How to create a Back Button in Material Design

Question

I cannot find a tutorial about adding this button in the Action bar in Material Design.

How can I add this into the action bar on Lollipop?

Answer 1

try this

in on create:

getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);

in your activity class (assuming you want to close this activity)

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    switch (item.getItemId()) {
    case android.R.id.home:
        finish();
        return true;
    default:
        return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
    }
}

Answer 2

Material Design Tutorial This will give you brief idea how to implement material app.

If you are using ActionBarActivity with AppCompat Theme use:

getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);

Also you may have to call setHomeButtonEnabled(true) in same manner. It will look like this: