How to change Toolbar layout after listitems selection in android activity

Question

I have created an activity with toolbar and recyclerview,Implemented selection option for recyclerview, After selection of list items i need to update selected items count in toolbar.I'm trying to achieve this by using

    @Override
public boolean onCreateActionMode(ActionMode actionMode, Menu menu) {
    // Inflate a menu resource providing context menu items
    MenuInflater inflater = actionMode.getMenuInflater();
    inflater.inflate(R.menu.menu_cab_recyclerviewdemoactivity, menu);

    return true;
}

Now after selecting recyclerview items extra actionbar adding above the toolbar,Here is screen http://screencast.com/t/UY2KSs9r

I have shared screenshot also,extra actionbar adding that is issue,in code i think problem is in onCreateActionMode(); — sri, Dec 22 '15 at 07:24
instead of inflating a menu i assume you should directly manipulate the toolbar title. — Nishant Srivastava, Dec 22 '15 at 07:26
Fine,Actually i want to change the layout of toolbar not jus name,bcz i have few more action items in toolbar i.e copy ,paste,delete after selection of recyclerview items.could you please my question once. — sri, Dec 22 '15 at 07:28
Use a toolbar :) http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/Toolbar.html — Nishant Srivastava, Dec 22 '15 at 07:31
I'm already using toolbar ,If you see the screenshot in above link,Sri Tests with backbutton is my toolbar. — sri, Dec 22 '15 at 07:33
clean your layout, edit your message, it's becoming really messsy post — piotrek1543, Dec 22 '15 at 07:41
use custom toolbar, You can easily manage things what you want. — Ravi Jaggarapu, Dec 22 '15 at 08:01
Possible duplicate of [How to Change the Text Selection Toolbar color which comes when we copy a text?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28277676/how-to-change-the-text-selection-toolbar-color-which-comes-when-we-copy-a-text) — DarkLeafyGreen, Apr 20 '17 at 16:13

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 22 '15 at 07:33

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If you just want to update the count in the toolbar, you can just update the title,

final ActionBar ab = getSupportActionBar();
if(ab!=null)
    ab.setTitle(stringVariable);

I'm not sure what else you want to do, so for now here is my answer.

answered Dec 22 '15 at 07:33

hehe

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 22 '15 at 07:43

First of all remove the default ActionBar

edit your style.xml

 <!-- Base application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
    <!-- Customize your theme colors here. -->
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/primary</item>
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/primary_dark</item>
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/accent</item>

    <!-- Disables the Default ActionBar -->
    <item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
    <item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
</style>

Then in your main_activity_layout.xml, remove any padding on the root RelativeLayout tag.

 <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
        android:id="@+id/mainToolbar"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content">

        <ImageButton
            android:id="@+id/main_settings_btn"
            android:background="@drawable/ic_settings"
            android:backgroundTint="@color/accent"
            android:contentDescription="Copy"/>

        <ImageButton
            android:layout_alignParentEnd="true"
            android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
            android:layout_gravity="right"
            android:layout_marginRight="10dp"
            android:background="@drawable/ic_points"
            android:backgroundTint="@color/accent"
            android:contentDescription="Paste"/>

    </android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>
    ...... <your_code_here_possibly_recyclerview>

This solves your extra toolbar issue.

private Toolbar toolbar;                              // Declaring the Toolbar Object


@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.mainToolbar); // Attaching the layout to the toolbar object
    setSupportActionBar(toolbar);                   // Setting toolbar as the ActionBar with setSupportActionBar() call

   // Now whenever you want to update the title just change text in below 
   getSupportActionBar().setTitle("My title"); 

}

I can able to create activity with toolbar and recyclerview ,after recyclerview items selection need to change toolbar. — sri, Dec 22 '15 at 07:52
you do know when the items get selected right? whenever you select an item you just add a value to an integer variable and then update your toolbar title by calling getSupportActionBar().setTitle(String.valueOf(selectedTotalInt); — Nishant Srivastava, Dec 22 '15 at 07:54

How to change Toolbar layout after listitems selection in android activity

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