I'm trying to customize the background of my action bar items with a selector, to override what is shown when the button is pressed.
This was pretty easy with menu buttons (e.g., overflow icon), as you can style them with actionBarItemBackground
.
Sadly this does not apply for the up/home/left indicator. I have unsuccessfully tried, in my styles.xml:
<item name="actionButtonStyle">
;<item name="actionBarStyle">
;<item name="toolbarStyle">
;
None of the nested attributes seem to act on the home icon background. I also searched over android.R.attr and gave a look at this. Is there any way?
I would like to stay with the "up" indicator, without inflating a custom view. In that case, I would also have to inflate the title as well as custom views naturally appear at the end of the title. AND I would lose the burger-to-arrow animation, AND I would have to take care about margins and design guidelines (now managed by AppCompat
), and some other bad thing on the way.
I thought about setting a Logo
, but that would have some complications as well and I don't think I could change the background anyway.
I thought about Toolbar
being a Layout
, so I could put custom views in it from XML. If I'm not wrong they appear after the title, so neither this is a good idea.
What can I do?