Android - Activity Home/Up arrow has additional padding/margin with SDK 24

Question

I\'ve just updated my app from using SDK 23 to SDK 24.

A problem has arisen for my activities that have show the Up/Home arrow (i.e., getSupportActionBar().setDisp

Answer 1

I think that this padding is a new standard to match Material spec in SDK 24. First you must hide default toolbar title by this code:

getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);

Then make a file called toolbar.xml and add these codes in that file:

    
        android:layout_marginStart="16dp"
        android:gravity="left|center"
        android:text="Toolbar Title" 
        android:textColor="@color/white" 
        android:textSize="20sp"
        android:fontFamily="sans-serif-medium"/>

As you see, you can control everything in this file. Look at this line in toolbar.xml :

app:contentInsetStartWithNavigation="0dp"

This is what you want. Goodluck.