How to enable homeAsUp or call setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled() on standalone toolbar with appcompat v21

Question

I am trying to convert my app to use the v21 AppCompat library, so I started to use Toolbar instead of ActionBar. In all my regular activities (which extend ActionBarActivity) everything is fine. but in my SettingsActivity which extends PreferenceActivity, and therefore I can't use the setSupportActionBar(actionbar) call I need to use a "standalone" toolbar. The toolbar shows up, but I can't figure out how could I add the "home / up" button to the toolbar.

SettingsActivity.java:

public class SettingsActivity extends PreferenceActivity {
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_settings);
        Toolbar actionbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.actionbar);
        if (null != actionbar) {

            // In every other activity that extends ActionBarActivity I simply use:
            // setSupportActionBar(actionbar);
            // final ActionBar supportActionBar = getSupportActionBar();
            // supportActionBar.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);

            // but in PreferenceActivity you need to add a standalone toolbar:    
            actionbar.setTitle(R.string.title_activity_settings);
            actionbar.setNavigationOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
                @Override
                public void onClick(View v) {
                    SettingsActivity.this.finish();
                }
            });

            // Inflate a menu to be displayed in the toolbar
            actionbar.inflateMenu(R.menu.settings);
        }
    }
}

layout/activity_settings.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
              xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
              tools:context=".SettingsActivity"
              tools:menu="settings"
              tools:actionBarNavMode="standard"
              android:layout_width="match_parent"
              android:layout_height="match_parent"
              android:orientation="vertical">

    <include
        layout="@layout/actionbar"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>

    <ListView
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:id="@android:id/list" />
</LinearLayout>

layout/actionbar.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/actionbar"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
    android:background="?attr/colorPrimaryDark"
    app:theme="@style/AppTheme"
    />

menu/settings.xml:

<menu 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"
    tools:context="com.fletech.android.redalert.SettingsActivity" >
</menu>

I tried to add actionBarStyle and displayOptions to my theme as explained in Show up/back button on android nested PreferenceScreen?, but in other places people said that actionBarStyle won't be used when I use Toolbar, and they seem to be right.

values/themes.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <style name="AppTheme" parent="AppTheme.Base"/>

    <style name="AppTheme.Base" parent="Theme.AppCompat">
        <item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
        <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimary</item>
        <item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
        <item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
        <item name="windowActionModeOverlay">true</item>

        <!-- Set AppCompat’s actionBarStyle -->
        <item name="actionBarStyle">@style/MyActionBar</item>
    </style>

    <style name="MyActionBar" parent="Widget.AppCompat.ActionBar">
        <item name="displayOptions">showHome|homeAsUp|showTitle</item>
    </style>
<resources>

Answer 1

way to late to the party here but i will still provide my 0.02$. i did it the following way to show the up arrow mark in fragment using AppCompactActivity

((MainActivity)getActivity()).getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);

and handle the onClick event inside your activity onOptionsItemSelected

Answer 2

Yout can use ?homeAsUpIndicator instead of R.drawable.abc_ic_ab_back_mtrl_am_alpha:

    <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
        android:id="@+id/toolbar"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:background="?colorPrimary"
        android:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.ActionBar"
        app:navigationIcon="?homeAsUpIndicator"
        app:popupTheme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light"
        app:title="@string/title"
        />

Answer 3

Define a background 9patch for your toolbar ;) it's work. Here is toolbar_background.9.png

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/toolbar"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:background="@drawable/toolbar_background">

    .....

Answer 4

Try XML attribute android:navigationIcon, or app:navigationIcon for API older than 21.

Answer 5

If you provide parent activity name in Manifest.xml and meta-data to support Android 4.0 and lower then you can just set navigation icon (toolbar.setNavigationIcon(R.drawable.ic_action_back);) and it will work.

Manifest.xml example:

    <activity
        android:name=".MainActivity"
        android:label="@string/app_name" >
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>
    <activity
        android:name=".ProductActivity"
        android:label="@string/title_activity_product"
        android:parentActivityName=".MainActivity">
        <meta-data
            android:name="android.support.PARENT_ACTIVITY"
            android:value=".MainActivity" />
    </activity>

Answer 6

@Pedro Oliveira's solution worked. I could even find the drawable that the AppCompat library uses (and therefore is already included in the apk). What more it's also mirrored, so it works both for ltr, rtl locales:

actionbar.setNavigationIcon(R.drawable.abc_ic_ab_back_mtrl_am_alpha);

and this is it alltogether, with the correction from @VictorYakunin

public class SettingsActivity extends PreferenceActivity {
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_settings);
        Toolbar actionbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.actionbar);
        if (null != actionbar) {
            actionbar.setNavigationIcon(R.drawable.abc_ic_ab_back_mtrl_am_alpha);

            actionbar.setTitle(R.string.title_activity_settings);
            actionbar.setNavigationOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
                @Override
                public void onClick(View v) {
                    NavUtils.navigateUpFromSameTask(SettingsActivity.this);
                }
            });

            // Inflate a menu to be displayed in the toolbar
            actionbar.inflateMenu(R.menu.settings);
        }
    }
}

Answer 7

Thank you for the solution, the only point to add is that is better to use

NavUtils.navigateUpFromSameTask(SettingsActivity.this);