I have a custom ActionBar layout which I want to use in almost all of my Activities.
The problem is the text doesn't appear.
This is how I use it in an Activity
android.support.v7.app.ActionBar actionBar = getSupportActionBar();
actionBar.setDisplayShowCustomEnabled(true);
//getSupportActionBar().setDisplayOptions(android.support.v7.app.ActionBar.DISPLAY_SHOW_CUSTOM);
actionBar.setCustomView(R.layout.actionbar_theme);
actionBar.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
actionBar.setTitle("Signup");
But the title "Signup" doesn't appear on the ActionBar..
The theme of the ActionBar
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/actionbar_theme_title"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:textColor="#color/white" />
</RelativeLayout>
Does this mean that I can't just do setTitle("asdf")?
As of now you can use toolbar as ActionBar and that toolbar can have any custom layout you wish. Here is the reference link.
Declare this in activity xml
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id=”#+id/my_awesome_toolbar”
android:layout_height=”wrap_content”
android:layout_width=”match_parent”
android:minHeight=”?attr/actionBarSize”
android:background=”?attr/colorPrimary” />
Then in java code use
Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.my_awesome_toolbar);
setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
styles.xml
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
<!-- Customize your theme here. -->
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/colorPrimary</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
<item name="colorAccent">#color/colorAccent</item>
</style>
for this to work perfectly your Activity should extends AppCompatActivit
This is not how it works. If you set a custom layout to your action bar, you need to change the textview of it like if it was a normal view.
If you are using this layout several time, keep a reference of your action bar or of the viewgroup.
ViewGroup actionBarLayout = (ViewGroup) getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.your layout containing your text view,null);
mActionBar.setCustomView(actionBarLayout);
(TextView)findViewById(R.id.actionbar_theme_title).setText(...)
I try to custom the ActionBar.
In the Fragment , I use the following code to set ActionBar.
ActionBar actionBar = getActivity().getActionBar();
actionBar.setDisplayShowCustomEnabled(true);
actionBar.setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);
actionBar.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(false);
actionBar.setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(false);
actionBar.setHomeButtonEnabled(false);
actionBar.setCustomView(R.layout.actionbar);
The actionbar.xml is like the following:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#drawable/bar_background" >
<ImageView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:layout_marginLeft="30dp"
android:layout_marginRight="30dp"
android:src="#drawable/bar_icon"/>
</RelativeLayout >
But it show like the following picture:
Why the menu button didn't change the Background? Did I missing something ?
CustomView is for putting your custom views (e.g. created classes) - Buttons, styled TextViews, other widgets etc. You are looking just for background, so you might use:
actionBar.setBackgroundDrawable(getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.bar_background));
or (better, prefered) style your ActionBar with styles:
<resources>
<style name="MyTheme" parent="#android:style/Theme.Holo.Light">
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/MyActionBarTheme</item>
</style>
<style name="MyActionBarTheme" parent="#android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar">
<item name="android:background">#drawable/bar_background</item>
</style>
</resources>
with new AppCompat you might use custom, easily colored Toolbar (doc here)
I am using a custom actionbar view, and as you can see in the screenshot below, there is a blank gray space in the actionbar. I want to remove it.
What have I done:
res/values-v11/styles.xml
<style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="#style/Theme.AppCompat.Light">
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/ActionBarStyle</item>
<item name="actionBarStyle">#style/ActionBarStyle</item>
</style>
res/values/my_custom_actionbar.xml
<resources xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<style name="ActionBarStyle" parent="#style/Widget.AppCompat.Light.ActionBar.Solid">
<item name="android:height">60dp</item>
</style>
</resources>
Manifest
<uses-sdk
android:minSdkVersion="10"
android:targetSdkVersion="19" />
<application
android:icon="#drawable/ic_launcher"
android:label="#string/AppName"
android:theme="#style/AppBaseTheme" >
<!-- activities... etc -->
</application>
MainActivity
public void onCreate(Bundle bundle) {
super.onCreate(bundle);
ActionBar actionbar = getSupportActionBar();
actionbar.setDefaultDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(false);
actionbar.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(false);
actionbar.setDisplayShowCustomEnabled(true);
actionbar.setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(false);
actionbar.setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);
actionbar.setDisplayUseLogoEnabled(false);
actionbar.setHomeButtonEnabled(false);
// Add the custom layout
View view = LayoutInflater.from(this).inflate(R.layout.actionbar, null, false);
actionbar.setCustomView(view);
}
I have found a recent post, that is pointing out that there is an issue with the latest release. I have also updated ADT and SDK to Android 5.
