I want to create an android application which has 3 sliding tab panel and each of them will 5 button (save,new,delete,exit..).
What I want is exactly as follow:
I created sliding tab panel.And for 5 button, I added split action bar.But It works as normal split action bar.My AndroidManifest.xml is:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="com.belsoft.myapplication">
<application
android:allowBackup="true"
android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
android:label="@string/app_name"
android:supportsRtl="true"
android:uiOptions="splitActionBarWhenNarrow"
android:theme="@style/AppTheme">
<activity
android:name=".MainActivity"
android:label="@string/app_name"
android:theme="@style/AppTheme.NoActionBar">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
</application>
</manifest>
Where is my wrong?
To implement splitActionBar
:
Just add android:uiOptions="splitActionBarWhenNarrow"
to your activity
tag in theAndroidManifest.xml
like this...
`<activity
android:name=".MainActivity"
android:uiOptions="splitActionBarWhenNarrow">`<br>
You can read more here and here
NOTE: It is available ONLY for handset devices with a screen width
of 400dp
.
To create a custom bottom toolbar:
If you want to set it for all devices, please check my answer (find a post starting with Creating custom bottom toolbar
) here:
Creating custom bottom toolbar
I've already created a simple app which should demonstrate you how to
begin
Creating a custom ViewGroup
Here's my activity_main.xml
layout file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:padding="0dp"
tools:context="com.example.piotr.myapplication.MainActivity">
<LinearLayout
android:id="@+id/show_pdf"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="40dp"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:background="@color/primary_material_light"
android:orientation="horizontal">
<ImageButton
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:src="@drawable/abc_ic_menu_cut_mtrl_alpha"/>
<ImageButton
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:src="@drawable/abc_ic_menu_copy_mtrl_am_alpha"/>
<ImageButton
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:src="@drawable/abc_ic_menu_selectall_mtrl_alpha"/>
<ImageButton
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:src="@drawable/abc_ic_menu_paste_mtrl_am_alpha"/>
<ImageButton
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:src="@drawable/abc_ic_menu_share_mtrl_alpha"/>
<ImageButton
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:src="@drawable/abc_ic_menu_selectall_mtrl_alpha"/>
<ImageButton
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:src="@drawable/abc_ic_menu_moreoverflow_mtrl_alpha"/>
</LinearLayout>
<EditText
android:id="@+id/editText"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_marginTop="75dp"
android:ems="10"
android:inputType="textPersonName"
android:text="Name"/>
</RelativeLayout>
As you can see my parent ViewGroup
is RelativeLayout
, which simply
allows me to create a view at the bottom of screen.
Notice that I set layout padding to zero (I think: setting layout
margin to zero here is not necessary, the same effect). If you'd
change it, the toolbar won't use full width and it won't stick with
bottom of the screen.
Then I added a Linear Layout with hardcoded height which is:
android:layout_height="40dp"
I wanted it, that my bottom toolbar would take full available width so
I set it as match_parent
.
Next, I added some ImageButton
views with images from Android
library.
There you have two possibilities:
After removing weights and some buttons you would get a view pretty
similar to expected:
- if you want to take the full width and make every button with the same size use in your project
weight
as in this mine example.
Now let's go to my AndroidManifest.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest package="com.example.piotr.myapplication"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<application
android:allowBackup="true"
android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
android:label="@string/app_name"
android:supportsRtl="true"
android:theme="@style/AppTheme">
<activity
android:name=".MainActivity"
android:windowSoftInputMode="stateVisible|adjustResize">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN"/>
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"/>
</intent-filter>
</activity>
</application>
</manifest>
In that file I'd added as you can see only one additional line:
android:windowSoftInputMode="stateVisible|adjustResize">
to make sure that device keyboard won't hide my custom bottom toolbar.
From: How to add a bottom menu to Android activity
If you have any question please free to ask.
Hope it help