Display Back Arrow on Toolbar

Question

I'm migrating from ActionBar to Toolbar in my application. But I don't know how to display and set click event on Back Arrow on Toolbar like I did on Actionbar.

With ActionBar, I call mActionbar.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true). But there is no the similar method like this.

Has anyone ever faced this situation and somehow found a way to solve it?

Answer 1

If you are using an ActionBarActivity then you can tell Android to use the Toolbar as the ActionBar like so:

Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.my_awesome_toolbar);
setSupportActionBar(toolbar);

And then calls to

getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(true);

will work. You can also use that in Fragments that are attached to ActionBarActivities you can use it like this:

((ActionBarActivity) getActivity()).getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
((ActionBarActivity) getActivity()).getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(true);

If you are not using ActionBarActivities or if you want to get the back arrow on a Toolbar that's not set as your SupportActionBar then you can use the following:

mActionBar.setNavigationIcon(getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.ic_action_back));
mActionBar.setNavigationOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
   @Override
   public void onClick(View v) {
       //What to do on back clicked
   }
});

If you are using android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar, then you should add the following code to your AppCompatActivity:

@Override
public boolean onSupportNavigateUp() {
    onBackPressed();
    return true;
}