Toolbar logo and title are centered even though they're not supposed to be

Question

I'm having trouble implementing a Toolbar in my Android application. I have several problems, really.

First off, here's my MainActivity.java :

public class MainActivity extends Activity {
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar)findViewById(R.id.toolbar_Main);
        toolbar.setLogo(R.drawable.logo);
        toolbar.setTitle(R.string.app_name);
        toolbar.inflateMenu(R.menu.main_actions);

        setActionBar(toolbar);
    }
}

activity_main.xml :

<LinearLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    tools:context=".MainActivity"
    android:nestedScrollingEnabled="false">

    <Toolbar
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="?android:attr/actionBarSize"
        android:id="@+id/toolbar_Main"
        android:background="?android:attr/colorPrimary" />

    <!-- There's an EditText here, but I think that's not the problem -->

</LinearLayout>

styles.xml :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <style name="AppTheme" parent="android:Theme.Material.Light">
        <item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
        <item name="android:windowActionBar">false</item>
        <item name="android:colorPrimary">@color/primaryColor</item>
        <item name="android:colorPrimaryDark">@color/primaryColorDark</item>
    </style>
</resources>

The problems I'm having are:

1. the menu is gone;
2. the logo and title text are centered in the Toolbar, even though I'm pretty sure I haven't set any property to center or whatever.

Now the first problem I can fix by removing the setActionBar part (not sure if that's good practice though), but second one, not so much. The logo and text remain centered no matter what I try. I've tried setting the Toolbar's gravity to top|left , as well as some other things, all to no avail.

When searching on Google (or StackOverflow), all I get are results asking to center the text, which is what I don't want.

I should also mention that I'm developing the app only for API level 21, so no AppCompat and all that fancy stuff, just a Toolbar that I wish to use as the app's main ActionBar.

I'm probably just missing some tiny thing, so thanks in advance.

Answer 1

To me:

• You should not remove the setActionBar() call;
• Your menu might be disappearing because maybe you have a hardware menu button on your device. Try tapping and see what happens. To fix however, try deleting the inflateMenu() line and inflate the menu during onCreateOptionsMenu() , as usual;

• Title and logo issues, as well as menu disappearing, might be due to:

   <item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item> <item name="android:windowActionBar">false</item> 

  Why these lines? Just remove them if you don't need.

• If this doesn't fix, try calling setActionBar(toolbar) first, and then set title using getActionBar().setTitle() . However I'm pretty sure that removing the two window lines from your style will be enough, so do that first.