Android toolbar center title and custom font

Asked 23/10, 2014 at 17:6 Answered 25/4, 2023 at 16:36

Solved android android-layout android-toolbar android-theme android-styles

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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.

Catholicize answered 23/10, 2014 at 17:6 Comment(1)

MaterialToolbar supports centering toolbar and it supports changing font too, see: material.io/components/app-bars-top/… – Demantoid 3/11, 2021 at 23:30

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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="?android: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);

Masefield answered 24/10, 2014 at 13:22 Comment(21)

suggest use android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_gravity="center" instead. – Stepper 6/11, 2014 at 2:18

Sometimes android:layout_gravity="top" works better for me to align a title TextView with Toolbar's <- arrow. – Trant 9/2, 2015 at 18:29

This method did not work for me. The title is already set to be the app name. – Seismoscope 26/2, 2015 at 4:46

You can clear the title text either programmatically with toolbarTop.setTitle(null) or you can remove the label from your manifest – Masefield 26/2, 2015 at 14:26

This also didn't work for me..it appears the name of the app and I have removed the label of the activity in manifest – Ageratum 6/3, 2015 at 13:40

If anyone else can't remove the default app name title, do this: 1. Call setSupportActionBar(yourToolbar) 2. Call getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false); – Titration 17/3, 2015 at 13:39

To keep using default styles for the customised TextView, try something like style="@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Widget.ActionBar.Title" (see this answer). – Keyboard 25/3, 2015 at 12:39

you answer is so great, BUT, android:paddingTop="@dimen/tool_bar_top_padding" never center text, because point of center of row, It is displaced. – Impressment 27/7, 2015 at 10:29

Using textview inside toolbar causing problem with search widget in toolbar. If i use search widget in toolbar, on click of search icon it increase height of toolbar to nearby half of screen height but as i remove that textview from toolbar it start working properly. Any idea? – Irremissible 9/12, 2015 at 5:59

@Masefield I'm not able to apply this for CollapsingToobarLayout. Any suggestions??? – Fossick 11/2, 2016 at 8:51

None of this worked for me. Possibly because my toolbar includes a menu, which causes Android to ditch the TextView layout for the title. – Antitank 12/5, 2016 at 14:17

You may also remove the default app name title by using an empty android:label in the AndroidManifest declaration. – Halogenate 20/7, 2016 at 19:5

adding android:paddingRight="?attr/actionBarSize" can help to center the text in the middle of your screen in the case you have a button (home, navigation drawer, etc) – Nonperishable 16/11, 2016 at 16:1

Downvoted this a year ago, because using styles is cleaner. But if you need a custom font, this is the best way. Just did the same thing. Though, you'll need a bit more configuration to make sure your activity title is set on the correct view. – Chromite 30/11, 2016 at 15:19

What will be happened when there is Hamburger icon on Toolbar? It will be not in center of complete toolbar width, it will be in center of ToolbarWidth - HamburgerIconWidth. – Shinn 2/12, 2016 at 12:37

Only way to get a custom font as far as I was able to try. – Celloidin 14/2, 2017 at 16:14

This answer is not a good idea because you can't use it in a scrolling activity when you scroll down the custom Textview will hide and original title is shown! you can test it ! is answer is very confusing . – Expletive 5/3, 2017 at 4:43

for me, layout_gravity doesn't work in toolbar. it doesn't show up in auto-complete, and when I manually type it in, it does nothing. – Clovis 24/3, 2017 at 18:38

@Shinn try to move TextView into a FrameLayout wrap in toolbar – Swale 31/8, 2018 at 4:19

I had to use androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar to be able to put a Textview inside the toolbar – Abrade 4/1, 2019 at 0:56

I get a warning when going with this approach requestLayout() improperly called by com.google.android.material.textview...during layout: running second layout pass – Raseta 27/5, 2020 at 0:12

This's just to help to join all pieces using @MrEngineer13 answer with @Jonik and @Rick Sanchez comments with the right order to help to achieve title centered easly!!

The layout with TextAppearance.AppCompat.Widget.ActionBar.Title :

    <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/AppTheme.PopupOverlay">

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/toolbar_title"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"                      
            style="@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Widget.ActionBar.Title"
            android:layout_gravity="center" />

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

The way to achieve with the right order:

    Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
    TextView mTitle = (TextView) toolbar.findViewById(R.id.toolbar_title);

    setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
    mTitle.setText(toolbar.getTitle());

    getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);

Please don't forget to upvote @MrEngineer13 answer !!!

Here is a sample project ToolbarCenterTitleSample

Hope to help somebody else ;)

Wellthoughtof answered 4/7, 2016 at 0:4 Comment(3)

if I set setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true) and setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(true); to enalbe back arrow. Then title is not coming center. I have tried like setting actionBar.setTitle(""); and setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false). But still not able to solve the issue – Milkwort 18/11, 2016 at 6:23

Are you tested it for a Scrolling Activity ? – Expletive 5/3, 2017 at 5:27

it's true that with the back arrow, the title is not centered (it's off to the right by half the width of the back arrow). I suppose if I were really determined I'd programmatically add enough margin to the right of the textbox as necessary in order to center the text. – Subastral 3/4, 2018 at 20:58

The ToolBar title is stylable. Any customization you make has to be made in the theme. I'll give you an example.

Toolbar layout:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
    style="@style/ToolBarStyle.Event"
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/toolbar"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
    android:minHeight="@dimen/abc_action_bar_default_height_material" />

Styles:

<style name="ToolBarStyle" parent="ToolBarStyle.Base"/>

<style name="ToolBarStyle.Base" parent="">
    <item name="popupTheme">@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light</item>
    <item name="theme">@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar</item>
</style>

<style name="ToolBarStyle.Event" parent="ToolBarStyle">
    <item name="titleTextAppearance">@style/TextAppearance.Widget.Event.Toolbar.Title</item>
</style>

<style name="TextAppearance.Widget.Event.Toolbar.Title" parent="TextAppearance.Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar.Title">
    <!--Any text styling can be done here-->
    <item name="android:textStyle">normal</item>
    <item name="android:textSize">@dimen/event_title_text_size</item>
</style>

Hague answered 17/2, 2015 at 7:59 Comment(9)

This is the correct way. Adding another TextView is a bit hacky, but the reflection answer is just plain evil. – Chromite 24/7, 2015 at 10:27

Clean, but you can't set a custom font from style. Sadly. – Tahitian 7/8, 2015 at 21:26

Neither can you change the alignment of the title. – Tynes 10/8, 2015 at 7:56

@Tynes I suppose that's because google wants you to stick to the design guidelines. Personally, I hate it when some app tries to make the ToolBar/ActionBar fancy. – Hague 10/8, 2015 at 11:53

@user1560102 there's nothing hacky about adding a TextView to the Toolbar. That's what it was designed for. – Minnich 6/11, 2015 at 3:6

This does not center the text. – Nigelniger 20/3, 2016 at 4:3

@niqueco: you can change the font using <item name="android:fontFamily">@font/your_font_here</item> – Allisonallissa 23/1, 2018 at 10:35

I followed your style code, the font has worked but I did not find a way to align text to the center. I tried this: <item name="android:textAlignment">center</item> <item name="android:layout_centerHorizontal">true</item> <item name="android:gravity">center</item> – Gesualdo 24/7, 2019 at 9:45

could not center the text, using styles.xml . I don't think it is possible to change the text alignment using styles. – Photocopy 6/11, 2019 at 11:52

we don't have direct access to the ToolBar title TextView so we use reflection to access it.

  private TextView getActionBarTextView() {
    TextView titleTextView = null;

    try {
        Field f = mToolBar.getClass().getDeclaredField("mTitleTextView");
        f.setAccessible(true);
        titleTextView = (TextView) f.get(mToolBar);
    } catch (NoSuchFieldException e) {
    } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
    }
    return titleTextView;
}

Russ answered 12/11, 2014 at 13:26 Comment(9)

Is this only when using a custom toolbar instead of the provided one? Otherwise how do you get access to the Toolbar object (mToolbar here)? – Walkyrie 23/12, 2014 at 19:12

This is shame, that in the material design guides the title has padding, but it doesn't by default and we even don't have access to the mTitleView. Thank for your answer. – Shawnee 6/2, 2015 at 14:16

Worked nicely for the Title. But when tried to obtain the mSubtitleTextView like this, it resulted in an exception. Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'void android.widget.TextView.setTypeface(android.graphics.Typeface)' on a null object reference – Cloven 16/2, 2015 at 12:34

for the subtitle you should use "mSubtitleText", not "mSubtitleTextView" – Russ 19/3, 2015 at 0:32

if you want use a getActionBarTextView().setGravity(Gravity.CENTER) this method or into method textview , java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'void android.widget.TextView.setGravity(int)' on a null object reference – Impressment 27/7, 2015 at 10:42

Note: You can only access the "mTitleTextView" field, after you set the toolbar title! The field is lazy initialized by its first use. – Jeconiah 10/8, 2015 at 7:27

What if you obfuscate your code with ProGuard and mTitleTextView becomes abcde12345? – Guerrilla 27/10, 2016 at 5:48

@Guerrilla getDeclaredField will throw NoSuchFieldException in that case, resulting in the code not working. – Opus 19/12, 2016 at 9:51

@Guerrilla place mTitleTextView in strings.xml and use it in code. – Sassanid 23/3, 2018 at 13:26

MaterialToolbar from Material Components 1.4.0-alpha02 now has the ability to center the toolbar's title by setting the titleCentered attribute to true:

<com.google.android.material.appbar.AppBarLayout
    android:id="@+id/appBarLayout"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content">

    <com.google.android.material.appbar.MaterialToolbar
        android:id="@+id/topAppBar"
        style="@style/Widget.MaterialComponents.Toolbar.Primary"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
        app:titleCentered="true" />

</com.google.android.material.appbar.AppBarLayout>

Supercharge answered 9/4, 2021 at 9:41 Comment(3)

Got error attribute titleCentered not found – Corpora 17/3, 2022 at 0:55

Seems to be no longer available (at least in Material Components 1.8.0). *EDIT:*Ensure you are using com.google.android.material.appbar.MaterialToolbar and NOT androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar – Sealey 14/3, 2023 at 9:53

@Corpora use com.google.android.material.appbar.MaterialToolbar – Sealey 14/3, 2023 at 9:57

