Display Back Arrow on Toolbar

Question

I'm migrating from ActionBar to Toolbar in my application. But I don't know how to display and set click event on Back Arrow on Toolbar like I did on Actionbar.

With ActionBar, I call mActionbar.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true). But there is no the similar method like this.

Has anyone ever faced this situation and somehow found a way to solve it?

Answer 1

I used this method from the Google Developer Documentation:

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
  ...
  getActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
}

If you get a null pointer exception it could depend on the theme. Try using a different theme in the manifest or use this alternatively:

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
  ...
  getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
}

Then in the manifest, where I set the parent activity for current activity:

<activity
        android:name="com.example.myapp.MyCurrentActivity"
        android:label="@string/title_activity_display_message"
     android:parentActivityName="com.example.myfirstapp.MainActivity" >
    <!-- Parent activity meta-data to support 4.0 and lower -->
    <meta-data
        android:name="android.support.PARENT_ACTIVITY"
        android:value="com.example.myapp.MyMainActivity" />
</activity>

I hope this will help you!

Answer 2

Easily you can do it.

Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
setSupportActionBar(toolbar);

getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(true);
@Override
public boolean onSupportNavigateUp() {
    onBackPressed();
    return true;
}

Credits: https://freakycoder.com/android-notes-24-how-to-add-back-button-at-toolbar-941e6577418e

Answer 3

This worked perfectly

public class BackButton extends AppCompatActivity {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.chat_box);
        Toolbar chatbox_toolbar=(Toolbar)findViewById(R.id.chat_box_toolbar);
        chatbox_toolbar.setTitle("Demo Back Button");
        chatbox_toolbar.setTitleTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.white));
        setSupportActionBar(chatbox_toolbar);
        getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
        getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(true);
        chatbox_toolbar.setNavigationOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {

                //Define Back Button Function
            }
        });
    }
}

Answer 4

There are many ways to achieve that, here is my favorite:

Layout:

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
    android:id="@+id/toolbar"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
    app:navigationIcon="?attr/homeAsUpIndicator" />

Activity:

    Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);

    toolbar.setNavigationOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            // back button pressed
        }
    });

Answer 5

If you are using an ActionBarActivity then you can tell Android to use the Toolbar as the ActionBar like so:

Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.my_awesome_toolbar);
setSupportActionBar(toolbar);

And then calls to

getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(true);

will work. You can also use that in Fragments that are attached to ActionBarActivities you can use it like this:

((ActionBarActivity) getActivity()).getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
((ActionBarActivity) getActivity()).getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(true);

If you are not using ActionBarActivities or if you want to get the back arrow on a Toolbar that's not set as your SupportActionBar then you can use the following:

mActionBar.setNavigationIcon(getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.ic_action_back));
mActionBar.setNavigationOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
   @Override
   public void onClick(View v) {
       //What to do on back clicked
   }
});

If you are using android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar, then you should add the following code to your AppCompatActivity:

@Override
public boolean onSupportNavigateUp() {
    onBackPressed();
    return true;
}

Answer 6

    Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
    toolbar.setNavigationIcon(R.drawable.back_arrow); // your drawable
    toolbar.setNavigationOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            onBackPressed(); // Implemented by activity
        }
    });

And for API 21+ android:navigationIcon

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
    android:navigationIcon="@drawable/back_arrow"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"/>