layout_toRightOf="#+id/backArrow"
android:layout_marginRight="15dp"
android:textSize="20sp"
android:textColor="#color/black"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:id="#+id/tvNext"
/>
</RelativeLayout>
</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>
</android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>
</merge>
I've created code so that Fragment is added dynamically when I tap on a menu button. However I get the error:
No view found for id 0x7f0d009a (tech.glasgowneuro.attysecg:id/fragment_container2) for fragment XYPlotFragment{a75aa2e #0 id=0x7f0d009a}
I've been through all the other posts here and the std answer is that the Frame layout needs to be child of the main layout. I think I've done that right. Still no id is found.
activity_plot_window.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/mainlayout"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
<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/my_toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
android:elevation="4dp"
android:theme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.ActionBar"
app:popupTheme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light" />
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical">
<tech.glasgowneuro.attysecg.InfoView
android:id="#+id/infoview"
title="Plot Window"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_marginBottom="10dp"
android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
android:layout_marginRight="10dp"
android:layout_marginTop="10dp" />
<tech.glasgowneuro.attysecg.RealtimePlotView
android:id="#+id/realtimeplotview"
title="Plot Window"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_marginBottom="10dp"
android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
android:layout_marginRight="10dp"
android:layout_marginTop="10dp" />
</RelativeLayout>
<FrameLayout
android:id="#+id/fragment_container2"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" />
</LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout><!-- </LinearLayout> -->
main JAVA code of the Activity:
public class AttysECG extends AppCompatActivity {
...
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
....
setContentView(R.layout.activity_plot_window);
Toolbar myToolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.my_toolbar);
setSupportActionBar(myToolbar);
....
}
...
case R.id.showplot:
// Create a new Fragment to be placed in the activity layout
XYPlotFragment plotFragment = new XYPlotFragment();
// Add the fragment to the 'fragment_container' FrameLayout
getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction()
.add(R.id.fragment_container2, plotFragment).commit();
The question is why do I get this exception? If I do a findViewById(fragment_container2) then the result is null.
How can I get a valid id for the fragment_container2?
At this point the view is certainly inflated because I trigger this crash long after the app has been started.
I've figured it out. Android studio created two "activity_plot_window.xml" files. One has the suffix _v21 so that there are two versions for the older APIs and the newer ones. It's explained here:
https://developer.android.com/training/material/compatibility.html
I've added the Framelayout to the _v21 file and now it works. See the screenshot. It's very easy to oversee when not expanded (just a grey (2)).
You need to find it through FragmentManager:
getSupportFragmentManager().findFragmentById(R.id.fragment_container2);
I have a RecyclerView that contains CardViews.
I would like to add a Toolbar to each of those CardViews that would look and behave like the main Toolbar:
[Icon] [Title] .......... [Button] [Button] [Menu]
I've seen from here (http://blog.grafixartist.com/create-a-card-toolbar/) that it is possible to set an actual android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar object inside a CardView. But it relies on setSupportActionBar(...) to inflate the menu and respond to actions.
Do you think it's possible to reproduce that behaviour in each of my CardViews?
You don't need setSupportActionBar for your cardviews with toolbars until you would need to set some ActionBar specific actions up/back navigation actions.
Take a look at this fine example (link to whole page below):
Thanks Gabriele for all the help. Here is working code:
Activity :
public class MainActivity extends ActionBarActivity {
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_mai);
Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.card_toolbar);
toolbar.setTitle("Card Toolbar");
if (toolbar != null) {
// inflate your menu
toolbar.inflateMenu(R.menu.main);
toolbar.setOnMenuItemClickListener(new Toolbar.OnMenuItemClickListener() {
#Override
public boolean onMenuItemClick(MenuItem menuItem) {
return true;
}
});
}
Toolbar maintoolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar_main);
if (toolbar != null) {
// inflate your menu
maintoolbar.inflateMenu(R.menu.main);
maintoolbar.setOnMenuItemClickListener(new Toolbar.OnMenuItemClickListener() {
#Override
public boolean onMenuItemClick(MenuItem menuItem) {
return true;
}
});
}
}
}
Layout XML File:
<RelativeLayout 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.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/toolbar_main"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="#dimen/action_bar_size_x2"
android:background="#android:color/holo_orange_dark"
android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize" />
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_below="#+id/toolbar_main"
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" >
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/card_toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="#dimen/action_bar_size"
android:background="#android:color/white" />
<View
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="1dp"
android:background="#android:color/darker_gray" />
<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>
</RelativeLayout>
Make sure your activity theme is extending Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar.
Here is what it will look like:
Few things to note:
If you are using card elevation then you need to altar the margin top so that your card aligns with the main toolbar
I am still seeing 1-2 pixel margin between bottom of main toolbar and card toolbar. Not sure about what to do in this case. For now, i
am aligning it manually.
From: How to create a card toolbar using appcompat v7
Notice that author of this post hadn't used it at all, so I'm pretty sure you would also don't need that for implementation your idea
Hope it help
Sure. setSupportActionBar is used to set target for setTitle, menu inflation and up/back action. You can use Toolbar anywhere you want without using setSupportActionBar. It will behave like a ViewGroup.