Define the following class:

public class CenteredToolbar extends Toolbar {

    private TextView centeredTitleTextView;

    public CenteredToolbar(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    public CenteredToolbar(Context context, @Nullable AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    public CenteredToolbar(Context context, @Nullable AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr);
    }

    @Override
    public void setTitle(@StringRes int resId) {
        String s = getResources().getString(resId);
        setTitle(s);
    }

    @Override
    public void setTitle(CharSequence title) {
        getCenteredTitleTextView().setText(title);
    }

    @Override
    public CharSequence getTitle() {
        return getCenteredTitleTextView().getText().toString();
    }

    public void setTypeface(Typeface font) {
        getCenteredTitleTextView().setTypeface(font);
    }

    private TextView getCenteredTitleTextView() {
        if (centeredTitleTextView == null) {
            centeredTitleTextView = new TextView(getContext());
            centeredTitleTextView.setTypeface(...);
            centeredTitleTextView.setSingleLine();
            centeredTitleTextView.setEllipsize(TextUtils.TruncateAt.END);
            centeredTitleTextView.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER);
            centeredTitleTextView.setTextAppearance(getContext(), R.style.TextAppearance_AppCompat_Widget_ActionBar_Title);

            Toolbar.LayoutParams lp = new Toolbar.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT);
            lp.gravity = Gravity.CENTER;
            centeredTitleTextView.setLayoutParams(lp);

            addView(centeredTitleTextView);
        }
        return centeredTitleTextView;
    }
}

...and then just use it instead of regular Toolbar like this:

<RelativeLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:background="@color/colorAccent">

        <your.packagename.here.CenteredToolbar
            android:id="@+id/toolbar"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
            android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
            android:theme="?attr/actionBarTheme"
            app:title="@string/reset_password_page_title"/>

        <!-- Other views -->

</RelativeLayout>

You still need these 2 lines of code in your Activity (as with standard Toolbar):

Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewByid(R.id.toolbar); // note that your activity doesn't need to know that it is actually a custom Toolbar
setSupportActionBar(binding.toolbar);

That's it! You don't need to hide the standard left-aligned title, don't need to duplicate the same XML code over and over, etc., just use CenteredToolbar like if it was default Toolbar. You can also set your custom font programatically since you now have direct access to the TextView. Hope this helps.

Bluepoint answered 4/9, 2017 at 14:58 Comment(3)

I know this is quite old but... how can I change text color? I've tried in XML with app:titleTextColor and in code with centeredTitleTextView.setColor. Any ideas, @fraggjkee? – Jowett 17/5, 2018 at 16:40

centeredTitleTextView.setTextColor(...) should work – Bluepoint 18/5, 2018 at 12:5

Shouldn't it be LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT)? – Moderato 10/3, 2019 at 15:22

Here is title text dependant approach to find TextView instance from Toolbar.

  public static TextView getToolbarTitleView(ActionBarActivity activity, Toolbar toolbar){
    ActionBar actionBar = activity.getSupportActionBar();
    CharSequence actionbarTitle = null;
    if(actionBar != null)
        actionbarTitle = actionBar.getTitle();
    actionbarTitle = TextUtils.isEmpty(actionbarTitle) ? toolbar.getTitle() : actionbarTitle;
    if(TextUtils.isEmpty(actionbarTitle)) return null;
    // can't find if title not set
    for(int i= 0; i < toolbar.getChildCount(); i++){
        View v = toolbar.getChildAt(i);
        if(v != null && v instanceof TextView){
            TextView t = (TextView) v;
            CharSequence title = t.getText();
            if(!TextUtils.isEmpty(title) && actionbarTitle.equals(title) && t.getId() == View.NO_ID){
                //Toolbar does not assign id to views with layout params SYSTEM, hence getId() == View.NO_ID
                //in same manner subtitle TextView can be obtained.
                return t;
            }
        }
    }
    return null;
}

Greisen answered 23/1, 2015 at 6:52 Comment(0)

I use this solution:

static void centerToolbarTitle(@NonNull final Toolbar toolbar) {
    final CharSequence title = toolbar.getTitle();
    final ArrayList<View> outViews = new ArrayList<>(1);
    toolbar.findViewsWithText(outViews, title, View.FIND_VIEWS_WITH_TEXT);
    if (!outViews.isEmpty()) {
        final TextView titleView = (TextView) outViews.get(0);
        titleView.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER);
        final Toolbar.LayoutParams layoutParams = (Toolbar.LayoutParams) titleView.getLayoutParams();
        layoutParams.width = ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT;
        toolbar.requestLayout();
        //also you can use titleView for changing font: titleView.setTypeface(Typeface);
    }
}

Squawk answered 5/1, 2016 at 14:15 Comment(2)

Works very well, but for some reason it doesn't center properly with toolbars that don't have an item button. – Gd 28/8, 2017 at 16:27

An addition: if you have a navdrawer or back icon on toolbar, title not stay exactly center. I add an empty setting menu icon for this situation. My empty menu item is: <item android:id="@+id/empty" android:orderInCategory="100" android:icon="@android:color/transparent" app:showAsAction="always" tools:ignore="MenuTitle" /> – Streamway 7/9, 2018 at 7:13

No one has mentioned this, but there are some attributes for Toolbar:

app:titleTextColor for setting the title text color

app:titleTextAppearance for setting the title text appearance

app:titleMargin for setting the margin

And there are other specific-side margins such as marginStart, etc.

