how to set toolbar on FragmentActivity?

Question

I want to set toolbar on my activity which extends FragmentActivity. I know that for use setSuppoertActionBar(toolbar) method we extends AppCompatActivity instead of FragmentActivity but I override the onMenuItemSelected(int featureId, MenuItem item) method which is final in AppCompatActivity and final method cannot override. so I'm restricted to extends FragmentActivity.

Here is my code:

public class MainActivity extends FragmentActivity
{
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) 
    {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar)findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
        setSupportActionBar(toolbar);   -> error is here
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) 
    {
       // Inflate the menu
       getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_main, menu);
       return true;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onMenuItemSelected(int featureId, MenuItem item) {
        switch(item.getItemId()){
            case R.id.action_search:
                onSearchRequested();
                break;
        }
        return super.onMenuItemSelected(featureId, item);
    }

I saw many answers related to that question but everyone says extends AppCompatActivity instead of FragmentActivity but I want to set toolbar as well as override onMenuItemSelected(int featureId, MenuItem item) method.

what should I do, please help.

Answer 1

This thing is good when you are using NavigationDrawer use this:-

 toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
        setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
        getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);

then set Toolbar Title according to different fragment with different Titles in onNavigationItemSelected :-

@Override
    public boolean onNavigationItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
        // Handle navigation view item clicks here.

        sfm = getSupportFragmentManager();
        Fragment fragment = new Fragment();
        int id = item.getItemId();

        if (id == R.id.nav_id) {
            fragment = new YourFragment();
            toolbar.setTitle("SET TOOLBAR NAME");
        }else if (id == R.id.nav_id2) {
            fragment = new YourFragment();
            toolbar.setTitle("SET TOOLBAR NAME");
        } 

For single fragment, first customize your style.xml like this :-

<style name="YourStyleName" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
// ToDo as you want to do or as per your requirement

</style>

then apply into your custom toolbar:-

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
    android:id="@+id/toolbar"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
    android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
    app:popupTheme="@style/YourStyleName" >

  // ...........


</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>

Answer 2

You can also create your own toolbar:

First set up the main theme to extend Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar

<style name="style_1" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
    <!-- Customize your theme here. -->

</style>

Remember to apply the theme:

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    this.setTheme(R.style.style_1);
    // ...
}

then in your Activity's xml you can set your own custom toolbar:

<include layout="@layout/my_toolbar"/>

where @layout/my_toolbar may look like this:

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar 
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="@dimen/toolbar_height"
    app:contentInsetStart="0dp"
    app:layout_collapseParallaxMultiplier="1.0">

    <!-- insert your views here -->
</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>