Android: How to change the ActionBar “Home” Icon to be something other than the app icon?

Question

My application\'s main icon consists of two parts in one image: a logo and a few letters below it. This works well for the launcher icon for the app, but when the icon appea

Answer 1

creating logo

in folders "drawable-..." create in all of them logo.png . The location of the folders: [YOUR APP]\app\src\main\res

In AndroidManifest.xml add line: android:logo="@drawable/logo"

<application
    android:allowBackup="true"
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
    android:logo="@drawable/logo"
    ...

that's it.

Answer 2

Please try this line

getSupportActionBar().setHomeAsUpIndicator(R.drawable.back_arrow);