Elna answered 1/12, 2016 at 17:3 Comment(3)

Perfect Solution.. if you are aware of FontOverride, just create style in styles.xml

<style name="customFontTextAppearanceStyle">         <item name="android:textSize">18sp</item>         <item name="android:typeface">monospace</item>

and apply it in toolbar app:titleTextAppearance="@styles/customFontTextAppearanceStyle" – Kendry 3/3, 2017 at 12:20

I used this method but nothing happened to my toolbar ! i created a new '<style>' and set it to app:titleTextAppearanc="style name" on the android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar TAG – Expletive 5/3, 2017 at 5:33

what about the centering thing? – Calcific 4/4, 2022 at 17:13

Without toolbar TextView we can customize font by using below code

getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);
or
getActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);

public void updateActionbar(String title){
    SpannableString spannableString = new SpannableString(title);
    spannableString.setSpan(new TypefaceSpanString(this,  "futurastdmedium.ttf"),
            0, spannableString.length(),
            Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
    mToolbar.setTitle(spannableString);
}

Clavius answered 5/9, 2015 at 9:32 Comment(1)

If you just need to change font, this seems like the most clean solution. NOTE: TypefaceSpanString is just this: stackoverflow.com/a/17961854 – Paule 26/12, 2016 at 15:39

    public class TestActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
    private Toolbar toolbar;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        super.setContentView(R.layout.activity_test);

        toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.tool_bar); // Attaching the layout to the toolbar object
        setSupportActionBar(toolbar);

        customizeToolbar(toolbar);
    }

    public void customizeToolbar(Toolbar toolbar){
        // Save current title and subtitle
        final CharSequence originalTitle = toolbar.getTitle();
        final CharSequence originalSubtitle = toolbar.getSubtitle();

        // Temporarily modify title and subtitle to help detecting each
        toolbar.setTitle("title");
        toolbar.setSubtitle("subtitle");

        for(int i = 0; i < toolbar.getChildCount(); i++){
            View view = toolbar.getChildAt(i);

            if(view instanceof TextView){
                TextView textView = (TextView) view;


                if(textView.getText().equals("title")){
                    // Customize title's TextView
                    Toolbar.LayoutParams params = new Toolbar.LayoutParams(Toolbar.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, Toolbar.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT);
                    params.gravity = Gravity.CENTER_HORIZONTAL;
                    textView.setLayoutParams(params);

                    // Apply custom font using the Calligraphy library
                    Typeface typeface = TypefaceUtils.load(getAssets(), "fonts/myfont-1.otf");
                    textView.setTypeface(typeface);

                } else if(textView.getText().equals("subtitle")){
                    // Customize subtitle's TextView
                    Toolbar.LayoutParams params = new Toolbar.LayoutParams(Toolbar.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, Toolbar.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT);
                    params.gravity = Gravity.CENTER_HORIZONTAL;
                    textView.setLayoutParams(params);

                    // Apply custom font using the Calligraphy library
                    Typeface typeface = TypefaceUtils.load(getAssets(), "fonts/myfont-2.otf");
                    textView.setTypeface(typeface);
                }
            }
        }

        // Restore title and subtitle
        toolbar.setTitle(originalTitle);
        toolbar.setSubtitle(originalSubtitle);
    }
}

Liking answered 1/3, 2016 at 12:38 Comment(1)

solution works great when you put out last two lines of code, it shouldn't be inside the for loop: // Restore title and subtitle toolbar.setTitle(originalTitle); toolbar.setSubtitle(originalSubtitle); – Gove 4/1, 2017 at 13:5

With the Material Components, starting from the version 1.4.x as described in the doc you can use the MaterialToolbar.

Just add the attribute app:titleCentered and/or app:subtitleCentered attributes to true on your MaterialToolbar.

Something like:

    <com.google.android.material.appbar.MaterialToolbar
        android:id="@+id/topAppBar"
        app:titleCentered="true"
        ... />

With Compose using the Material3 package you can simply use the CenterAlignedTopAppBar:

CenterAlignedTopAppBar(
    title = { Text("Centered TopAppBar") },
    navigationIcon = {
        IconButton(onClick = { /* doSomething() */ }) {
            Icon(
                imageVector = Icons.Filled.Menu,
                contentDescription = "Localized description"
            )
        }
    }
)

If you are using Compose and the Material2 package, there isn't a builtin component but you can customize the layout of content inside the TopAppBar as described in this answer.

