[android] Creating a button in Android Toolbar

How can I create a button inside Android's Toolbar that looks like this iOS example?

Toolbar customization can done by following ways

write button and textViews code inside toolbar as shown below

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:id="@+id/app_bar"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    >

    <Button
      android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="@dimen/btn_height_small"
        android:text="Departure"
        android:layout_gravity="right"
        />
</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>

Other way is to use item menu as shown below

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_main, menu);
    return true;
}

I have added text in ToolBar :

menu_skip.xml

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    tools:context=".MainActivity">

    <item
        android:id="@+id/action_settings"
        android:title="@string/text_skip"
        app:showAsAction="never" />
</menu>

MainActivity.java

@Override
boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    inflater = getMenuInflater();
    inflater.inflate(R.menu.menu_otp_skip, menu);
    return true;
}

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    switch (item.getItemId()) {
        // action with ID action_refresh was selected
        case R.id.menu_item_skip:
            Toast.makeText(this, "Skip selected", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT)
                    .show();
            break;
        default:
            break;
    }
    return true;
}

You can actually put anything inside a toolbar. See the below code.

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
        android:id="@+id/toolbar"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
        android:background="@color/colorPrimary">

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

Between the above toolbar tag you can put almost anything. That is the benefit of using a Toolbar.

Source: Android Toolbar Example

They are called menu items or action buttons in toolbar/actionbar. Here you have Google tutorial how it works and how to add them https://developer.android.com/training/basics/actionbar/adding-buttons.html

I was able to achieve that by wrapping Button with ConstraintLayout:

<androidx.coordinatorlayout.widget.CoordinatorLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <com.google.android.material.appbar.AppBarLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        app:elevation="0dp">

        <androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar
            android:id="@+id/top_toolbar"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
            android:background="@color/white_color">

            <androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content">

                <TextView
                    android:id="@+id/cancel"
                    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:text="@string/cancel"
                    android:layout_marginStart="5dp"
                    app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
                    app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
                    app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />

                <Button
                    android:id="@+id/btn_publish"
                    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:text="@string/publish"
                    android:background="@drawable/button_publish_rounded"
                    app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
                    app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
                    app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
                    android:layout_marginEnd="10dp"
                    app:layout_constraintLeft_toRightOf="@id/cancel"
                    tools:layout_editor_absoluteY="0dp" />

            </androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>

        </androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar>

    </com.google.android.material.appbar.AppBarLayout>

</androidx.coordinatorlayout.widget.CoordinatorLayout>

You may create a drawable resourcebutton_publish_rounded, define the button properties and assign this file to button's android:background property:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <solid android:color="@color/green" />
    <corners android:radius="100dp" />
</shape>

You could use actionLayout from the support library.

menu.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">

<item
    android:id="@+id/button_item"
    android:title=""
    app:actionLayout="@layout/button_layout"
    app:showAsAction="always"
    />
</menu>

button_layout.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="horizontal">

<Button
    android:id="@+id/button"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
    android:layout_centerVertical="true"
    />

</RelativeLayout>

Activity.java

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu, menu);
    MenuItem item = menu.findItem(R.id.button_item);
    Button btn = item.getActionView().findViewById(R.id.button);
    btn.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View view) {
            Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, "Toolbar Button Clicked!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        }
    });
    return true;
}

Another possibility is to set the app:actionViewClass attribute in your menu:

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">
  <item
     android:id="@+id/get_item"
     android:orderInCategory="1"
     android:text="Get"
     app:showAsAction="always" 
     app:actionViewClass="android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatButton"/>
</menu>

In your code you can access this button after the menu was inflated:

public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    MenuInflater menuInflater = getMenuInflater();
    menuInflater.inflate(R.menu.sample, menu);

    MenuItem getItem = menu.findItem(R.id.get_item);
    if (getItem != null) {
        AppCompatButton button = (AppCompatButton) getItem.getActionView();
        //Set a ClickListener, the text, 
        //the background color or something like that
    }

    return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
}