Floating Toolbar with Appcompat

Question

How to create a floating toolbar like the following image as proposed in the material design guidelines and in the Google Map application.

Answer 1

Since you are following the Material Design concept I am assuming your are using Coordinator Layout as your Main Layout and Not Frame Layout.

Before anything else we need to declare the important dependencies.

dependencies {
    compile 'com.android.support:design:22.2.1'
    compile 'com.android.support:cardview-v7:22.2.1'
}

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