How to change Toolbar navigation icon and options menu margin

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timemanx picture timemanx · Nov 7, 2014 · Viewed 20.3k times · Source

Is there any way to change the left margin of the Navigation icon and the right margin of the Action items in Toolbar?

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timemanx picture timemanx · Nov 10, 2014

I went through the Toolbar source code to find a solution and it turned out to be pretty simple.

Toolbar uses two styles to style the toolbar and the navigation icon. Just had to override those styles with my own.

<style name="myToolbarNavigationButtonStyle" parent="@style/Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar.Button.Navigation">
    <item name="android:minWidth">0dp</item>
    <item name="android:padding">12dp</item>
    <item name="android:scaleType">centerInside</item>
</style>

<style name="myToolbarStyle" parent="@style/Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar">
    <item name="android:paddingRight">10dp</item>
</style>

<style name="AppTheme" parent="AppBaseTheme">
    <item name="toolbarStyle">@style/myToolbarStyle</item>
    <item name="toolbarNavigationButtonStyle">@style/myToolbarNavigationButtonStyle</item>
</style>

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