Simonton answered 13/7, 2022 at 9:0 Comment(0)

Layout:

<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="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Toolbar Title"
        android:layout_gravity="center"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:id="@+id/toolbar_title" />
</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>

Code:

    Toolbar mToolbar = parent.findViewById(R.id.toolbar_top);
    TextView mToolbarCustomTitle = parent.findViewById(R.id.toolbar_title);

    //setup width of custom title to match in parent toolbar
    mToolbar.postDelayed(new Runnable()
    {
        @Override
        public void run ()
        {
            int maxWidth = mToolbar.getWidth();
            int titleWidth = mToolbarCustomTitle.getWidth();
            int iconWidth = maxWidth - titleWidth;

            if (iconWidth > 0)
            {
                //icons (drawer, menu) are on left and right side
                int width = maxWidth - iconWidth * 2;
                mToolbarCustomTitle.setMinimumWidth(width);
                mToolbarCustomTitle.getLayoutParams().width = width;
            }
        }
    }, 0);

Cabe answered 6/5, 2015 at 8:29 Comment(0)

A very quick and easy way to set a custom font is to use a custom titleTextAppearance with a fontFamily:

Add to styles.xml:

<style name="ToolbarTitle" parent="TextAppearance.Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar.Title">
    <item name="android:textSize">16sp</item>
    <item name="android:textColor">#FF202230</item>
    <item name="android:fontFamily">@font/varela_round_regular</item>
</style>

In your res folder create a font folder (Ex: varela_round_regular.ttf)

Read the official guide to find out more https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/look-and-feel/fonts-in-xml.html

Microscopy answered 22/1, 2018 at 14:6 Comment(0)

Use com.google.android.material.appbar.MaterialToolbar and app:titleCentered="true" tag

<com.google.android.material.appbar.MaterialToolbar
    android:id="@+id/toolbar"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
    app:titleCentered="true" />

Heptahedron answered 29/12, 2021 at 11:11 Comment(0)

Solution that I used for this problem:

 public static void applyFontForToolbarTitle(Activity a){
        Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) a.findViewById(R.id.app_bar);
        for(int i = 0; i < toolbar.getChildCount(); i++){
            View view = toolbar.getChildAt(i);
            if(view instanceof TextView){
                TextView tv = (TextView) view;
                if(tv.getText().equals(a.getTitle())){
                    tv.setTypeface(getRuneTypefaceBold(a));
                    break;
                }
            }
        }
    }

For center gravity I think it would be necessary to change layout params to match_parent horizontally and then:

tv.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER);

Haland answered 31/10, 2015 at 18:7 Comment(0)

Now using Material Design 3 we can align the title in the center without doing extra work or without adding a text view in the toolbar

Added below dependencies in build.gradle file

implementation 'com.google.android.material:material:1.6.1'

To align the title in the center We need to use the below properly

 app:titleCentered="true"

To align subtitles in the center we need to use the below property

app:subtitleCentered="true"

Sample Code

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<androidx.coordinatorlayout.widget.CoordinatorLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

  <com.google.android.material.appbar.AppBarLayout
      android:layout_width="match_parent"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content">

    <com.google.android.material.appbar.MaterialToolbar
        android:id="@+id/topAppBar"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
        app:title="AskNilesh"
        app:subtitle="Nilesh"
        app:subtitleCentered="true"
        app:menu="@menu/top_app_bar"
        app:titleCentered="true"
        app:navigationIcon="@drawable/ic_android_black_24dp" />

  </com.google.android.material.appbar.AppBarLayout>

  <androidx.core.widget.NestedScrollView
      android:layout_width="match_parent"
      android:layout_height="match_parent"
      app:layout_behavior="@string/appbar_scrolling_view_behavior">


  </androidx.core.widget.NestedScrollView>

</androidx.coordinatorlayout.widget.CoordinatorLayout>

OUTPUT

Satire answered 13/7, 2022 at 6:34 Comment(0)

I don't know if anything changed in the appcompat library but it's fairly trivial, no need for reflection.

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

// loop through all toolbar children right after setting support 
// action bar because the text view has no id assigned

// also make sure that the activity has some title here
// because calling setText() with an empty string actually
// removes the text view from the toolbar

TextView toolbarTitle = null;
for (int i = 0; i < toolbar.getChildCount(); ++i) {
    View child = toolbar.getChildAt(i);

    // assuming that the title is the first instance of TextView
    // you can also check if the title string matches
    if (child instanceof TextView) {
        toolbarTitle = (TextView)child;
        break;
    }
}

Dormant answered 5/10, 2015 at 11:41 Comment(0)

I solved this solution , And this is a following codes:

<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/AppTheme.PopupOverlay" >

        <TextView
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="Order History"
            android:layout_gravity="center"
            android:id="@+id/toolbar_title"
            android:textSize="17sp"
            android:textStyle="bold"
            android:textColor="@color/colorWhite"
            />

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

And you can change title/label , in Activity, write a below codes:

Toolbar toolbarTop = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar_top);

TextView mTitle = (TextView) toolbarTop.findViewById(R.id.toolbar_title); mTitle.setText("@string/....");

Skipper answered 7/6, 2016 at 11:32 Comment(0)

You can use like the following

 <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
    android:id="@+id/top_actionbar"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:theme="@style/AppThemeToolbar">

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/pageTitle"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="center"
        />
</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>

Antiknock answered 21/10, 2016 at 6:25 Comment(1)

Update from @MrEngineer13's answer: to align title center in any cases, including Hamburger icon, option menus, you can add a FrameLayout in toolbar like this:

   <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" >

         <FrameLayout android:layout_width="match_parent"
                    android:layout_height="match_parent">

              <TextView
               android:layout_width="wrap_content"
               android:layout_height="wrap_content"
               android:text="Toolbar Title"
               android:layout_gravity="center"
               style="@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Widget.ActionBar.Title"
               android:id="@+id/toolbar_title" />

        </FrameLayout>

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

Swale answered 31/8, 2018 at 4:17 Comment(0)

Even though adding a text view to the toolbar can solve the problem of the restriction of title styling, there is an issue with it. Since we are not adding it to a layout, we do not have too much control over its width. We can either use wrap_content or match_parent.

