Setting Action Bar title and subtitle

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I want to set title and subtitile of my action bar before compile time  I got a way to do it like this   ActionBar ab   getActionBar    ab setTitle  My Title    ab setSubtitle  sub-title      But I don t want to do it on run time  Is there any xml file or any location where I can specify these titles   I am trying to achieve this     Edit   The reason why I want it in xml is that I want my app to be supported in API level 8  And the method getActionBar   is supported at least on level 11

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Nope  You have to do it at runtime   If you want to make your app backwards compatible  then simply check the device API level  If it is higher than 11  then you can fiddle with the ActionBar and set the subtitle   if Integer valueOf android os Build VERSION SDK   gt   11         set actionbar title

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The title for the actionbar could be in the AndroidManifest  here     lt activity                      android label  string resource              lt  activity gt       android label    A user-readable label for the activity  The label is   displayed on-screen when the activity must be represented to the user    It s often displayed along with the activity icon  If this attribute   is not set  the label set for the application as a whole is used   instead  see the  element s label attribute   The   activity s label     whether set here or by the  element       is also the default label for all the activity s intent filters  see   the  element s label attribute   The label should be   set as a reference to a string resource  so that it can be localized   like other strings in the user interface  However  as a convenience   while you re developing the application  it can also be set as a raw   string

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There is another option that no one commented  from the Support Library V7 was implemented by Google ActionBarSupport  which is compatible ActionBar from Android 2 2 to the last  If you change your ActionBar this you can do getSupportActionBar   setTitle     on all Android versions

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Try This  Just go to your Manifest file  and You have define the label for each activity in your manifest file    lt activity         android name   Search Video          android label   string app name          android screenOrientation  portrait  gt       lt  activity gt    here change   android label   string your title

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This is trivial one-liner in Kotlin  supportActionBar  title   getString R string coolTitle

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Try this one   android support v7 app ActionBar ab   getSupportActionBar    ab setTitle  This is Title    ab setSubtitle  This is Subtitle

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supportActionBar  title    Hola tio  supportActionBar  subtitle    Vamos colega

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lt activity android name   yourActivity  android label   string yourText    gt    Put this code into your android manifest file and it should set the title of the action bar to what ever you want

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Try This   In strings xml add your title and subtitle     ActionBar ab   getActionBar    ab setTitle getResources   getString R string myTitle    ab setSubtitle getResources   getString R string mySubTitle

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For an activity you can use this approach to specify a subtitle  along with the title  in the manifest   Manifest    lt activity     android name   MyActivity      android label   string my title      android description   string my subtitle  gt   lt  activity gt    Activity   try       ActivityInfo activityInfo   getPackageManager   getActivityInfo getComponentName    PackageManager GET META DATA         String title   activityInfo loadLabel getPackageManager    toString        int descriptionResId   activityInfo descriptionRes      if  descriptionResId    0            toolbar setSubtitle Utilities fromHtml getString descriptionResId             catch Exception e        Log e LOG TAG   Could not get description subtitle from manifest   e       This way you only need to specify the title string once  and you get to specify the subtitle right alongside it

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You can set the title in action-bar using AndroidManifest xml  Add label to the activity   lt activity             android name   YourActivity              android label  Your Title    gt

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You can do something like this to code for both versions          Sets the Action Bar for new Android versions       TargetApi Build VERSION CODES HONEYCOMB  private void actionBarSetup       if  Build VERSION SDK INT  gt   Build VERSION CODES HONEYCOMB        ActionBar ab   getActionBar        ab setTitle  My Title        ab setSubtitle  sub-title             Then call actionBarSetup   in onCreate    The if runs the code only on new Android versions and the  TargetApi allows the code to compile  Therefore it makes it safe for both old and new API versions   Alternatively  you can also use ActionBarSherlock  see edit  so you can have the ActionBar on all versions  You will have to do some changes such as making your Activities extend SherlockActivity and calling getSupportActionBar    however  it is a very good global solution   Edit  Note that when this answer was originally written  ActionBarSherlock  which has since been deprecated  was the go-to compatibility solution   Nowadays  Google s appcompat-v7 library provides the same functionality but is supported  and actively updated  by Google  Activities wanting to implement an ActionBar must    extend AppCompatActivity use a Theme AppCompat derivative   To get an ActionBar instance using this library  the aptly-named getSupportActionBar   method is used

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