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Kareem Essam Gaber
Kareem Essam Gaber

Reputation: 643

android title won't show in toolbar

I have an xml that I use with so many activities with fragments file but my problem is that I can't display the text I want in the toolbar, I use that xml that way because I have a navigation drawer and I needed to handle somethings so I had to do it that way.

my xml:

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:id="@+id/frame_container"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context=".StatusActivity"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
        android:id="@+id/toolbar"
        style="@style/ToolBarStyle"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
        android:minHeight="@dimen/abc_action_bar_default_height_material" />

</RelativeLayout>

One of my activities:

public class GroupChatActivity extends ActionBarActivity {

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_base_layout);

        Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
         setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
         getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(true);

         ActionBar actionBar = getSupportActionBar();
         actionBar.setTitle("Groups history");

        Aniways.init(this);

        if(savedInstanceState == null)
        {
            FragmentManager manager = getSupportFragmentManager();

            Fragment fragment = GroupChatFragment.newInstance(getIntent().getIntExtra("uid", 0));
            manager.beginTransaction().add(R.id.frame_container, fragment).commit();
        }
    }
}

as you can see I try to set title to the action bar but it doesn't work.

Upvotes: 35

Views: 38447

Answers (10)

Aman Srivastava
Aman Srivastava

Reputation: 975

Given below code worked me:

 Toolbar myToolBar = findViewById(R.id.my_toolbar);
 setSupportActionBar(myToolBar);
 getSupportActionBar().setTitle(getString(R.string.toolbar_title_note));

First I tried with getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(true); and then without it. It worked for both of the cases.

These are gradle settings for my project:

minSdkVersion 16
targetSdkVersion 30
compileSdkVersion 30
buildToolsVersion "30.0.3"

Upvotes: 0

Nurseyit Tursunkulov
Nurseyit Tursunkulov

Reputation: 9400

if your title color is white and the toolbar is also white, you will not differentiate it. So try to change the toolbar color

Upvotes: 0

MainActivity
MainActivity

Reputation: 1690

I spent about a day looking for the cause of the issue. Neither supportActionBar?.title = "SomeTitle" nor supportActionBar?.setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(true) did not work, nor hacks with custom toolbars from answers here looked good.

My activity is using CollapsingToolbarLayout but not displaying any title, nor label from manifest, nor dynamically set one. But the sample ScrollingActivity (New - Activity - ...) displayed the title.

Finally I set up a sample project, copied MyActivity and ScrollingActivity and looked through the diff.

layout_height both of the AppBarLayout and CollapsingToolbarLayout must be set to match_parent or fixed size. Thats all. See working code below.

<com.google.android.material.appbar.AppBarLayout
            android:id="@+id/app_bar"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="180dp"
            android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
            android:theme="@style/AppTheme.AppBarOverlay"
            >

        <com.google.android.material.appbar.CollapsingToolbarLayout
                android:id="@+id/toolbar_layout"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="match_parent"
                android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
                app:layout_scrollFlags="scroll|exitUntilCollapsed"
                app:toolbarId="@id/toolbar"
                app:contentScrim="?attr/colorPrimary"
                >

            <androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar
                    android:id="@+id/toolbar"
                    android:layout_width="match_parent"
                    android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
                    android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
                    app:popupTheme="@style/AppTheme.PopupOverlay"
                    app:layout_collapseMode="pin"
                    />

        </com.google.android.material.appbar.CollapsingToolbarLayout>
    </com.google.android.material.appbar.AppBarLayout>

Upvotes: 4

Matteo
Matteo

Reputation: 337

I actually had to get the toolbar_title to set the text into each different activity:

    toolbar = findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
    toolbarTitle = findViewById(R.id.toolbar_title);   //<----- here
    toolbarTitle.setText(getString(R.string.my_activity_toolbar_title));
    setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
    getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);

Upvotes: 0

Kyle Mew
Kyle Mew

Reputation: 11

getActionBar().setTitle("Groups History");

or if you are using AppCompat libraries;

getSupportActionBar().setTitle("Groups History");

Upvotes: 1

Chad Mx
Chad Mx

Reputation: 1324

Setting, 

app:title="@string/my_title"

within the declaration of the the android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar, hard codes the title in the toolbar.

To set the title programatically,

Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.my_toolbar);
toolbar.setTitle("my title");
setSupportActionBar(toolbar);

in your activity class.

Upvotes: 23

A. Senna
A. Senna

Reputation: 131

I did a custom action bar.

Layout iguepardos_action_bar.xml with this code 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:local="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:id="@+id/toolbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="@color/blanco"
android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize">

    <TextView
    android:id="@+id/toolbar_title"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_gravity="left"
    android:singleLine="true"
    android:text="Toolbar Title"
    android:textColor="@color/naranja"
    android:textSize="18sp" />

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

In my Class extended AppCompatActivity I had this:

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
.... 
....

getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowCustomEnabled(true); // is for specify use custom bar 
getSupportActionBar().setCustomView(R.layout.iguepardos_action_bar);  // my custom layout
getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true); // Button for come back

View mCustomView = getSupportActionBar().getCustomView(); // Set the view
TextView TitleToolBar = (TextView) mCustomView.findViewById(R.id.toolbar_title); // find title control
TitleToolBar.setText("The Title Show"); // Set the Title

}

Upvotes: 1

Swaminathan V
Swaminathan V

Reputation: 4781

Try this .. this method works for me..!! hope it may help somebody..!!

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar  
 xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"  
 android:id="@+id/my_awesome_toolbar"  
 android:layout_width="match_parent"  
 android:layout_height="wrap_content"  
 android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"  
 android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"  
 app:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar" >  

<TextView  
   android:id="@+id/toolbar_title"  
   android:layout_width="wrap_content"  
   android:layout_height="wrap_content"  
   android:layout_gravity="center"  
   android:singleLine="true"  
   android:text="Toolbar Title"  
   android:textColor="@android:color/white"  
   android:textSize="18sp"  
   android:textStyle="bold" />  

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

EDIT

You can also use this. 

setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
if (getSupportActionBar() != null)
      getSupportActionBar().setTitle("Toolbar title");

Upvotes: 8

massaimara98
massaimara98

Reputation: 7459

getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(true);

Upvotes: 52

Curtis Murphy
Curtis Murphy

Reputation: 304

Try toolbar.setTitle('Groups history');

Upvotes: 1

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