Now consider a scenario where we have a searchView as a button on the right edge of the toolbar. If the title contents are more, it will go on top of the button obscuring it. There is no way of controlling this short of setting a width to the label and is something you don't want to do if you want to have a responsive design.

So, here is a solution that worked for me which is slightly different from adding a textview to the toolbar. Instead of that, add the toolbar and text view to a relative layout and ensure that the text view is on top of the toolbar. Then we can use appropriate margins and make sure the text view shows up where we want it to show up.

Make sure you set the toolbar to not show the title.

Here is the XML for this solution:

<RelativeLayout
                    android:orientation="horizontal"
                    android:layout_width="match_parent"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:background="?attr/colorPrimary">

                    <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
                        android:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark"
                        android:id="@+id/activity_toolbar"
                        android:layout_width="match_parent"
                        android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
                        android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
                        android:titleTextAppearance="@style/AppTheme.TitleTextView"
                        android:layout_marginRight="40dp"
                        android:layoutMode="clipBounds">

                        <android.support.v7.widget.SearchView
                            android:id="@+id/search_view"
                            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                            android:layout_gravity="right"
                            android:layout_centerVertical="true"
                            android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
                            android:foregroundTint="@color/white" />
                        </android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>

                    <TextView
                        android:id="@+id/toolbar_title"
                        android:layout_width="match_parent"
                        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                        android:layout_marginRight="90dp"
                        android:text="@string/app_name"
                        android:textSize="@dimen/title_text_size"
                        android:textColor="@color/white"
                        android:lines="1"
                        android:layout_marginLeft="72dp"
                        android:layout_centerVertical="true" />

                </RelativeLayout>

Solves the issue @ankur-chaudhary mentioned above.

Hesione answered 26/2, 2016 at 6:5 Comment(0)

Since android.support.v7.appcompat 24.2 Toolbar has method setTitleTextAppearance and you can set its font without external textview.

create new style in styles.xml

<style name="RobotoBoldTextAppearance">
        <item name="android:fontFamily">@font/roboto_condensed_bold</item>
</style>

and use it

mToolbar.setTitleTextAppearance(this, R.style.RobotoBoldTextAppearance);

Goosander answered 26/8, 2017 at 12:58 Comment(0)

I spent several days searching for a universal solution. My toolbar working with android menu and nav icon.

At first, you need create custom toolbar class. This class must have calculate title centered positions (paddings):

    class CenteredToolbar @JvmOverloads constructor(context: Context, attrs: AttributeSet? = null, defStyleAttr: Int = 0)
    : Toolbar(context, attrs, defStyleAttr) {

    init {
        addOnLayoutChangeListener(object : View.OnLayoutChangeListener {
            override fun onLayoutChange(v: View?, left: Int, top: Int, right: Int, bottom: Int, oldLeft: Int, oldTop: Int, oldRight: Int, oldBottom: Int) {
                val titleTextView = findViewById<TextView>(R.id.centerTitle)

                val x = titleTextView.x.toInt()
                val x2 = x + titleTextView.width

                val fullWidth = width
                val fullCenter = fullWidth / 2

                val offsetLeft = Math.abs(fullCenter - x)
                val offsetRight = Math.abs(x2 - fullCenter)
                val differOffset = Math.abs(offsetLeft - offsetRight)

                if (offsetLeft > offsetRight) {
                    titleTextView.setPadding(differOffset, 0, 0, 0)
                } else if (offsetRight > offsetLeft) {
                    titleTextView.setPadding(0, 0, differOffset, 0)
                }

                removeOnLayoutChangeListener(this)
            }
        })
    }

    override fun setTitle(resId: Int) = getTitleView().setText(resId)

    override fun setTitle(title: CharSequence?) = getTitleView().setText(title)

    fun getTitleView(): TextView = findViewById(R.id.centerTitle)

}

Secondly, you need create layout toolbar:

<CenteredToolbar xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:id="@+id/toolbar">

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/centerTitle"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>

</CenteredToolbar>

That's all

Dubuffet answered 12/8, 2018 at 10:40 Comment(0)

To use a custom title in your Toolbar you can add a custom title like :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:id="@+id/toolbar"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
    android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
    android:elevation="5dp"
    app:contentInsetLeft="0dp"
    app:contentInsetStart="0dp"
    app:popupTheme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light"
    app:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark">


        <LinearLayout
            android:id="@+id/lnrTitle"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:gravity="center_horizontal"
            android:orientation="vertical">

            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/txvHeader"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal|center"
                android:gravity="center"
                android:ellipsize="end"
                android:maxLines="1"
                android:text="Header"
                android:textColor="@color/white"
                android:textSize="18sp" />


        </LinearLayout>


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

Java Code:

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

setSupportActionBar(toolbar);

if (getSupportActionBar() == null)
    return;

getSupportActionBar().setTitle("Title");

getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);

Shawana answered 22/12, 2018 at 13:13 Comment(1)

the title bar has a spacing on left & right... what is that effect appeared? – Calcific 4/4, 2022 at 17:22

Try taking Toolbar and tittle in a separate view. Take a view on right end and given them weight equal to the toolbar weight. In this way your tittle will come in center.

