How to customize the back button on ActionBar

Question

I have been able to customize the action bar\'s background, logo image and text color using suggestions from these:
Android: How to change the ActionBar "Home"

Answer 1

If you are using Toolbar, you don't need those solutions. You only have to change the theme of the toolbar

app:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light"

app:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar"

If you are using a dark.actionBar your back button is going to be white else if you are using light actionbar theme it is going to be black.

Answer 2

I did the below code onCreate() and worked with me

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

Answer 3

tray this:

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

inside onCreate();

Answer 4

So you can change it programmatically easily by using homeAsUpIndicator() function that added in android API level 18 and upper.

ActionBar().setHomeAsUpIndicator(R.drawable.ic_yourindicator);

If you use support library

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

Answer 5

I had the same issue of Action-bar Home button icon direction,because of miss managing of Icon in Gradle Resource directory icon

like in Arabic Gradle resource directory you put icon in x-hdpi and in English Gradle resource same icon name you put in different density folder like xx-hdpi ,so that in APK there will be two same icon names in different directories,so your device will pick density dependent icon may be RTL or LTR

Answer 6

I used back.png image in the project menifest.xml file. it is fine working in project.

<activity
        android:name=".YourActivity"
         android:icon="@drawable/back"
        android:label="@string/app_name" >
    </activity>