Android ActionBar custom layout styling

Question

I'm just starting android development coming from IOS and again stubbled onto a problem. And after 1 day of trying i decided that i will ask the people of stack overflow.

So my problem:

I have an app and in the action bar (default no sherlock) i want 1 logo and 2 lines of text. And trough the internet i fount the setCustomView for the action bar. And the custom xml is loaded but i can't get the layout right.

So first i setup the action bar:

private void setupActionBar() {
    ActionBar actionBar = getSupportActionBar();
    actionBar.setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);
    actionBar.setDisplayUseLogoEnabled(false);
    actionBar.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(false);
    actionBar.setDisplayShowCustomEnabled(true);
    actionBar.setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(false);

    LayoutParams lp1 = new LayoutParams(LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT);
    View customNav = LayoutInflater.from(this).inflate(R.layout.actionbar, null); // layout which contains your button.

    actionBar.setCustomView(customNav, lp1);
}

Than the xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_gravity="fill_horizontal"
    android:orientation="horizontal"
    android:background="@color/Blue">

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/text_left"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/title_menu"
        android:textColor="@color/White"
        android:paddingLeft="5dp"
        android:layout_gravity="left"/>

    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/icon"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:src="@drawable/Icon"
        android:layout_gravity="center"/>

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/text_right"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/title_help"
        android:layout_gravity="right"
        android:textColor="@color/White"
        android:paddingRight="5dp"/>

</LinearLayout>

But the result is something what i'm not looking for:

So what am i forgetting/doing wrong/or should i do?

Answer 1

try change the root layout into relative layout

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_gravity="fill_horizontal"
android:orientation="horizontal">

<TextView
    android:text="left text"
    android:layout_toLeftOf="@+id/icon"
    android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
    android:id="@+id/text_left"
    android:gravity="left"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:paddingLeft="5dp"/>

<ImageView
    android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
    android:id="@+id/icon"
    android:layout_width="10dp"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:src="@drawable/bg_sunrise"
    android:layout_gravity="center"/>

<TextView
    android:text="Right txt"
    android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/icon"
    android:id="@+id/text_right"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:gravity="right"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_gravity="right"
    android:paddingRight="5dp"/> </RelativeLayout>

Answer 2

you're not getting your result because:

u need to:

1. if you use AppCompat theme

2. add to your activity layout

3. in code eg. in onCreate() set a toolbar to replace the action bar.