<android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
    android:id="@+id/app_bar"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme.AppBarOverlay"
    android:background="@color/white_color">
  <LinearLayout
   android:id="@+id/toolbar_layout"
   android:layout_width="match_parent"
   android:layout_height="wrap_content"
   android:background="@color/white_color">

    <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
        android:id="@+id/toolbar"
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
        android:background="@color/white_color"
        app:popupTheme="@style/AppTheme.PopupOverlay"
        app:contentInsetLeft="0dp"
        app:contentInsetStart="0dp"
        android:layout_weight="0.2"

        app:contentInsetStartWithNavigation="0dp"
        app:navigationIcon="@color/greyTextColor">
       </android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>


        <com.an.customfontview.CustomTextView
            android:id="@+id/headingText"
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="0.6"
            android:gravity="center"
            android:text="Heading"
            android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
            android:layout_centerVertical="true"
            android:textColor="@color/colorPrimary"
            android:textSize="@dimen/keyboard_number"
            android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal|center_vertical"
            app:textFontPath="fonts/regular.ttf" />
            <ImageView
                android:id="@+id/search_icon"
                android:layout_width="0dp"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_alignParentEnd="true"
                android:layout_centerVertical="true"
                android:visibility="visible"
                android:layout_weight="0.2"
                android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal|center_vertical"
                android:src="@drawable/portfolio_icon"/>
        </LinearLayout>

       </android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>

Alliber answered 15/4, 2019 at 4:55 Comment(0)

You can insert this code in your xml file

 <androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:background="@color/colorPrimaryDark"
    android:elevation="4dp"
    android:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.ActionBar">

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Toolbar Title"
        android:textColor="#000000"
        android:textSize="20dp"
        android:id="@+id/toolbar_title" />

</androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar>

Philippine answered 17/9, 2019 at 11:19 Comment(1)

Hi Uzair. Which xml file? I am using an Android Studio 3.6.3 Project created from an Empty Activity template. Thanks. – Airhead 6/5, 2020 at 20:24

private void makeTitleCenter(String title, Toolbar toolbar) {
    if (title != null && !TextUtils.isEmpty(title.trim())) {
        final String tag = " ";
        if (getSupportActionBar() != null) {
            getSupportActionBar().setTitle(tag);
        }
        TextView titleTv = null;
        View leftBtn = null;
        for (int i = 0; i < toolbar.getChildCount(); i++) {
            View view = toolbar.getChildAt(i);
            CharSequence text = null;
            if (view instanceof TextView && (text = ((TextView) view).getText()) != null && text.equals(tag)) {
                titleTv = (TextView) view;
            } else if (view instanceof ImageButton) {
                leftBtn = view;
            }
        }
        if (titleTv != null) {
            final TextView fTitleTv = titleTv;
            final View fLeftBtn = leftBtn;
            fTitleTv.getViewTreeObserver().addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new ViewTreeObserver.OnGlobalLayoutListener() {
                @Override
                public void onGlobalLayout() {
                    fTitleTv.getViewTreeObserver().removeOnGlobalLayoutListener(this);
                    int leftWidgetWidth = fLeftBtn != null ? fLeftBtn.getWidth() : 0;
                    fTitleTv.setPadding(DimenUtil.getResources().getDisplayMetrics().widthPixels / 2 - leftWidgetWidth - fTitleTv.getWidth() / 2, 0, 0, 0);
                    fTitleTv.requestLayout();
                }
            });
        }
    }
}

Grannias answered 14/4, 2016 at 7:41 Comment(0)

for custom font in toolbar you can override textView font in style and then every textView in your app also toolbar title font changed automatically i tested it in android studio 3.1.3

in style do it:

<style name="defaultTextViewStyle" parent="android:Widget.TextView">
        <item name="android:fontFamily">@font/your_custom_font</item>
</style>

and then in your theme use this:

<item name="android:textViewStyle">@style/defaultTextViewStyle</item>

Feuilleton answered 6/10, 2018 at 17:35 Comment(0)

I found another way to add custom toolbar without any adicional Java/Kotlin code.

First: create a XML with your custom toolbar layout with AppBarLayout as the parent:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout                     
    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="wrap_content"
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme.AppBarOverlay">

<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/AppTheme.PopupOverlay">

    <ImageView
        android:layout_width="80dp"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="right"
        android:layout_marginEnd="@dimen/magin_default"
        android:src="@drawable/logo" />

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

Second: Include the toolbar in your layout:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>                
<android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout 
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:background="@color/blue"
    tools:context=".app.MainAcitivity"
    tools:layout_editor_absoluteY="81dp">

    <include
        layout="@layout/toolbar_inicio"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />

    <!-- Put your layout here -->

</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>

Hairstreak answered 9/11, 2018 at 11:46 Comment(0)

As I see it you have two options:

1) Edit the toolbar XML. When your Toolbar is added in the XML it usually looks like that:

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
    android:id="@+id/toolbar"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
    android:elevation="4dp"
    app:popupTheme="@style/AppTheme.PopupOverlay"/>

if you want to customize it just remove the '/' in the end and make it like that:

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
            android:id="@+id/toolbar"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
            android:elevation="4dp"
            app:popupTheme="@style/AppTheme.PopupOverlay">

            <android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="match_parent">

                <ImageView
                    android:id="@+id/toolbar_iv"
                    android:layout_width="30dp"
                    android:layout_height="30dp"
                    android:src="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
                    app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
                    app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
                    app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />

                <TextView
                    android:id="@+id/toolbar_tv"
                    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_height="match_parent"
                    android:layout_marginLeft="20dp"
                    android:gravity="center"
                    app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
                    app:layout_constraintLeft_toRightOf="@+id/toolbar_iv"
                    app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />

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

that way you can have a toolbar and customize the textview and the logo.