Android ActionBar's custom view not filling parent
I don't know what should I do.
Edit (partial solution):
Not working on Android <= API 10.
Android Lollipop, AppCompat ActionBar custom view doesn't take up whole screen width
What have I changed:
Use the latest sdk version:
<uses-sdk
android:minSdkVersion="10"
android:targetSdkVersion="21" />
Add a toolbarStyle:
<style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="#style/Theme.AppCompat.Light">
<item name="android:actionBarStyle">#style/ActionBarStyle</item>
<item name="actionBarStyle">#style/ActionBarStyle</item>
<item name="android:toolbarStyle">#style/ToolbarStyle</item>
<item name="toolbarStyle">#style/ToolbarStyle</item>
</style>
<style name="ToolbarStyle" parent="#style/Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar">
<item name="contentInsetStart">0dp</item>
<item name="android:contentInsetStart">0dp</item>
</style>
If you are adding the Toolbar via XML, you can simply add XML attributes to remove content insets.
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
xmlns:app="schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#color/primaryColor"
android:contentInsetLeft="0dp"
android:contentInsetStart="0dp"
app:contentInsetLeft="0dp"
app:contentInsetStart="0dp"
android:contentInsetRight="0dp"
android:contentInsetEnd="0dp"
app:contentInsetRight="0dp"
app:contentInsetEnd="0dp" />
try this:
ActionBar actionBar = getSupportActionBar();
actionBar.setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(false);
actionBar.setDisplayShowCustomEnabled(true);
actionBar.setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);
View customView = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.main_action_bar, null);
actionBar.setCustomView(customView);
Toolbar parent =(Toolbar) customView.getParent();
parent.setPadding(0,0,0,0);//for tab otherwise give space in tab
parent.setContentInsetsAbsolute(0,0);
The left inset is caused by Toolbar's contentInsetStart which by default is 16dp.
Change this to align to the keyline.
Update for support library v24.0.0:
To match the Material Design spec there's an additional attribute contentInsetStartWithNavigation which by default is 16dp. Change this if you also have a navigation icon.
It turned out that this is part of a new Material Design Specification introduced in version 24 of Design library.
https://material.google.com/patterns/navigation.html
However, it is possible to remove the extra space by adding the following property to Toolbar widget.
app:contentInsetStartWithNavigation="0dp"
Before :
After :
I found an other resolution (reference appcompat-v7 ) that change the toolbarStyle ,following code:
<item name="toolbarStyle">#style/Widget.Toolbar</item>
<style name="Widget.Toolbar" parent="#style/Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar">
<item name="contentInsetStart">0dp</item>
</style>
Just add app:contentInsetStart="0dp" to the XML attribute of the toolbar.
<android.support.v7.widget.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="wrap_content"
app:contentInsetLeft="0dp"
app:contentInsetStart="0dp"
android:paddingLeft="0dp">
This should be good enough.
Just Modify your styles.xml
<!-- ActionBar styles -->
<style name="MyActionBar" parent="Widget.AppCompat.ActionBar">
<item name="contentInsetStart">0dp</item>
<item name="contentInsetEnd">0dp</item>
</style>
Only add app:contentInsetStart="0dp" to the toolbar remove that left space.
