android-actionbar

How to change size of title’s text on Action Bar?

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Actually, you can do what you want to customize the ActionBar. It must be done through the Theme. You can do something like this : <style name=”Theme.YourTheme” parent=”android:style/Theme”> <item name=”android:actionBarStyle”>@style/Theme.YourTheme.Styled.ActionBar</item> </style> <style name=”Theme.YourTheme.Styled.ActionBar”> <item name=”android:titleTextStyle”>@style/Theme.Viadeo.Styled.YourTheme.TitleTextStyle</item> </style> <style name=”Theme.YourTheme.Styled.ActionBar.TitleTextStyle” parent=”@android:style/Widget.TextView”> <item name=”android:textSize”>12sp</item> </style>

How to get text on an ActionBar Icon?

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Here is some example code that worked for me. 1: Create a layout for your badge menu item. <RelativeLayout xmlns:android=”http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android” android:layout_width=”48dp” android:layout_height=”fill_parent” android:layout_gravity=”right” > <!– Menu Item Image –> <ImageView android:layout_width=”48dp” android:layout_height=”fill_parent” android:clickable=”true” android:src=”https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13288989/@drawable/bkg_actionbar_notify_off” /> <!– Badge Count –> <TextView android:id=”@+id/actionbar_notifcation_textview” android:layout_width=”wrap_content” android:layout_height=”wrap_content” android:layout_alignParentRight=”true” android:padding=”@dimen/padding_small” android:text=”99″ android:textColor=”@color/holo_orange_dark” /> </RelativeLayout> 2: Create a menu item in … Read more

How to align title at center of ActionBar in default theme(Theme.Holo.Light)

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You can create a custom layout and apply it to the actionBar. To do so, follow those 2 simple steps: Java Code getSupportActionBar().setDisplayOptions(ActionBar.DISPLAY_SHOW_CUSTOM); getSupportActionBar().setCustomView(R.layout.actionbar); Where R.layout.actionbar is the following layout. XML <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?> <LinearLayout xmlns:android=”http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android” android:layout_width=”match_parent” android:layout_height=”wrap_content” android:layout_gravity=”center” android:orientation=”vertical”> <TextView android:layout_width=”wrap_content” android:layout_height=”wrap_content” android:layout_gravity=”center” android:id=”@+id/action_bar_title” android:text=”YOUR ACTIVITY TITLE” android:textColor=”#ffffff” android:textSize=”24sp” /> </LinearLayout> It can be … Read more

AppCompat v7 Toolbar onOptionsItemSelected not called

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I know this question has been answered but I found the real cause of the problem after 2 days of frustration. Take a look at the ActionBarDrawerToggle documentation: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v7/app/ActionBarDrawerToggle.html Notice the two constructors there. My mistake was that I was using the second constructor that was taking a toolbar as a parameter. It took me … Read more

Android : Change entire app layout directions programmatically

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You can use this piece of code while your application’s minSdk >= 17. I used fa for Farsi, you can use other rtl language. Configuration configuration = getResources().getConfiguration(); configuration.setLayoutDirection(new Locale(“fa”)); getResources().updateConfiguration(configuration, getResources().getDisplayMetrics());