2) Programrticly change the native textview and icon:

Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
getSupportActionBar().setIcon(R.drawable.ic_question_mark);
getSupportActionBar().setTitle("Title");

make sure your toolbar is not null before you set anything in it.

Phantasy answered 25/12, 2018 at 14:22 Comment(0)

You can have a custom TextView in the toolbar like this:

<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="Title"
        android:layout_gravity="center"
        android:id="@+id/toolbar_title" />


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

So, this will center the text. If you want to add custom font to a normal Toolbar, make a <style>:

<style android:name="ToolbarFont">
    <item android:fontFamily = "@font/fontName" />
</style>

And add it to the toolbar:

toolbar.setTitleTextAppearance(this, R.style.ToolbarFont);

For the textview in the toolbar, you can define it with the fontFamily attribute:

<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="Title"
        android:layout_gravity="center"
        android:id="@+id/toolbar_title"
        android:fontFamily="@font/fontFamily" />


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

Brace answered 9/2, 2019 at 12:18 Comment(0)

I was facing the same issue, fixed by doing this in MainActivity

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

And In Fragment

@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
                         Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    if (view == null) {
        // Inflate the layout for this fragment
        view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_example, container, false);
        init();
    }
    getActivity().setTitle("Choose Fragment");
    return view;
}

@Override
public void onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu, MenuInflater inflater) {
    inflater.inflate(R.menu.example_menu, menu);
}

Uncoil answered 13/3, 2019 at 7:47 Comment(0)

Try

@Override
    public void onBackPressed() {
          if(getTitle().equals(getResources().getString(R.string.app_name))) {
            super.onBackPressed();}
          else {
//set visiblity
           }
}

Potboiler answered 11/3, 2016 at 7:25 Comment(0)

Setting android:gravity="center" worked for me

No styling nothing. Toolbar is basically a ViewGroup all you need to do is set gravity of elements in it.

        <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
            android:id="@+id/htab_toolbar"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
            android:layout_gravity="top"
            android:background="@color/partial_transparent"
            android:gravity="center"
            app:layout_collapseMode="pin"
            app:layout_scrollFlags="scroll|enterAlways"
            app:popupTheme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light" />

Protease answered 26/5, 2017 at 13:42 Comment(1)

Does not work with androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar – Bernie 26/10, 2018 at 19:16

this is what i did with one navigation icon and one Text view now you can make an extension to apply it where ever you need it. but you have to apply it on every activity

(toolbar[0] as AppCompatTextView).let {
            it.viewTreeObserver.addOnDrawListener {
                it.layoutParams = it.layoutParams.apply {
                    width = Toolbar.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT
                    (this as ViewGroup.MarginLayoutParams).apply {
                        marginEnd = toolbar[1].width
                    }
                }
                it.textAlignment = View.TEXT_ALIGNMENT_CENTER
            }

        }

Flashy answered 9/2, 2021 at 6:38 Comment(0)

I don't know if any one having this issue but using extra text view is bad because you have to manage title on your own and using reflection is worst because ids got change while adding progurad rules. The most simple and accurate answer is using material toolbar which has the property to center the title.

app:titleCentered

Diez answered 14/5, 2022 at 6:14 Comment(0)

just apply this theme :

     <style name="MyToolbarStyle" parent="Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar">
    <item name="android:gravity">center_vertical</item>
    <item name="navigationIconTint">@color/white</item>
    <item name="tint">@color/white</item>
    <item name="iconTint">@color/white</item>
</style>

Dixiedixieland answered 25/4, 2023 at 16:36 Comment(0)

-1

  @Composable
    fun topAppBar() {
        CenterAlignedTopAppBar(
            title = {
                Text(
                    "Top App Bar"
                )
            },
            navigationIcon = {
                IconButton(onClick = { /*TODO*/ }) {
                    Icon(
                        imageVector = Icons.Default.ArrowBack,
                        contentDescription = "Back"
                    )
                }
            },
            actions = {
                IconButton(onClick = { /*TODO*/ }) {
                    Icon(
                        imageVector = Icons.Default.MoreVert,
                        contentDescription = "More",
                    )
                }
            },
            colors = TopAppBarDefaults.smallTopAppBarColors(
                containerColor = MaterialTheme.colorScheme.secondaryContainer
            )
        )
    }
}

Impercipient answered 7/7, 2022 at 5:27 Comment(0)

-4

You have to just add the below line in your toolbar layout:

app:contentInsetStart="0dp"

Alliber answered 10/4, 2019 at 4:39 Comment(0)

-5

Typeface face= Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "font/font.ttf"); // your custom font
Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
toolbar.setTypeface(face);
setSupportActionBar(toolbar);

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