How does Twitter app make both title and icon clickable in ActionBar? - android

I've been wondering about this question quite long time. How do they do that? Is the title just disabled and the HomeAsUp button is custom and contains the logo, arrow and text?
Do you know any other ways how to accomplish this?

You can achieve this by making a single image that contain both
- arrow.
- text.
- icon.
And the work on this single image action

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What would be a good way to show activity title without actionbar?

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.

How to change the title text position on the toolbar?

I recently got into android development. I just started on my first app and was wondering how to move the app title right next to the drawer icon instead of it being in the middle like this.Example
Is there anyway to do this at all? Thanks.
Normally,the app title is right next to the drawer icon. I think your layout file may have a problem, can you show you layout code?

How to change the location and size of Action Buttons?

I have a problem with the design of my ActionBar.
The problem is that I want to create an Action Button on my Action Bar that is a text only button an then I want move it around with margins and make the text bigger then the default (Not programmatically).
I tried to achive this using a style but it did not work and the size and the location of the botton stayed as the defalut. How can I achive this kind of result?

UI screen design

I am working on an Android application and have to code up the following design for one of the screens:
(Ignore the yellow stuff, I have just masked the Logo and the App-specific information for now)
My question is: How do I design this particular type of screen? The top pane is akin to an ActionBar in Android. However, when any button on the top pane is hit, this custom "popup" having a rectangular form with a small arrow on top pointing towards the button is display and does not interrupt the current/main activity.
I have looked around, but still dont understand how to accomplish this.
Any thoughts? Thanks!
You can use the native Action Bar along with the icons.
The only problem is if you want to show them all at once.
Some icons may be hidden depending on the size of the phone.
As for the custom pop-up, the toast feature is available to do that.
It is quite easy to adjust the position of toasts and customise toasts :
Customisation of toasts: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/notifiers/toasts.html#CustomToastView
Changing postion of toasts: How to change position of Toast in Android?

Android: highlighted navigation buttons at the bottom of the screens, Split Actionbar?

Many apps (Instagram for example) have these navigation buttons at the bottom of the screens for switching activities. A button is highlighted AFTER clicking and stays highlighted during the activity until the user switches to other activities.
I'm trying to implement these buttons in my app. Are these buttons part of the split action bar, or tabs placed at the bottom, or just regular image buttons in a group (like push-buttons/radio-buttons)? I tried using split action bar. It works well, however, I cannot figure out how to highlight or change the background of the button which was clicked. I searched but couldn't find a solution. There are postings about changing the background color of the action bar item using custom selector, but it only applies to the time the button is pressed. Since so many apps these days have these buttons, I believe there are must be solutions that I'm not aware. Please help! Thanks.
try to use the tabwidget for highlighting the tab(or)button for switching in bottom

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