Make the transparent actionbar in fragment

Question

I've been searching on how to make transparent actionbar in fragment and no answer so far. So, the scenario is, I create an app using Navigation Drawer, each menu refer to same actionbar in MainActivity.

But I can't customize actionbar in transparent mode, like this Transparent Actionbar: custom tabcolor. In this:

getWindow().requestFeature(Window.FEATURE_ACTION_BAR_OVERLAY);
ActionBar actionBar = getActionBar();
actionBar.setBackgroundDrawable(new ColorDrawable(Color.parseColor("#330000ff")));
actionBar.setStackedBackgroundDrawable(new ColorDrawable(Color.parseColor("#550000ff")));

that code had to before setContentView, and as you know on the fragment we use onCreateView for the layout.

How can I achieve the transparent actionbar in fragment?

use the code in the parent activity to which your fragment is attached. — Karthika PB, Mar 24 '15 at 06:17
So is your code in `MainActivity` class in which your navigation drawer? — Piyush, Mar 24 '15 at 06:34
Why don't you put this code on Activity class or FragmentActivity class? I think it will be better. — Soham, Mar 24 '15 at 07:11

Apar Amin · Answer 1 · 2016-05-27T11:26:42.387

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if you just want to make transparent Actionbar then you can do it by this way in Fragment's onCreateView getActivity().getActionBar().setBackgroundDrawable(new ColorDrawable(Color.parseColor("#33000000")));

edited May 27 '16 at 11:26

answered Mar 24 '15 at 06:26

Apar Amin

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 24 '15 at 06:42

Use a Toolbar and use the following code to let it behave like Action bar

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

To include toolbar in your layout use the following.

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id=”@+id/my_awesome_toolbar”
android:layout_height=”wrap_content”
android:layout_width=”match_parent”
android:minHeight=”?attr/actionBarSize”
android:background=”?attr/colorPrimary” />

It is a lot easy to change transparency of Toolbar as compared to dealing with ActionBar

Once set you can deal with toolbar as any other view i.e. changing transparency/color dynamically is a lot easy for Toolbar

I can't use this, because the toolbar already have based on main Toolbar (set in main activity). — Indra C., Mar 24 '15 at 08:22
you can always use the getActivity() method and refer to the toolbar that is defined outside. You can also create a global variable to refer to toolbar — Roadblock, Mar 24 '15 at 08:39

Make the transparent actionbar in fragment

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