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

This is a common question in Material Design as you may want to line your toolbars title with the content in the fragment below. To do this, you can override the default padding of "12dp" by using the attribute contentInsetStart="72dp" in your toolbar.xml layout as shown below

toolbar.xml

Then in your activity, call

Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) activity.findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
toolbar.setTitle("Title Goes Here");

And you end up with this: