How To Make The Toolbar Title Clickable Exactly Like On Actionbar, Without Setting It As Actionbar?

Background I wish to show an ActionBar on PreferenceActivity, as it's not available for pre-Honeycomb devices (even in the support library). Because such a class isn't available on

Solution 1:

I had the same problem and found a quite convenient way for it (for the clickable title), doing this with the Toolbar. It does not matter, if the Toolbaris used as ActionBar or not, it works for both cases.

Just set the click listener on the Toolbar itself, this will result in the complete Toolbarfiring the click listener, if not a menu item or the home icon is clicked. For me, that's exactly what I expect...

For example:

setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
 getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
 toolbar.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            Toast.makeText(getThis(), "Toolbar title clicked", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        }
    });

onOptionsItemSelected, home click and similar WON'T fire the onClick event. Seems like a good solution

Solution 2:

Just remember that the Toolbar is basically just a ViewGroup so you can add a TextView to it and listen to onClick events like that.

Add TextView to Toolbar in XML:

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
    android:id="@+id/toolbar_top"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
    android:background="@color/action_bar_bkgnd"
    app:theme="@style/ToolBarTheme" >


    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Settings"
        android:id="@+id/toolbar_title" />

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

Listen for clicks in your Activity:

toolbarTop.findViewById(R.id.toolbar_title).setOnClickListener(newView.OnClickListener() {
        @OverridepublicvoidonClick(View v) {
            Log.d(TAG,"Clicked");
        }
    });

Solution 3:

You can actually do it pretty easily without having to do any workarounds. You just need to cycle through all the child views of the Toolbar, and find a TextView that's got the correct title text.

Stringtitle= toolbar.getTitle();
for(inti=0; i < toolbar.getChildCount(); i++){
    ViewtmpView= toolbar.getChildAt(i);
    if("android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatTextView".equals(tmpView.getClass().getName())){
        if(((AppCompatTextView) tmpView).getText().equals(title)){
            tmpView.setOnClickListener(newView.OnClickListener() {
                @OverridepublicvoidonClick(View view) {
                    //do whatever you want here
                }
            });
        }
    }
}

Solution 4:

After setting up not empty toolbar title try this for setting title click listener

if (toolbarView != null) {
        intchildCount= toolbarView.getChildCount();
        for (inti=0; i < childCount; i++) {
            Viewview= toolbarView.getChildAt(i);
            if (view instanceof TextView) {
                view.setOnClickListener(listener);
                break;
            }
        }
    }

and after setting up not empty toolbar subtitle for setting subtitle click listener

if (toolbarView != null) {
        intchildCount= toolbarView.getChildCount();
        for (inti= childCount - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
            Viewview= toolbarView.getChildAt(i);
            if (view instanceof TextView) {
                view.setOnClickListener(listener);
                break;
            }
        }
    }