How to change the text on the action bar

Question

Currently it just displays the name of the application and I want it to display something custom and be different for each screen in my app   For example  my home screen could say  page1  in the action bar while another activity that the app switches to could have  page2  in that screens action bar

User · Answer

We can change the ActionBar title in one of two ways:

In the Manifest: in the manifest file, set the label of each Activity.
```
android:label="@string/TitleWhichYouWantToDisplay"
```

In code: in code, call the setTitle() method with a String or the id of String as the argument.

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

        setTitle(R.string.TitleWhichYouWantToDisplay);
        // OR You can also use the line below
        // setTitle("MyTitle")
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    }
}

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Update  Latest ActionBar  Title  pattern   FYI  ActionBar was introduced in API Level 11  ActionBar is a window feature at the top of the Activity that may display the activity title  navigation modes  and other interactive items like search   I exactly remember about customizing title bar and making it consistent through the application  So I can make a comparison with the earlier days and can list some of the advantages of using ActionBar    It offers your users a familiar interface across applications that the system gracefully adapts for different screen configurations  Developers don t need to write much code for displaying the Activity Title  icons and navigation modes because ActionBar is already ready with top level abstraction    For example          Normal way   getActionBar   setTitle  Hello world App       getSupportActionBar   setTitle  Hello world App        provide compatibility to all the versions      Customizing Action Bar   For example    Override public void setActionBar String heading           TODO Auto-generated method stub      com actionbarsherlock app ActionBar actionBar   getSupportActionBar        actionBar setHomeButtonEnabled true       actionBar setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled false       actionBar setDisplayShowHomeEnabled false       actionBar setBackgroundDrawable new ColorDrawable getResources   getColor R color title bar gray         actionBar setTitle heading       actionBar show         Styling the Action Bar   The ActionBar provides you with basic and familiar looks  navigation modes and other quick actions to perform  But that doesn t mean it looks the same in every app  You can customize it as per your UI and design requirements  You just have to define and write styles and themes   Read more at  Styling the Action Bar  And if you want to generate styles for ActionBar then this Style Generator tool can help you out                                                                                      Old  Earlier days      Normal way   you can Change the Title of each screen  i e  Activity  by setting their Android label      lt activity android name   Hello World                    android label  This is the Hello World Application  gt      lt  activity gt       Custom - Title - bar    But if you want to Customize title-bar in your own way  i e  Want to put Image icon and custom-text  then the following code works for me   main xml   lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt   lt LinearLayout xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android      android orientation  vertical      android layout width  fill parent      android layout height  fill parent   gt    titlebar xml   lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt   lt LinearLayout xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android   android layout width  400dp     android layout height  fill parent    android orientation  horizontal  gt    lt ImageView android id    id ImageView01               android layout width  57dp               android layout height  wrap content              android background   drawable icon1   gt    lt TextView     android id    id myTitle     android text  This is my new title     android layout width  fill parent     android layout height  fill parent     android textColor   color titletextcolor       gt   lt  LinearLayout gt    TitleBar java  public class TitleBar extends Activity         Override     public void onCreate Bundle savedInstanceState            super onCreate savedInstanceState           final boolean customTitleSupported                    requestWindowFeature Window FEATURE CUSTOM TITLE           setContentView R layout main           if  customTitleSupported                getWindow   setFeatureInt Window FEATURE CUSTOM TITLE                  R layout titlebar                     final TextView myTitleText    TextView  findViewById R id myTitle           if  myTitleText    null                myTitleText setText  NEW TITLE                   user can also set color using  Color  and then                 Color value constant                 myTitleText setBackgroundColor Color GREEN                       strings xml  The strings xml file is defined under the values folder    lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt   lt resources gt       lt string name  hello  gt Hello World  Set Text TitleBar  lt  string gt       lt string name  app name  gt Set Text TitleBar lt  string gt       lt color name  titlebackgroundcolor  gt  3232CD lt  color gt       lt color name  titletextcolor  gt  FFFF00 lt  color gt   lt  resources gt

User · Answer

You just add this code in the onCreate method   setTitle  new title

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For future developers that are using AndroidX and the navigation architectural component   Instead of setting the toolbar title using one of the solutions above  which can be very painful if you want to set it dynamically on a back stack change  you can set a placeholder for the title of the fragment in the navigation graph like the following    lt fragment     android id    id some fragment      android name  package SomeFragment      android label  Hello  placeholder       tools layout   layout fragment some  gt       lt argument         android name  placeholder          app argType  string    gt   lt  fragment gt    The placeholder value has to be provided using the FragmentDirections  via the action method    It is then replaced in the title and show like Hello World  when placeholder    World

