I'm using the Showcase
library to explain my application feature to
the user. In some point I need to dim the whole ActionBar
to present
another feature to the user.
For that I'm using the setAlpha(float num)
of the View
class. And so for doing that I need to get the actual view instance of my ActionBar
By the way, I'm using the support-7-appcompat
library that gives ActionBar support for older systems.
Update
In the meantime I found this option, if you configure a custom view and add it to you ActionBar
using:
getSupportActionBar().setCustomView(v);
Then to get the View
of the ActionBar
you could do:
(View) activity.getSupportActionBar().getCustomView().getParent().getParent()
Is there a simpler or easier way to do that?
Yep. You can actually get the view by using this function:
public View getActionBarView() {
Window window = getWindow();
View v = window.getDecorView();
int resId = getResources().getIdentifier("action_bar_container", "id", "android");
return v.findViewById(resId);
}
Pretty much the way this works is that the actionbar container uses the id android.R.id.action_bar_container
, but this id is not public. Therefore we use getIdentifier() to retrieve this id and then the rest is simple.
I think this solution is more complete, handling both normal Activity and ActionBarActivity.
It also handles the case that the actionbar was set using a toolbar, but you need to implement it in the activity you've created:
public static View getActionBarView(final Activity activity) {
if (activity instanceof IToolbarHolder)
return ((IToolbarHolder) activity).getToolbar();
final String packageName = activity instanceof ActionBarActivity ? activity.getPackageName() : "android";
final int resId = activity.getResources().getIdentifier("action_bar_container", "id", packageName);
final View view = activity.findViewById(resId);
return view;
}
public interface IToolbarHolder {
public android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar getToolbar();
}
for support.v7 getActionBarView(ById) doesn't work.
this returns actionBar Toolbar :
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
ViewGroup actionBar = getActionBar(getWindow().getDecorView());
TextView actionBarTitle = (TextView) actionBar.getChildAt(0);
}
public ViewGroup getActionBar(View view) {
try {
if (view instanceof ViewGroup) {
ViewGroup viewGroup = (ViewGroup) view;
if (viewGroup instanceof android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar) {
return viewGroup;
}
for (int i = 0; i < viewGroup.getChildCount(); i++) {
ViewGroup actionBar = getActionBar(viewGroup.getChildAt(i));
if (actionBar != null) {
return actionBar;
}
}
}
} catch (Exception e) {
}
return null;
}
I made a little fix on @idunnololz code to support ActionBarSherlock
private View getActionBarView() {
int actionViewResId = 0;
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB) {
actionViewResId = getResources().getIdentifier(
"abs__action_bar_container", "id", getPackageName());
} else {
actionViewResId = Resources.getSystem().getIdentifier(
"action_bar_container", "id", "android");
}
if (actionViewResId > 0) {
return this.findViewById(actionViewResId);
}
return null;
}
This will get the Toolbar
/ActionBar
when using the native ActionBar
, your own Toolbar
from appcompat, or the native Toolbar
on Lollipop:
public static ViewGroup findActionBar(Activity activity) {
int id = activity.getResources().getIdentifier("action_bar", "id", "android");
ViewGroup actionBar = null;
if (id != 0) {
actionBar = (ViewGroup) activity.findViewById(id);
}
if (actionBar == null) {
actionBar = findToolbar((ViewGroup) activity.findViewById(android.R.id.content)
.getRootView());
}
return actionBar;
}
private static ViewGroup findToolbar(ViewGroup viewGroup) {
ViewGroup toolbar = null;
for (int i = 0, len = viewGroup.getChildCount(); i < len; i++) {
View view = viewGroup.getChildAt(i);
if (view.getClass().getName().equals("android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar")
|| view.getClass().getName().equals("android.widget.Toolbar")) {
toolbar = (ViewGroup) view;
} else if (view instanceof ViewGroup) {
toolbar = findToolbar((ViewGroup) view);
}
if (toolbar != null) {
break;
}
}
return toolbar;
}