Set up toolbar as actionbar in fragment

Question

I want to set up my toolbar as an actionbar, but since your toolbar is a layoutelement it has to be in your layout. Now my layout is in my fragment.

I added the toolbar

Answer 1

Now ActionBarActivity is deprecated so You need to cast your activity from getActivity() to AppCompatActivity first. Here's an example:

((AppCompatActivity) getActivity()).getSupportActionBar().setSubtitle();

The reason you have to cast it is because getActivity() returns a FragmentActivity and you need an AppCompatActivity