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Nathan Walters
Nathan Walters

Reputation: 4136

Android Toolbar: children not matching parent height

I'm trying to create something like the date selector from the new Google Calendar app. The first part of that is to create a button in the Toolbar that fills the parent height and spans the available width. I tried to do that with the following layout:

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
    android:id="@+id/toolbar"
    style="@style/DefaultToolbarStyle">

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:clickable="true"
        android:focusable="true"
        android:background="?android:attr/selectableItemBackground"
        android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal">

        <TextView
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:text="2014 Events"
            android:textAppearance="@style/TextAppearance.Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar.Title" />
    </LinearLayout>

</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>

Normally, telling a child view (in this case the LinearLayout) to match the parent height would make it do just that. However, the LinearLayout only expands vertically just enough to fit its child TextView.

How can I make children of a Toolbar match the Toolbar's height?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2204

Answers (1)

Nikola Despotoski
Nikola Despotoski

Reputation: 50538

Adding android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize" and android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize" will give the Toolbar a height, that is limited and will layout children within this height.

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
    android:id="@+id/toolbar"
    android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
    android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    style="@style/DefaultToolbarStyle">
   <!--- children views --->

</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>

Upvotes: 4

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