How can an activity use a Toolbar without extending AppCompatActivity

Question

I have an activity HomeView which already extends another activity and it cannot extend AppCompatActivity. But HomeView needs to have a Toolbar. Th

Answer 1

You need to implement AppCompatCallback and use AppCompatDelegate. Here's an excellent article about how to use it: https://medium.com/google-developer-experts/how-to-add-toolbar-to-an-activity-which-doesn-t-extend-appcompatactivity-a07c026717b3#.nuyghrgr9 and also check out https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v7/app/AppCompatDelegate.html for knowing which methods to delegate.

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AppCompatDelegate

This class represents a delegate which you can use to extend AppCompat's support to any Activity.

When using an AppCompatDelegate, you should any methods exposed in it rather than the Activity method of the same name. This applies to:

addContentView(android.view.View, android.view.ViewGroup.LayoutParams)
setContentView(int)
setContentView(android.view.View)
setContentView(android.view.View, android.view.ViewGroup.LayoutParams)
requestWindowFeature(int)
invalidateOptionsMenu()
startSupportActionMode(android.support.v7.view.ActionMode.Callback)
setSupportActionBar(android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar)
getSupportActionBar()
getMenuInflater()

There also some Activity lifecycle methods which should be proxied to the delegate:

onCreate(android.os.Bundle)
onPostCreate(android.os.Bundle)
onConfigurationChanged(android.content.res.Configuration)
setTitle(CharSequence)
onStop()
onDestroy()