I have a login screen with two options in my app - "login" and "create account". I want to implement the following thing, for example, on login screen :
I've got one activity and another, by tapping on "UP" button i want to return back. I have the following constructor of desired activity:
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_bl__login_form_view_controller);
getActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
//----------------------added source - no effect-----------------------
getActionBar().setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(true);
getActionBar().setIcon(R.drawable.circle) ;
getActionBar().setTitle("A title");
//---------------------------------------------------------------------
setTitle ("Вход") ;
}
And i have UP button. How can i add circle image and some text? All tutorials say, that i can set app icon in AppManifest, but it would change app icon on main screen. And how can i add text to back button? I don't wanna implement any navigation logic or set parent activity for whole app, because it's a login screen, and the main menu with the navigation logic will be shown only after authorization. Thanks in advance!
setTitle
will set the title and setIcon
will set the icon to the ActionBar
.
getActionBar().setTitle("Your Title");
getActionBar().setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(true);
getActionBar().setHomeButtonEnabled(true);
getActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
getActionBar().setIcon(R.drawable.youricon);
Reference :Adding Up Action and http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/actionbar.html
What about:
getActionBar().setIcon(R.drawable.circle);
use getActionBar().setIcon(R.drawable.youricon)
for setting the icon and getActionBar().setTitle("A title");
for setting the text next to the icon.
For the icon:
getActionBar().setIcon(R.drawable.youricon);
For the title:
getActionBar().setTitle("A title");
you can use custom action bar using your own layout
actionBar.setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(false);
actionBar.setHomeButtonEnabled(false);
actionBar.setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);
actionBar.setDisplayShowCustomEnabled(true);
final ViewGroup actionBarLayout = (ViewGroup)getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.yourXML, null);
actionBarLayout.findViewById(R.id.buttonId).setOnClickListener(this);
actionBar.setCustomView(actionBarLayout);
its work for me. so i hope its work for you.
The accepted answer serves the problem well. I'm just adding some additional information of using a custom action bar layout.
getActionBar().setTitle("Your Title");
getActionBar().setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(true);
getActionBar().setHomeButtonEnabled(true);
getActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
getActionBar().setIcon(R.drawable.youricon);
// You can use setLogo instead like
// getActionBar().setIcon(R.drawable.youricon);
// In case of support action bar, if its not showing properly, you need to add display options
//getActionBar().setDisplayOptions(actionBar.getDisplayOptions() | ActionBar.DISPLAY_SHOW_CUSTOM);
Now here's a code segment describing how to use a custom layout in android actionbar.
// Make a layout named 'custom_actionbar' and simply add elements you want to show in your actionbar.
final ViewGroup actionBarLayout = (ViewGroup) getLayoutInflater()
.inflate(R.layout.custom_actionbar, null);
// Now for support action bar, get the action bar
actionBar = getSupportActionBar();
// Set necessary attributes
actionBar.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
actionBar.setHomeButtonEnabled(true);
actionBar.setElevation(0);
// Set the custom layout in actionbar here
actionBar.setCustomView(actionBarLayout);
actionBar.setDisplayOptions(actionBar.getDisplayOptions()
| ActionBar.DISPLAY_SHOW_CUSTOM);
// Now handle the elements of the custom layout here
Button b1 = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button1);
// Set actions for Button 1 here
b1.setText("Button 1");
// Another element in custom actionbar
ImageView iv1 = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.myImage);
iv1.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.myImagePlaceHolder);
Place the codes in onCrate and check yourself.