So your Toolbar definition look like this
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
app:contentInsetStart="0dp"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
app:popupTheme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light"
app:theme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar">
and it look like this
Instead of adding a toolbar in the layout, you can set your custom view as shown below.
Toolbar parent = (Toolbar) customView.getParent();
parent.setContentInsetsAbsolute(0,0);
If you check the documentation of toolbar, by default it has style defined and there is an item contentInsetStart.
<item name="contentInsetStart">16dp</item>
If you want to override this padding then it can be done in two ways.
1.Override the style and add your own style with contentInsetStart and contentInsetEnd values
<style name="MyActionBar" parent="Widget.AppCompat.ActionBar">
<item name="contentInsetStart">0dp</item>
<item name="contentInsetEnd">0dp</item>
</style>
2.In XML you can directly define the contentInsetStart and contentInsetEnd values
<androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
app:contentInsetLeft="0dp"
app:contentInsetStart="0dp"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize">
<!--Add your views here-->
</androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar>
Using AppCompatAcitivty you can use just by
Toolbar mToolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
View logo = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.custom_toolbar, null);
mToolbar.addView(logo, new ViewGroup.LayoutParams(ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, ViewGroup.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT));
mToolbar.setContentInsetsAbsolute(0,0);
You need to add this line app2:contentInsetStart="0dp" in your toolbar
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app2="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:id="#+id/toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:background="#color/colorPrimary"
app2:contentInsetStart="0dp"/>
this work for me
toolbar.setPadding(0,0,0,0);
toolbar.setContentInsetsAbsolute(0,0);
Setting "contentInset..." attributes to 0 in the Toolbar didn't work for me. Nilesh Senta's solution to update the style worked!
styles.xml
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">
<!-- Customize your theme here. -->
<item name="colorPrimary">#color/colorPrimary</item>
<item name="colorPrimaryDark">#color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
<item name="colorAccent">#color/colorAccent</item>
<item name="actionBarStyle">#style/Actionbar</item>
<item name="android:titleTextStyle">#style/ActionbarTitle</item>
</style>
<style name="Actionbar" parent="Widget.AppCompat.ActionBar">
<item name="contentInsetStart">0dp</item>
<item name="contentInsetEnd">0dp</item>
</style>
java (onCreate)
ActionBar actionBar = getSupportActionBar();
actionBar.setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);
actionBar.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(false);
actionBar.setDisplayUseLogoEnabled(false);
actionBar.setDisplayShowCustomEnabled(true);
ActionBar.LayoutParams layoutParams = new ActionBar.LayoutParams(
ActionBar.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT,
ActionBar.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT
);
View view = LayoutInflater.from(this).inflate(R.layout.actionbar_main, null);
actionBar.setCustomView(view, layoutParams);
In xml add these two attribute for Toolbar tag:
app:contentInsetEnd="0dp"
app:contentInsetStart="0dp"
and inside code add these lines:
// remove extra padding of toolbar
toolbar.setContentInsetsAbsolute(0, 0);
toolbar.setPadding(0, 0, 0, 0);
Tested on mobile and tablet devices both.
Kotlin
supportActionBar?.displayOptions = ActionBar.DISPLAY_SHOW_CUSTOM;
supportActionBar?.setCustomView(R.layout.actionbar);
val parent = supportActionBar?.customView?.parent as Toolbar
parent?.setPadding(0, 0, 0, 0)//for tab otherwise give space in tab
parent?.setContentInsetsAbsolute(0, 0)
I did not find a solution for my issue (first picture) anywhere, but at last I end up with a simplest solution after a few hours of digging. Please note that I tried with a lot of xml attributes like app:setInsetLeft="0dp", etc.. but none of them helped in this case.
