Android toolbar background

Question

How can I add imageview on toolbar that it would be behind drawer and back arrow icons? that imageview should match toolbar height and wouldn't have any margins or padding on left side. I'm trying to achieve this for a while now and only solution I figured out to make custom Toolbar

Example:

Toolbar example

Shiva Snape · Accepted Answer · 2018-07-11T08:57:21.783

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You can try this:

  <RelativeLayout
                android:id="@+id/my_toolbar"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
                app:theme="@style/ActionBarThemeOverlay"
                app:popupTheme="@style/ActionBarPopupThemeOverlay"
                android:elevation="4dp"
                android:background="@color/white">

              <ImageView
                    android:layout_width="60dp"
                    android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
                    android:src="@drawable/yourImage"/>

    </RelativeLayout>

edited Jul 11 '18 at 08:57

answered Jul 11 '18 at 07:34

Shiva Snape

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But it would change toolbars whole background and I need that imageview to be for example 60dp wide – Tadas Jul 11 '18 at 07:37
you mean app icon on Toolbar? – Shiva Snape Jul 11 '18 at 08:27
I added example how it should look – Tadas Jul 11 '18 at 08:50
got it. so instead of Toolbar go with a Relative Layout – Shiva Snape Jul 11 '18 at 08:54
check the edited answer – Shiva Snape Jul 11 '18 at 09:00

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 11 '18 at 07:40

create appbar_layout_xml in layouts add following code

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar 
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="@drawable/my_img"
app:titleTextColor="@color/colorWhite"
android:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light"
>
</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>

and in your activity_xml include appbar_layout_xml layout in styles keep theme as NoActionBar

Android toolbar background

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