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

You can achieve same by method as well:

Drawable d = new InsetDrawable(getDrawable(R.drawable.nav_icon),0,0,10,0);
mToolbar.setLogo(d);

Answer 2

This is how I was able to set the padding between the home icon and the title.

ImageView view = (ImageView)findViewById(android.R.id.home);
view.setPadding(left, top, right, bottom);

I couldn't find a way to customize this via the ActionBar xml styles though. That is, the following XML doesn't work:

<style name="ActionBar" parent="android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar">        
    <item name="android:titleTextStyle">@style/ActionBarTitle</item>
    <item name="android:icon">@drawable/ic_action_home</item>        
</style>

<style name="ActionBarTitle" parent="android:style/TextAppearance.Holo.Widget.ActionBar.Title">
    <item name="android:textSize">18sp</item>
    <item name="android:paddingLeft">12dp</item>   <!-- Can't get this padding to work :( -->
</style>

However, if you are looking to achieve this through xml, these two links might help you find a solution:

https://github.com/android/platform_frameworks_base/blob/master/core/res/res/values/styles.xml

(This is the actual layout used to display the home icon in an action bar) https://github.com/android/platform_frameworks_base/blob/master/core/res/res/layout/action_bar_home.xml

Answer 3

When you are using a custom Toolbar, you can use

toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
toolbar.setTitle(R.string.activity_title);
setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
getSupportActionBar().setLogo(R.drawable.logo);

and in your toolbar layout simply set app:titleMarginStart="16dp"

Note that you have to set the icon as a logo, don't use getSupportActionBar().setIcon(R.drawable.logo) instead use: getSupportActionBar().setLogo(R.drawable.logo)