Picture 1
the following code solved this issue as in the Picture 2
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
//NOTE THAT: THE PART SOLVED THE PROBLEM.
android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout abl = (AppBarLayout)
findViewById(R.id.app_bar_main_app_bar_layout);
abl.setPadding(0,0,0,0);
}
Picture 2
Create toolbar like this:
<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/menuToolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_margin="0dp"
android:background="#color/white"
android:contentInsetLeft="10dp"
android:contentInsetRight="10dp"
android:contentInsetStart="10dp"
android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:padding="0dp"
app:contentInsetLeft="10dp"
app:contentInsetRight="10dp"
app:contentInsetStart="10dp"></android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>
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only adding android:padding="0dp" work for me
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="60dp"
android:padding="0dp"
android:theme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar"
app:popupTheme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light">
ActionBar ab = getSupportActionBar();
ab.setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(true);
ab.setDisplayShowCustomEnabled(true);
setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(true);
View customView = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.activity_main,null); //here activity_main.xml is the GUI design file.
ab.setCustomView(customView);
Toolbar parent =(Toolbar) customView.getParent(); //use V7 Toolbar import
parent.setContentInsetsAbsolute(0, 0);
setPadding(5,0,0,0);
ab.setIcon(R.mipmap.ic_launcher);
You can just use relative layout inside toolbar view group in your xml file and adjust the positions of widgets as you require them for your use case.No need to create custom layout & inflate it and attach to toolbar. Once done in your java code use setContentInsetsAbsolute(0,0) with your toolbar object before setting it as support action bar in your layout.
It would be better to add a background item into the style of the app actionbar to consistent with the background color of the customized actionbar:
<item name="android:background">#color/actionbar_bgcolor</item>
After android 6.0, the actionbar even has a margin-right space and cannot be set. Add a right margin adjusting in the activity like this: (the view is the customized actionbar or a right button in it)
int rightMargin = Build.VERSION.SDK_INT>=Build.VERSION_CODES.M ? 0 : 8; // may the same with actionbar leftMargin in px
ViewGroup.MarginLayoutParams p = (ViewGroup.MarginLayoutParams) view.getLayoutParams();
p.setMargins(p.leftMargin, p.topMargin, rightMargin, p.bottomMargin);
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.JELLY_BEAN_MR1){
p.setMarginEnd(rightMargin);
}
view.setLayoutParams(p);
The actionbar machenism is just supported after Android 3.0+ app. If we use a toolbar (of support lib v7) instead, we should layout it in each xml of each activity, and take care of the issue of overlapping with system status bar in the Android 5.0 or later device.
Im trying to customize the actionbar sherlock tabs so they display the tab text below the tab icon. After searching and reading about the subject, I'm still not having much luck.
Here are the results I'm getting:
Custom tab1 selected
Custom tab1 not selected, standard tab2 selected
This is what I have so far:
Created my own styles.xml where I change some of the actionbar settings:
<style name="SkoletubeTheme" parent="Theme.Sherlock">
<item name="actionBarSize">#dimen/st__action_bar_default_height</item>
<item name="actionBarTabStyle">#style/Skoletube.TabView</item>
<item name="actionBarTabTextStyle">#style/Skoletube.Tab.Text</item>
</style>
<style name="Skoletube.TabView" parent="Widget.Sherlock.ActionBar.TabView">
<item name="android:background">#drawable/abs__tab_indicator_holo</item>
<item name="android:paddingLeft">6dp</item>
<item name="android:paddingRight">6dp</item>
</style>
<style name="Skoletube.Tab.Text" parent="Widget.Sherlock.ActionBar.TabText">
<item name="android:textAppearance">#android:style/TextAppearance.Medium</item>
<item name="android:textColor">#android:color/primary_text_dark</item>
<item name="android:textSize">10sp</item>
</style>
Created an xml ressource where I change and owerwrite some textsettings for the actionbar. Here I have increased the height of the actionbar, which in turn increases the height of the tabs. I also decreased the size of the text in order to make room for fitting icon and text in the tab
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<!-- Default height of an action bar. -->
<dimen name="st__action_bar_default_height">58dip</dimen>
<!-- Text size for action bar titles -->
<dimen name="ab__action_bar_title_text_size">10dp</dimen>
<!-- Text size for action bar subtitles -->
<dimen name="ab__action_bar_subtitle_text_size">6dp</dimen>
<!-- Top margin for action bar subtitles -->
<dimen name="ab__action_bar_subtitle_top_margin">-3dp</dimen>
<!-- Bottom margin for action bar subtitles -->
<dimen name="ab__action_bar_subtitle_bottom_margin">5dip</dimen>
</resources>
Then I've defined a custom layout for the tabs to use, where I place the text below the icon:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/customTabLayout"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:focusable="true"
android:gravity="center"
style="?attr/actionBarTabStyle"
>
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/sk_abs__tab_icon"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:background="#android:color/transparent"
/>
<com.actionbarsherlock.internal.widget.ScrollingTextView
android:id="#+id/sk_abs__tab_txt"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#id/sk_abs__tab_icon"
android:layout_alignWithParentIfMissing="true"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:lines="1"
android:scrollHorizontally="true"
android:ellipsize="marquee"
android:marqueeRepeatLimit="marquee_forever"
style="#style/Skoletube.Tab.Text"
/>
<FrameLayout
android:id="#+id/abs__tab_custom"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:padding="5dip"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:visibility="gone"
/>
Just for the record the attribute passed as the style for the relative layout points to this:
<style name="Widget.Sherlock.ActionBar.TabBar" parent="android:Widget"></style>
Then I've applied these changes to my app as follows, the first tab has my customized implementation, the second tab has the standard implementation:
final ActionBar actionBar;
actionBar = getSupportActionBar();
actionBar.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(false);
actionBar.setDisplayUseLogoEnabled(true);
// Set up tabs
myMediaTab = actionBar.newTab();
myMediaTab.setCustomView(R.layout.skoletube_tab_layout);
ImageView myMediaImg = (ImageView) myMediaTab.getCustomView().findViewById(R.id.sk_abs__tab_icon);
myMediaImg.setImageResource(R.drawable.tab_mymedia);
ScrollingTextView myMediaText = (ScrollingTextView) myMediaTab.getCustomView().findViewById(R.id.sk_abs__tab_txt);
myMediaText.setText("Tab1");
myMediaTab.setTabListener(this);
myMediaTab.setTag("MyMediaTab");
actionBar.addTab(myMediaTab);
myChannelsTab = actionBar.newTab();
myChannelsTab.setIcon(drawable.tab_mychannels);
myChannelsTab.setText("Tab2");
myChannelsTab.setTabListener(this);
myChannelsTab.setTag("myChannelsTab");
actionBar.addTab(myChannelsTab);
While I think I'm close to the solution, I think I've missed a step somewhere.
Obviously the blue bar behind the text/below the image needs to not be there, but I also haven't seemed to find out where I can set the focused image(I want the img to change color when a tab is selected) andtext color. Do I need to make the imageview focusable and handle it through that or?
I'm still fairly new at this, so the approach I have taken here might be wrong if there is a better/smarter way to go about doing this please do say.
Appreciate any suggestions and ideas.
I have solved that by using a compound drawable:
tv = new TextView(this);
tv.setText(R.string.tab_movies);
tv.setCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds(0, R.drawable.nav_movies, 0, 0);
mBar.addTab(mBar
.newTab()
.setCustomView(tv)
.setTabListener(
new TabListenerImpl<TheatersTabActivity>(this, "theaters",
TheatersTabActivity.class)));
In order to deal with the selected or not selected image, I am using a selector:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<selector xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item
android:state_selected="true"
android:drawable="#drawable/nav_movies_on"/>
<item
android:state_selected="false"
android:drawable="#drawable/nav_movies_off"/>
</selector>
I don't know if you have found an answer for this or not yet but one solution could be to modify the tab image to include the text, with GIMP or photoshop something, and then just set those images in the tabs, instead of images and text. It is a bit of an awkward way of doing it but it would work.
Hope this helps!