Android Toolbar style

Question

I've added a Toolbar to my Lollipop project. However, I'm having trouble styling the Toolbar. My title in the Toolbar appears to have a bold font, but I'd like it to be italic. Any idea how to achieve this? I've tried playing around with the actionbar-style, no luck.

I've set a style on the Toolbar with app:theme="@style/toolbar" and my @style/toolbar (parent ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.ActionBar) is where I'm playing around with no good results.

Answer 1

This is actually really easy. There's a method on Toolbar called setTitleTextAppearance() that everyone seems to be overlooking. Just define your custom textAppearance in styles.xml, such as:

    <style name="MyTitleTextApperance" parent="@android:style/TextAppearance.Medium">
    <item name="android:textColor">@android:color/white</item>
    <item name="android:textSize">20sp</item>
</style>

and then in your code, you just call :

    Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
    toolbar.setTitleTextAppearance(this, R.style.MyTitleTextApperance);

and voila!