How to change the text on the action bar

Question

Currently it just displays the name of the application and I want it to display something custom and be different for each screen in my app.

For example: my home scr

Answer 1

The best way to change the action bar name is to go to the AndroidManifest.xml and type this code.

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

Answer 2

We can change the ActionBar title in one of two ways:

1. In the Manifest: in the manifest file, set the label of each Activity.

   android:label="@string/TitleWhichYouWantToDisplay"
   

2. In code: in code, call the setTitle() method with a String or the id of String as the argument.

   public class MainActivity extends Activity {
   
       @Override
       public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
   
           setTitle(R.string.TitleWhichYouWantToDisplay);
           // OR You can also use the line below
           // setTitle("MyTitle")
           setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
   
       }
   }
   

Answer 3

You can define your title programatically using setTitle within your Activity, this method can accept either a String or an ID defined in your values/strings.xml file. Example:

public class YourActivity extends Activity {

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

        setTitle(R.string.your_title);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);

    }
}

Answer 4

The easiest way is to call this.setTitle("...") if you are in the activity. And if you are in a fragment, just call getActivity().setTitle("...");

This way will let you change the title anytime, no need to call it before setContentView(R.layout.activity_test);

Answer 5

getActionBar().setTitle("edit your text"); 

Answer 6

getSupportActionBar().setTitle("title");