Padding between ActionBar's home icon and title

Question

Does anybody know how to set padding between the ActionBar\'s home icon and the title?

Answer 1

I used this method setContentInsetsAbsolute(int contentInsetLeft, int contentInsetRight) and it works!

int padding = getResources().getDimensionPixelSize(R.dimen.toolbar_content_insets);
mToolbar.setContentInsetsAbsolute(padding, 0);

Answer 2

this work for me to add padding to the title and for ActionBar icon i have set that programmatically.

 getActionBar().setTitle(Html.fromHtml("<font color='#fffff'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Boat App </font>"));

Answer 3

I adapted Cliffus answer and assigned the logo-drawable in my actionbar style definition, for instance like this in res/style.xml:

<item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/MyActionBar</item>

<style name="MyActionBar" parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar">
        <item name="android:background">#3f51b5</item>
        <item name="android:titleTextStyle">@style/ActionBar.TitleText</item>
        <item name="android:textColor">#fff</item>
        <item name="android:textSize">18sp</item>
        <item name="android:logo">@drawable/actionbar_space_between_icon_and_title</item>
</style>

The drawable looks like Cliffus' one (here with the default app launcher icon) in res/drawable/actionbar_space_between_icon_and_title.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item
        android:drawable="@drawable/ic_launcher"
        android:right="20dp"/>
</layer-list>

In the android_manifest.xml you can still set a different app icon (launcher icon on 'desktop'. Any different logo definition here are visible in activities without an action bar.

Answer 4

<string name="app_name">"    "Brick Industry</string>

Just add " " for your app name It will add space between icon and title

Answer 5

I used \t before the title and worked for me.

Answer 6

I solved this problem by using custom Navigation layout

Using it you can customize anything in title on action bar:

build.gradle

dependencies {
    compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:21.0.+'
    ...
}

AndroidManifest.xml

<application
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name">
        <activity
            android:name=".MainActivity"
            android:theme="@style/ThemeName">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
</application>

styles.xml

<style name="ThemeName" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">
   <item name="actionBarStyle">@style/ActionBar</item>
   <item name="android:actionBarStyle" tools:ignore="NewApi">@style/ActionBar</item>

<style name="ActionBar" parent="Widget.AppCompat.ActionBar">
   <item name="displayOptions">showCustom</item>
   <item name="android:displayOptions" tools:ignore="NewApi">showCustom</item>

    <item name="customNavigationLayout">@layout/action_bar</item>
   <item name="android:customNavigationLayout" tools:ignore="NewApi">@layout/action_bar</item>

    <item name="background">@color/android:white</item>
   <item name="android:background">@color/android:white</item>

action_bar.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TextView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
          android:id="@+id/action_bar_title"
          android:layout_width="wrap_content"
          android:layout_height="wrap_content"
          android:gravity="center_vertical"
          android:drawableLeft="@drawable/ic_launcher"
          android:drawablePadding="10dp"
          android:textSize="20sp"
          android:textColor="@android:color/black"
          android:text="@string/app_name"/>