How can I detect a click on the ActionBar title?

Question

For specific customer requirement, I need to allow the user of my app ( won\'t be published in Market) to click on the ActionBar title to execute some actions.

I hav

Answer 1

You can set up a custom toolbar from Support Library by declaring in your layout (see Chris Banes' answer for full toolbar layout example).

After you can add on click listener in your activity just like to most other Views.

Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.my_awesome_toolbar);
setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
toolbar.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                Toast.makeText(MyActivity.this, "Test", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
            }
        });

If you want to capture touch events on title:

toolbar.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() {
            Rect hitrect = new Rect();
            public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
                if (MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN == event.getAction()) {
                    boolean hit = false;
                    for (int i = toolbar.getChildCount() - 1; i != -1; i--) {
                        View view = toolbar.getChildAt(i);
                        if (view instanceof TextView) {
                            view.getHitRect(hitrect);
                            if (hitrect.contains((int)event.getX(), (int)event.getY())) {
                                hit = true;
                                break;
                            }
                        }
                    }
                    if (hit) {
                        //Hit action
                    }
                }
                return false;
            }
        });