How to center align the ActionBar title in Android?

Question

I am trying to use the following code to center the text in the ActionBar, but it aligns itself to the left.

How do you make it appear in the center?

ActionBar actionBar = getActionBar(); actionBar.setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(true); actionBar.setTitle("Canteen Home"); actionBar.setHomeButtonEnabled(true); actionBar.setIcon(R.drawable.back); 

Answer 1

To have a centered title in ABS (if you want to have this in the default ActionBar, just remove the "support" in the method names), you could just do this:

In your Activity, in your onCreate() method:

getSupportActionBar().setDisplayOptions(ActionBar.DISPLAY_SHOW_CUSTOM);  getSupportActionBar().setCustomView(R.layout.abs_layout); 

abs_layout:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"     android:layout_width="wrap_content"     android:layout_height="wrap_content"         android:layout_gravity="center"     android:orientation="vertical">      <android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatTextView         android:id="@+id/tvTitle"         style="@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Widget.ActionBar.Title"         android:layout_width="wrap_content"         android:layout_height="wrap_content"         android:gravity="center"         android:textColor="#FFFFFF" />  </LinearLayout> 

Now you should have an Actionbar with just a title. If you want to set a custom background, set it in the Layout above (but then don't forget to set android:layout_height="match_parent").

or with:

getSupportActionBar().setBackgroundDrawable(getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.yourimage)); 

Answer 2

I haven't had much success with the other answers... below is exactly what worked for me on Android 4.4.3 using the ActionBar in the support library v7. I have it set up to show the navigation drawer icon ("burger menu button")

XML

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <LinearLayout     xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"     android:layout_width="wrap_content"     android:layout_height="wrap_content"     android:orientation="horizontal" >      <TextView         android:id="@+id/actionbar_textview"         android:layout_width="wrap_content"         android:layout_height="wrap_content"         android:layout_gravity="center"         android:maxLines="1"         android:clickable="false"         android:focusable="false"         android:longClickable="false"         android:textStyle="bold"         android:textSize="18sp"         android:textColor="#FFFFFF" />  </LinearLayout> 

Java

//Customize the ActionBar final ActionBar abar = getSupportActionBar(); abar.setBackgroundDrawable(getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.actionbar_background));//line under the action bar View viewActionBar = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.actionbar_titletext_layout, null); ActionBar.LayoutParams params = new ActionBar.LayoutParams(//Center the textview in the ActionBar !         ActionBar.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT,          ActionBar.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT,          Gravity.CENTER); TextView textviewTitle = (TextView) viewActionBar.findViewById(R.id.actionbar_textview); textviewTitle.setText("Test"); abar.setCustomView(viewActionBar, params); abar.setDisplayShowCustomEnabled(true); abar.setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false); abar.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true); abar.setIcon(R.color.transparent); abar.setHomeButtonEnabled(true);