I'm trying to figure out the right way to use a custom font for the toolbar title, and center it in the toolbar (client requirement).
At the moment, i'm using the good old ActionBar, and I was setting the title to empty value, and using setCustomView
to put my custom font TextView and center it using ActionBar.LayoutParams.
Is there a better way to do that? Using the new Toolbar as my ActionBar.
To use a custom title in your Toolbar
all you need to do is remember is that Toolbar
is just a fancy ViewGroup so you can add a custom title like so:
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="@+id/toolbar_top"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:background="@color/action_bar_bkgnd"
app:theme="@style/ToolBarTheme" >
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Toolbar Title"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:id="@+id/toolbar_title" />
</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>
This means that you can style the TextView
however you would like because it's just a regular TextView
. So in your activity you can access the title like so:
Toolbar toolbarTop = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar_top);
TextView mTitle = (TextView) toolbarTop.findViewById(R.id.toolbar_title);