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Hirak Chhatbar
Hirak Chhatbar

Reputation: 3181

android toolbar for pre lollipop devices

I encountered many issues when I changed from ActionBar to Toolbar. i have listed them here

1 ) I have many fragments which are added/replaced using backstack. everything was working fine when i press back button but when I changed to Toolbar, application closes when i press back button.

2 ) Background of popup menu is black. 

<item name="android:popupMenuStyle">@style/PopupMenu</item>
<style name="PopupMenu" parent="@android:style/Widget.PopupMenu">
    <item name="android:popupBackground">@android:color/white</item>
</style>

even this didnt worked.

If I use AppCompat.Light theme, background color of popupmenu is white, but then NavigationIndicator icons and all that becomes black

3 ) This is my menu style. Here item with id "add" is not shown instead i have used showAsAction as always. it is there in the menu (menu that inflates when i press that 3 vertical dots button), but the icon is not visible.

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
tools:context=".com.hirak.assistere_doit.do_it_main_screen">

<item android:id="@+id/action_settings"
    android:orderInCategory="100"
    android:showAsAction="never"
    android:title="Settings" />
<item android:id="@+id/add"
    android:icon="@drawable/add"
    android:showAsAction="always"/>

</menu>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2057

Answers (2)

despecher
despecher

Reputation: 805

About back button issues.
I had the same problem when i changed to Toolbar.
Problem was in using FragmentManager instead of support.v4.app.FragmentManager. Creating FragmentManager object by getSupportFragmentManager() method and changing all fragments import to android.support.v4.app.Fragment - solved this problem for me.

Upvotes: 0

Ben Neill
Ben Neill

Reputation: 2999

In order to style the popup menu, you need to apply a popup

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar android:id="@+id/toolbar" app:theme="@style/ActionBar" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" app:popupTheme="@style/ToolbarPopup" />

and then in your theme, override the values you want changed

<style name="ToolbarPopup" parent="Widget.AppCompat.Light.PopupMenu">
    <item name="android:background">@color/white</item>
    <item name="android:textSize">14sp</item>
</style>

to change the navigation indicators to white, add to your toolbar 

<style name="ActionBar" parent="Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar">
    ...
    <item name="android:textColorSecondary">@color/white</item>
    <item name="actionMenuTextColor">@color/white</item>
    <item name="android:textColorPrimary">@color/white</item>
</style>

As for the back button issues, I would need more info - code etc.

Upvotes: 6

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