Setting Action Bar title and subtitle

Question

I want to set title and subtitile of my action bar before compile time. I got a way to do it like this:

ActionBar ab = getActionBar();
ab.setTitle(\"My Title         


        

Answer 1

You can set the title in action-bar using AndroidManifest.xml. Add label to the activity

<activity
            android:name=".YourActivity"
            android:label="Your Title" />

Answer 2

supportActionBar?.title = "Hola tio"
supportActionBar?.subtitle = "Vamos colega!"

Answer 3

    <activity android:name=".yourActivity" android:label="@string/yourText" />

Put this code into your android manifest file and it should set the title of the action bar to what ever you want!

Answer 4

Try This:

In strings.xml add your title and subtitle...

ActionBar ab = getActionBar();
ab.setTitle(getResources().getString(R.string.myTitle));
ab.setSubtitle(getResources().getString(R.string.mySubTitle));

Answer 5

For an activity you can use this approach to specify a subtitle, along with the title, in the manifest.

Manifest:

<activity
    android:name=".MyActivity"
    android:label="@string/my_title"
    android:description="@string/my_subtitle">
</activity>

Activity:

try {
    ActivityInfo activityInfo = getPackageManager().getActivityInfo(getComponentName(), PackageManager.GET_META_DATA);
    //String title = activityInfo.loadLabel(getPackageManager()).toString();
    int descriptionResId = activityInfo.descriptionRes;
    if (descriptionResId != 0) {
        toolbar.setSubtitle(Utilities.fromHtml(getString(descriptionResId)));
    }
}
catch(Exception e) {
    Log.e(LOG_TAG, "Could not get description/subtitle from manifest", e);
}

This way you only need to specify the title string once, and you get to specify the subtitle right alongside it.

Answer 6

This is trivial one-liner in Kotlin

supportActionBar?.title = getString(R.string.coolTitle)