Previous answers are correct but I would like to mention they there are times where the menu items become duplicate. In order to get around this, you need to clear the toolbar's menu for each CardView by invoking toolBar.getMenu().clear();
I've searched for this question but haven't found a useful answer yet.
I am trying to create a Toolbar with some kind of edittext inside of it.
It should look like this:
How should my XML file look like? Currently it looks like this:
<LinearLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/activity_main_toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
android:elevation="8dp"
app:theme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar"
>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<EditText
android:id="#+id/activity_main_title"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:hint="#string/title"
android:layout_marginLeft="16dp"
android:layout_marginRight="16dp"
android:layout_marginEnd="16dp"
android:layout_marginStart="16dp"
android:layout_marginTop="16dp"
android:textSize="22sp"/>
</LinearLayout>
</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>
</LinearLayout>
The activity looks like this:
private Toolbar toolbar;
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.acitivty_main);
toolbar = (Toolbar)findViewbyid(R.id.activity_main_toolbar);
setSupportActionbar(toolbar);
}
But the result is some Edittext which is right in the center of the Toolbar, letting no space for the toolbar title (please ignore the "save" menu button)
Now my question is,
How do I correctly add one or more views to the toolbar below the main actionbar height?
Could you recommend me some example or tutorial page?
What kind of EditText is used in the shown image with the floating hint?
Thanks in advance
Well first I think it easy to answer the second and third question first, you can find that information in the "Android Developer Blog" in "Android Design Support Library". Here the link:
http://android-developers.blogspot.co.uk/2015_05_01_archive.html
Just scroll down till you find the section called "Floating labels for editing text" and sorted.
Now for the first question, what I did was I made a "Toolbar" layout (won't be able to elaborate too much here as I'm busy at the moment) and then added it to the layout. The code is below:
Toolbar Layout:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- NOTE: Use To Maintain Structure Of Actionbar -->
<Toolbar
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:background="#009688"
android:id="#+id/toolBar"
android:elevation="2dp">
<!-- NOTE: Required For Top Section Structure -->
<LinearLayout
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
<EditText
android:background="#android:color/transparent"
android:hint="#string/note_title"
android:textColorHint="#FFFFFF"
android:id="#+id/actionTitle"
android:paddingRight="16dp"
style="#style/ActionText"/>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textDate"
style="#style/ActionDate"/>
</LinearLayout>
</Toolbar>
Adding it to the Layout File
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- NOTE: Layout For Edit Note Activity -->
<RelativeLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:fitsSystemWindows="true">
<!-- NOTE: Assigned Custom Toolbar -->
<include
android:id="#+id/toolBar"
layout="#layout/tool"/>
</RelativeLayout>
And that should sort you out (You can then mess about with the actionbar properties to clean it up aka: getActionBar().setElevation(0); and
getActionBar().setTitle("");
Okay, I've been going through several StackOverflow posts now, but I'm still confused as to where this xml for my Toolbar goes.
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id=”#+id/my_awesome_toolbar”
android:layout_height=”wrap_content”
android:layout_width=”match_parent”
android:background=”#styles/colorPrimary” />
Does it go in my /layout/activity_main.xml?
Toolbar is a generalization of Action bars for use within app layouts, now to answer your question there are two practices:
Bad practice:
Bad practice is to define the Toolbar in every layouts.
Standard practice:
Standard practice is to define a layout and reference it in a base activity. You just need to include this Toolbar layout in whichever layout you want (by using <include>) and extend the defined base activity in whichever activity.
This standard practice will help you keeping a single code base for Toolbar and save your time from defining Toolbar every time.
Example: Google I/O 2014 android app
toolbar_actionbar_with_headerbar.xml
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:iosched="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
style="#style/HeaderBar"
iosched:theme="#style/ActionBarThemeOverlay"
iosched:popupTheme="#style/ActionBarPopupThemeOverlay"
android:id="#+id/toolbar_actionbar"
iosched:titleTextAppearance="#style/ActionBar.TitleText"
iosched:contentInsetStart="?actionBarInsetStart"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?actionBarSize" />
This toolbar layout is referenced in settings activity as given below:
activity_settings.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"
tools:context=".ui.SettingsActivity">
<include layout="#layout/toolbar_actionbar_with_headerbar" />
<FrameLayout
android:id="#+id/container"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="1" />
</LinearLayout>
As for me, I usually make a ToolbarActivity. Next, if you want your activity to have a toolbar, you just need to YourActivity extends ToolbarActivity.
public class ToolbarActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
#Override
public void setContentView(int layoutResID) {
super.setContentView(R.layout.activity_toolbar);
Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
LayoutInflater inflater = LayoutInflater.from(this);
View contentView = inflater.inflate(layoutResID, null);
LinearLayout layout = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.layout);
layout.addView(contentView, new ViewGroup.LayoutParams(ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT));
}
}
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:id="#+id/layout"
tools:context=".ToolbarActivity" >
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:theme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
android:id="#+id/toolbar" />
</LinearLayout>