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getSupportActionBar   setTitle  title

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In onCreateView add this   activity as AppCompatActivity  supportActionBar  title   quot My APP Title quot

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You can define your title programatically using setTitle within your Activity  this method can accept either a String or an ID defined in your values strings xml file  Example    public class YourActivity extends Activity         Override     public void onCreate Bundle savedInstanceState             setTitle R string your title           setContentView R layout main

User · Answer

Inside Activity onCreate   callback or in the another place where you need to change title   getSupportActionBar   setTitle  Whatever title

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Little bit older but had the same problem  I did it like this   strings xml   lt string name  title awesome app  gt My Awesome App lt  string gt   and make sure you set this in your AndroidManifest xml    lt activity                             android label   string title awesome app   gt                   lt  activity gt    it s easy and you don t have to worry about null-references and other stuff

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Kotlin  You can do it programmatically in Kotlin this way  You just ignore it if  supportActionBar  is null       supportActionBar  setTitle R string my text      supportActionBar  title    My text    Or this way  It throws an exception if  supportActionBar  is null       supportActionBar   setTitle R string my text      supportActionBar   title    My text

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The easiest way is to call this setTitle        if you are in the activity  And if you are in a fragment  just call getActivity   setTitle          This way will let you change the title anytime  no need to call it before         setContentView R layout activity test

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try do this     public void onCreate Bundle savedInstanceState     super onCreate savedInstanceState       this setTitle String format your format string  your personal text to display        setContentView R layout your layout                             it works for me

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ActionBar ab   getActionBar    TextView tv   new TextView getApplicationContext      LayoutParams lp   new RelativeLayout LayoutParams          LayoutParams MATCH PARENT     Width of TextView         LayoutParams WRAP CONTENT   tv setLayoutParams lp   tv setTextColor Color RED   ab setCustomView tv     For more information check this link    http   android--code blogspot in 2015 09 android-how-to-change-actionbar-title 21 html

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The Easiest way to change the action bar name is to go to the AndroidManifest xml and type this code    lt activity android name   MainActivity      android label  Your Label gt   lt  activity gt

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You can define the label for each activity in your manifest file    A normal definition of a activity looks like this    lt activity      android name   ui myactivity       android label   string Title Text    gt    Where title text should be replaced by the id of a string resource for this activity   You can also set the title text from code if you want to set it dynamically   setTitle address getCity       with this line the title is set to the city of a specific adress in the oncreate method of my activity

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getActionBar   setTitle  edit your text

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The best way to change the action bar name is to go to the AndroidManifest xml and type this code    lt activity android name   YourActivity          android label  NameYouWantToDisplay gt   lt  activity gt

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if u r using navigation bar to change fragment then u can add change it where u r changing Fragment like below example    public boolean onNavigationItemSelected  NonNull MenuItem item                switch  item getItemId                      case R id clientsidedrawer                            Toast makeText getApplicationContext    quot Client selected quot  Toast LENGTH SHORT  show                        getSupportFragmentManager   beginTransaction   replace R id fragment container  new clients fragment    commit                        break                       case R id adddatasidedrawer                      getSupportActionBar   setTitle  quot Add Client quot                        getSupportFragmentManager   beginTransaction   replace R id fragment container  new addclient fragment    commit                        break                       case R id editid                      getSupportActionBar   setTitle  quot Edit Clients quot                        getSupportFragmentManager   beginTransaction   replace R id fragment container  new Editclient    commit                        break                       case R id taskid                      getSupportActionBar   setTitle  quot Task manager quot                        getSupportFragmentManager   beginTransaction   replace R id fragment container new Taskmanager    commit                        break   if u r using simple activity then just call   getSupportActionBar   setTitle  quot Contact Us quot     to change actionbar toolbar color in activity use   getSupportActionBar   setBackgroundDrawable new ColorDrawable Color parseColor  quot  06023b quot       to set gradient to actionbar first create gradient   Example directry created  gt  R drawable gradient contactus  lt  xml version  quot 1 0 quot  encoding  quot utf-8 quot   gt   lt shape     xmlns android  quot http   schemas android com apk res android quot      android shape  quot rectangle quot       gt        lt gradient         android angle  quot 90 quot          android startColor  quot  2980b9 quot          android centerColor  quot  6dd5fa quot          android endColor  quot  2980b9 quot  gt       lt  gradient gt     lt  shape gt   and then set it like this   getSupportActionBar   setBackgroundDrawable getResources   getDrawable R drawable gradient contactus

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