Android customized default title bar is not showing in 4.x devices

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15557526

  •  29-03-2022
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Question

I had customized the default title bar and it's showing as expected in 2.x, 3.x devices, but it's not showing in 4.x devices.

On device 2.2:
enter image description here

On device 4.1.2:
enter image description here

This is the code inside onCreate:

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        TextView localTextView = (TextView) getWindow().findViewById(
                android.R.id.title);
        if (localTextView != null) {
            ViewParent localViewParent = localTextView.getParent();
            if ((localViewParent != null)
                    && ((localViewParent instanceof FrameLayout))) {
                View localView = ((LayoutInflater) getSystemService("layout_inflater"))
                        .inflate(R.layout.logout_button, null);
                UIImageButton localUIImageButton = (UIImageButton) localView
                        .findViewById(R.id.logoutButton);
                Rect localRect = new Rect();
                Window localWindow = getWindow();
                localWindow.getDecorView().getWindowVisibleDisplayFrame(
                        localRect);
                int i = localRect.top;
                int j = localWindow.findViewById(android.R.id.title).getTop() - i;
                PrintStream localPrintStream = System.out;
                Object[] arrayOfObject = new Object[1];
                arrayOfObject[0] = Integer.valueOf(j);
                localPrintStream.printf("%d", arrayOfObject);
                localUIImageButton.setMaxHeight(j);
                ((FrameLayout) localViewParent).addView(localView);
            }
        }
    }

This is the manifest code:

<uses-sdk
    android:minSdkVersion="8"
    android:targetSdkVersion="15" />

<application
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
    android:label="@string/app_name" >
    <activity
        android:name=".MainActivity"
        android:label="@string/title_activity_main" >
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>
</application>

I want the title bar in 4.x devices to be similar as in 2.x.

Was it helpful?

Solution 2

After spending hours, i got solution to my problem. Adding this android:theme=@android:style/Theme.Light theme to activity is fixed problem and now same customize title bar shown as above device 2.2 screenshot, is shown across all versions properly.

OTHER TIPS

For Android 4.0 and above you need to customize the action bar. see: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/actionbar.html

Something along the lines of this.

ActionBar actionBar = getSupportActionBar();

LayoutInflater inflator = (LayoutInflater).getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
View v = inflator.inflate(R.layout.logout_button, null); // your logout button
actionBar.setCustomView(v);

A quick way to fix this is to change the android:targetSdkVersion back down to a pre honeycomb version. Then the app will be rendered using the compatibility mode and the title bar should match the older devices.

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