By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: June 4, 2016
As a quick reminder to self (and an example), you can easily create a Toolbar in Android. Here’s one example that shows a Toolbar defined in some XML layout code:
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar android:id="@+id/toolbar" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="8dp" android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize" android:background="?attr/colorPrimary" app:popupTheme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light"/>
For a little more context, here’s the full source code of that example:
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto" android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent"> <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar android:id="@+id/toolbar" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="8dp" android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize" android:background="?attr/colorPrimary" app:popupTheme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light"/> <FrameLayout android:id="@+id/putPrefsContentHere" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" /> </RelativeLayout>
A Toolbar XML layout example with more options
Here’s another Android Toolbar example that shows several additional configuration options you can use:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto" android:id="@+id/toolbar" app:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize" app:navigationContentDescription="@string/abc_action_bar_up_description" android:background="?attr/colorPrimary" app:navigationIcon="?attr/homeAsUpIndicator" app:title="@string/action_settings" />
Note: I didn’t create these examples; they come from the Stack Overflow website.
I’ll add some more source code here over time, such as how to work with these toolbars from your Java/Android code, but until then, I hope these examples are helpful as is. (I started to use the first example in one of my projects, then realized I didn’t really need it, so I didn’t write much Java code to use it.)