Padding between ActionBar's home icon and titl

Question

Does anybody know how to set padding between the ActionBar's home icon and the title?

Answer 1

In your XML, set the app:titleMargin in your Toolbar view as following:

<androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar
            android:id="@+id/toolbar"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
            app:titleMarginStart="16dp"/>

Or in your code:

toolbar.setTitleMargin(16,16,16,16); // start, top, end, bottom

Answer 2

I also faced a similar issue, in my case I had to set titles dynamically on each activity depending on the content.

So this worked for me.

actionBar.setTitle("  " + yourActivityTitle);

If all you want is the spacing, this is the easiest solution I could think of.

Answer 3

this work for me to add padding to the title and for ActionBar icon i have set that programmatically.

 getActionBar().setTitle(Html.fromHtml("<font color='#fffff'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Boat App </font>"));

Answer 4

For my case, it was with Toolbar i resolved it like this:

ic_toolbar_drawble.xml

<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item
    android:drawable="@drawable/ic_toolbar"
    android:right="-16dp"
    android:left="-16dp"/>
</layer-list>

In my Fragment, i check the api :

if (android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP)
      toolbar.setLogo(R.drawable.ic_toolbar);
else
      toolbar.setLogo(R.drawable.ic_toolbar_draweble);

Good luck!

Answer 5

For me only the following combination worked, tested from API 18 to 24

app:contentInsetLeft="0dp"
app:contentInsetStart="0dp"
app:contentInsetStartWithNavigation="0dp"

where in "app" is : xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"

for example.

 <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
                android:id="@+id/toolbar"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
                android:background="@color/SE_Life_Green"
                app:contentInsetLeft="0dp"
                app:contentInsetStart="0dp"
                app:contentInsetStartWithNavigation="0dp"
                >
                .......
                .......
                .......
            </android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>

Answer 6

This is a common question in Material Design as you may want to line your toolbars title with the content in the fragment below. To do this, you can override the default padding of "12dp" by using the attribute contentInsetStart="72dp" in your toolbar.xml layout as shown below

toolbar.xml

<?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"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:background="@color/app_theme_color"
    app:contentInsetStart="72dp"/>

Then in your activity, call

Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) activity.findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
toolbar.setTitle("Title Goes Here");

And you end up with this: