How to change home as up resource programmatically?

Question

I know how to change the homeAsUpIndicator in the styles xml file. The question is how to change it programmatically.

The reason I want to do it because in some views I support side navigation (sliding menu) - pressing the up/back title button, shows the side menu.

In other views I support the natural up/back botton.

Thus I would like to different indicator icons to indicate the two different logics - side navigation vs. up/back.

Please, lets not argue on the motivation of doing this. That's the given state. Thanks.

Although resource (upId) is found, and new ImageView defined, at Galaxy S3 device this hack not works. However, when i tested at Nexus 4, works fine. — seufagner, May 17 '13 at 19:29

score 21 · Accepted Answer · answered May 06 '13 at 17:45

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int upId = Resources.getSystem().getIdentifier("up", "id", "android");
if (upId > 0) {
    ImageView up = (ImageView) findViewById(upId);
    up.setImageResource(R.drawable.ic_drawer_indicator);
}

answered May 06 '13 at 17:45

Matthias Robbers

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Works, but feels like a hack. Is this documented? Can the `up` name change in the future? – AlikElzin-kilaka May 07 '13 at 10:18
I would say it is a hack. However, it is the only way to get to the view. It could be changed in the future but I can't imagine a reason for this to happen. – Matthias Robbers May 07 '13 at 20:09
As seufagner said, I validated that this does **not** work on the Samasung Galaxy S3. – AlikElzin-kilaka May 19 '13 at 11:40
Samsung got their firmwares tweaked from android. it actually refers to android.R.id – Lalith B Sep 02 '13 at 04:59
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i check it. it does not working on android 4.1.1 and older (od 4.2.2+ works fine) – Kenumir Dec 11 '13 at 09:34
It works with Nexus 4.4, Samsung 4.1 device, but not with Samsung 2.3, Nexus 7 4.3 device!!! Any idea? Any work around way? – MSIslam Jan 23 '14 at 19:18
@matthias Its working like charm in higher version. But how we can make this work for lower version as well. ? – AndroidHacker Feb 03 '14 at 06:12

score 16 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 23 '13 at 09:29

The solution by @matthias doesn't work on all devices, A better solution to change the homeAsUpIndicator is to set it @null in style and change the logo resource programmatically.

Below is my code from style.xml

<style name="Theme.HomeScreen" parent="AppBaseTheme">
  <item name="displayOptions">showHome|useLogo</item>
  <item name="homeAsUpIndicator">@null</item>
  <item name="android:homeAsUpIndicator">@null</item>
</style>

In code you can change the logo using setLogo() method.

getSupportActionBar().setLogo(R.drawable.abc_ic_ab_back_holo_light); //for ActionBarCompat
getActionBar().setLogo(R.drawable.abc_ic_ab_back_holo_light); //for default actionbar for post 3.0 devices

Also note that the Android API 18 has methods to edit the homeAsUpIndicator programatically, refer documentation.

score 10 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 28 '16 at 23:25

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This worked for me

getSupportActionBar().setHomeAsUpIndicator(R.drawable.my_home_as_up)

answered Feb 28 '16 at 23:25

mco

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Is there a way to add padding left when used `getSupportActionBar()`? Thank you – natsumiyu Feb 14 '20 at 03:06

score 5 · Answer 4 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:32

Although this answer might achieve the expected behaviour, as you can read in the comments below it: "This hack does not work on some devices". I found another way according to Adneal's answer which gives me the clue and specially the right way to do.

Lower API: use id R.id.up to retrieve the related ImageView.
API >= 14: get the relative Parent of Home ImageView (android.R.id.home) and retrieve the first child which is the UpIndicator (android.R.id.up).

Then, this snippet code changes dynamically the UpIndicator:

if(Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.ICE_CREAM_SANDWICH) {
    // get the parent view of home (app icon) imageview
    ViewGroup home = (ViewGroup) findViewById(android.R.id.home).getParent();
    // get the first child (up imageview)
    ( (ImageView) home.getChildAt(0) )
        // change the icon according to your needs
        .setImageDrawable(getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.custom_icon_up));
} else {
    // get the up imageview directly with R.id.up
    ( (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.up) )
        .setImageDrawable(getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.custom_icon_up));
}

I have not tested on multiple devices (that's why I'm not sure this above code works for all devices), however this seems to work great in APIs mentioned in the update part here.

Note: If you don't make the difference between higher and lower APIs, you will get a NullPointerException because R.id.up is not available in higher API while android.R.id.up is not available in lower API.

score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 11 '13 at 11:14

I write solution for this. It's not beautiful but works:

public static ImageView getHomeAndUpIndicator(View decorView) {
    ImageView res = null;

    int upId = Resources.getSystem().getIdentifier("up", "id", "android");
    if (upId > 0) {
        res = (ImageView) decorView.findViewById(upId);
    } else {
        if (android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT <= 10) {
            ViewGroup acbOverlay = (ViewGroup)((ViewGroup)decorView).getChildAt(0);
            ViewGroup abcFrame = (ViewGroup)acbOverlay.getChildAt(0);
            ViewGroup actionBar = (ViewGroup)abcFrame.getChildAt(0);
            ViewGroup abLL = (ViewGroup)actionBar.getChildAt(0);
            ViewGroup abLL2 = (ViewGroup)abLL.getChildAt(1);
            res = (ImageView)abLL2.getChildAt(0);
        } else if (android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT > 10 && android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < 16) {
            ViewGroup acbOverlay = (ViewGroup)((ViewGroup)decorView).getChildAt(0);
            ViewGroup abcFrame = (ViewGroup)acbOverlay.getChildAt(0);
            ViewGroup actionBar = (ViewGroup)abcFrame.getChildAt(0);
            ViewGroup abLL = (ViewGroup)actionBar.getChildAt(1);
            res = (ImageView)abLL.getChildAt(0);
        } else {
            ViewGroup acbOverlay = (ViewGroup)((ViewGroup)decorView).getChildAt(0);
            ViewGroup abcFrame = (ViewGroup)acbOverlay.getChildAt(1);
            ViewGroup actionBar = (ViewGroup)abcFrame.getChildAt(0);
            ViewGroup abLL = (ViewGroup)actionBar.getChildAt(0);
            ViewGroup abF = (ViewGroup)abLL.getChildAt(0);
            res = (ImageView)abF.getChildAt(0);
        }
    }
    return res;
}

As a param put: getWindow().getDecorView()

Test on few devices (nexus 7 (4.4.2), samsung galaxy s+ (2.3.6), yaiu g3 (4.2.2)) and emulators with android 2.3.3 and 4.1.1

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Jan 16 '17 at 04:37

Here is working code

final Drawable upArrow = getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.ic_arrow_back_black_24dp);
        upArrow.setColorFilter(Color.parseColor("#000000"), PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_ATOP);
        getSupportActionBar().setHomeAsUpIndicator(upArrow);

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