How to add buttons like refresh and search in ToolBar in Android?

Question

I have made a ToolBar, but when I add menu items in menu.xml it always shows as an overflow. How do I add it separately? Moreover the Title is shown in the middle (vertically), how do I show it at the top?

menu.xml

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"     xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"     xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"     tools:context="com.example.toolbar.MainActivity" >         <item android:id="@+id/action_search"           android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"           android:title="@string/action_search"           android:showAsAction="ifRoom"           android:orderInCategory="1"            android:menuCategory="secondary"/>      <item         android:id="@+id/action_settings"         android:orderInCategory="100"         android:title="@string/action_settings"         app:showAsAction="never"/>  </menu> 

MainActivity.java

package com.example.toolbar;  import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity; import android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar; import android.os.Bundle; import android.view.Menu; import android.view.MenuItem;   public class MainActivity extends ActionBarActivity {      @Override     protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {         super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);         setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);         Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.my_awesome_toolbar);         setSupportActionBar(toolbar);        // toolbar.setNavigationIcon(R.drawable.back);         toolbar.setLogo(R.drawable.ic_launcher);         //toolbar.setTitle("Title");        // toolbar.setSubtitle("Subtitle");          }       @Override     public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {         // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.         getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);         return true;     }      @Override     public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {         // Handle action bar item clicks here. The action bar will         // automatically handle clicks on the Home/Up button, so long         // as you specify a parent activity in AndroidManifest.xml.         int id = item.getItemId();         if (id == R.id.action_settings) {             return true;         }         return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);     } } 

activity_main.xml

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"     xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"     android:layout_width="match_parent"     android:layout_height="match_parent"      tools:context="com.example.toolbar.MainActivity" >       <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar          xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"          android:id="@+id/my_awesome_toolbar"          android:layout_width="fill_parent"          android:layout_height="128dp"          android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"          android:layout_alignParentTop="true"          android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"          android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"          app:theme="@style/ActionBarThemeOverlay">      </android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>    </RelativeLayout> 

Answer 1

OK, I got the icons because I wrote in menu.xml android:showAsAction="ifRoom" instead of app:showAsAction="ifRoom" since i am using v7 library.

However the title is coming at center of extended toolbar. How to make it appear at the top?

Answer 2

Try to do this:

getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false); getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(false); getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false); 

and if you made your custom toolbar (which i presume you did) then you can use the simplest way possible to do this:

toolbarTitle = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.toolbar_title); toolbarSubTitle = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.toolbar_subtitle); toolbarTitle.setText("Title"); toolbarSubTitle.setText("Subtitle"); 

Same goes for any other views you put in your toolbar. Hope it helps.