How do I place icon in upper left of Activity titlebar?

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I would like to place icon is upper left corner of Activity title bar. Also how do I widen the activity title bar? Thanks Is it possible to have button on left side that is menu so when you click it has menu item like logoff?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 22 '15 at 05:54

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if you are using toolbar it is done like this:

getSupportActionBar().setIcon(R.drawable.your_icon);

answered Oct 22 '15 at 05:54

Chordin4tion

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Ok, do you know how I could have a dropdown from there? – MuayThai Oct 22 '15 at 06:09
you can have dropdown in overflow menu using menu.xml...goto menu.xml and add list same as settings in menu.xml.... – Chordin4tion Oct 22 '15 at 06:13

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 22 '15 at 06:08

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In your Action bar what you can do is

getSupportActionBar().setIcon(R.drawable.icon);

and also you can set the logo in your manifest file

In AndroidManifest.xml add line:

android:logo="@drawable/icon"

answered Oct 22 '15 at 06:08

Moubeen Farooq Khan

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How about a dropdown menu on left hand side? What's involved in that? – MuayThai Oct 22 '15 at 06:10
@MuayThai for that have a look at this link – Moubeen Farooq Khan Oct 22 '15 at 06:20
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8312344/how-to-add-a-dropdown-item-on-the-action-bar – Moubeen Farooq Khan Oct 22 '15 at 06:20

How do I place icon in upper left of Activity titlebar?

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