Adding toolbar to a FragmentActivity

Question

Am extending a FragmentActivity in a class which serves as my base activity where my other activities extend from. My issue is when I extend my other activities from my base activity, I loose toolbar functionality. How can I add this to my base activity so that my activities can inherit the toolbar? Any pointers?

No. I know how to add action bar. I mean toolbar. – codeFreak May 10 '15 at 06:24 — codeFreak, May 10 '15 at 06:24

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 28 '18 at 08:21

You should extend your Activity from AppCompatActivity as this includes support for Fragments and the Toolbar

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity { ...

    Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
    setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
    FragmentTransaction ft = getSupportFragmentManager.beginTransaction();
    ....
    ....

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 03 '16 at 23:13

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In case fragments should have custom view of ToolBar you can implement ToolBar for each fragment separately.

add ToolBar into fragment_layout :

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/toolbar"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:background="?attr/colorPrimaryDark"/>

find it in fragment :

@Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
                             Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment, container, false);
        Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) view.findViewById(R.id.toolbar);

        //set toolbar appearance
        toolbar.setBackground(R.color.material_blue_grey_800);

        //for crate home button
        ActionBarActivity activity = (ActionBarActivity) getActivity();
        activity.setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
        activity.getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
}

menu listener could be created two ways:

1.override onOptionsItemSelected in your fragment:

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    switch(item.getItemId()){
        case android.R.id.home:
            getActivity().onBackPressed();
    }
    return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}

2.set listener for toolbar when create it in onCreateView():

toolbar.setOnMenuItemClickListener(new Toolbar.OnMenuItemClickListener() {
            @Override
            public boolean onMenuItemClick(MenuItem menuItem) {
                return false;
            }
});

edited Sep 03 '16 at 23:13

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answered May 10 '15 at 06:13

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You mean I should extend Fragments instead of extending FragmentActivity for my base activity?? – codeFreak May 10 '15 at 06:23
Ya u can try this out – Nischal Hada May 10 '15 at 06:29
It won't work because fragments require an activity to be attached for it to work. FragmentActivity where used pre- honeycomb. Honeycomb above require an activity – codeFreak May 10 '15 at 06:43
Better yet, create a Toolbar layouts folder, and use tag to include it everywhere you use it to minimize code usage. This assumes you have the same toolbar in every fragment / activity – Lucas Crawford May 10 '15 at 07:05
– Nischal Hada May 10 '15 at 09:22
wasnt u able to add toolbar by using this – Nischal Hada May 10 '15 at 09:22
ActionBarActivity is deprecated and in FragmentActivity there is no getActivity method – DoruChidean Nov 18 '15 at 15:48
Please ignore this, it's not correct. as of 2019. You have to use AppCompactActivity. – MobileEvangelist Sep 01 '19 at 05:08

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