CODEWITHSUNDEEP
javaandroidxmlnavigation-drawertoolbar
Garrett Huff
Garrett Huff

Reputation: 81

Custom toolbar on android navigation drawer

Im new to android development and am really struggling to implement a more custom toolbar (or action bar) when using the navigation drawer created in android studio. When I created the navigation drawer activity from the template, the file that seems to be defining the tool bar is app_bar_main.xml here is app_bar_main.xml 

<android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme.AppBarOverlay"
    >
    <android.support.v7.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"
        android:title="Press"
        android:titleTextColor="#FFFFFF"
        />

</android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>

<FrameLayout
    android:id="@+id/fragment_container"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

</FrameLayout>

As you can see, I have tried to change the title (to press) and text color of the tool bar, however when running it, nothing changes and it still just says MainActivity which is what my Navigation drawer activity is called. How can I define this toolbar so I can customize it (center the title, make the background transparent, remove settings button, etc. I do need to keep the hamburger icon to open the drawer obviously) Thanks for the future help everyone! Let me know if I need to provide any other pieces of my code

Upvotes: 1

Views: 7891

Answers (1)

Eugene H
Eugene H

Reputation: 3568

Setting the values inside of xml for the toolbar has never worked for me either. You should do them pragmatically. If you are generating the code from Android Studio, you will see inside of onCreate that it is setting the toolbar to the ActionBar:

Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
setSupportActionBar(toolbar);

One possible option is to remove setSupportActionbar(). 

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main2);
    Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
    // setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
    toolbar.setTitle("Testing");
    toolbar.setTitleTextColor(ContextCompat.getColor(this, R.color.colorAccent));
    toolbar.inflateMenu(R.menu.menu_main);
    toolbar.setOnMenuItemClickListener(new Toolbar.OnMenuItemClickListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onMenuItemClick(MenuItem item) {
            return false;
        }
    });
}

The other is to call getSupprtActionBar()

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main2);
    Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
    toolbar.setTitleTextColor(ContextCompat.getColor(this, R.color.colorAccent));
    setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
    if (getSupportActionBar() != null) {
        getSupportActionBar().setTitle("Testing");
    }
}

/**
 * Here is where you would handle the actionbar items. 
 */
@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main2, menu);
    return true;
}

Upvotes: 2

Related Questions