Get the Height of ActionBar

Question

I am using Actionbar in my application.
I want the Height of the ActionBar programatically hence I am using :

ActionBar.getHeight(); 

But I am getting 0 value of Height. So How can I get the Height of ActionBar?

Answer 1

I found the alternative of ActionBar.getHeight()
If anyone facing the same issue then this link is useful.

While @birdy's answer is an option if you want to explicitly control the ActionBar size there is a way to pull it up without locking the size that I found in support documentation. It's a little awkward but it's worked for me. You'll need a context, this example would be valid in an Activity. ~ Anthony

// Calculate ActionBar's height 
TypedValue tv = new TypedValue(); 
if (getTheme().resolveAttribute(android.R.attr.actionBarSize, tv, true)) {
    actionBarHeight = TypedValue.complexToDimensionPixelSize(tv.data,getResources().getDisplayMetrics()); 
}

Answer 2

Below code will help too. You may need to change getContext() to this

final TypedArray styledAttributes = getContext().getTheme().obtainStyledAttributes(
                    new int[] { android.R.attr.actionBarSize });
mActionBarSize = (int) styledAttributes.getDimension(0, 0);
styledAttributes.recycle();

The answer is copied from this question What is the size of ActionBar in pixels?

For the newer version of Android you could simply do this:

getActionBar().getHeight()

Answer 3

A simple way to find actionbar height is from Activity onPrepareOptionMenu method.

@Override
public boolean onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
           ....
           int actionBarHeight = getActionBar().getHeight());
           .....
    }