android: adding button to the title of the app?

Question

Is it possible to add a button to the right corner of the app title?

e.g., adding a "refresh" button to the title of "Feed: my feeds"?

http://www.android.com/market/apps/feedr-lg-01.jpg

Answer 1

The simplest way to do that, IMHO, is to get rid of the standard title bar (android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar" in the <activity> element in the manifest) and put your own "title bar" at the top of the activity.

Note, though, that the "button in the title bar" style is more iPhone-ish. Android would typically have that in the option menu, so the UI is less cluttered (at the cost of two taps to do the refresh).

Answer 2

Why don't you try this

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    final boolean customTitle= requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_CUSTOM_TITLE);

    setContentView(R.layout.main);

    if ( customTitle ) {
        getWindow().setFeatureInt(Window.FEATURE_CUSTOM_TITLE, Set your layout for title here and mention your button in this layout);
    }

    final TextView myTitleText = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.myTitle);
    if ( myTitleText != null ) {
        myTitleText.setText("NEW TITLE");
        myTitleText.setBackgroundColor(Color.BLUE);
    }
}