How do you add a clickable textview to an action bar in Android?

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I want to have a textview that says "Edit" aligned to the right of an action bar but don't know to implement it. Should it be in a menu resource? If so, I want to be able to customize the colour of it. Otherwise, should I put it within the toolbar xml itself?

mhashim6 · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-04 20:38:11Z

You should use a toolbar instead, it's a viewgroup like any other viewgroup, then you can put the TextView inside it, see this question for an example.

Kavach Chandra · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-04 20:41:12Z

You will have to write a custom implementation of action bar only. You can do something like this if you're not using toolbar.

try { getSupportActionBar().setDisplayOptions(ActionBar.DISPLAY_SHOW_CUSTOM); getSupportActionBar().setCustomView(R.layout.custom_toolbar); textView_actionBar = (TextView)findViewById(getResources().getIdentifier("action_bar_textView","id",getPackageName())); textView_actionBar.setText("Your_title"); } catch (NullPointerException e) { e.printStackTrace(); }

Define the textView's clicklistener as per need.

In custom_toolbar.xml just put an TextView and align it to right end. The layout background set as per your choice.

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