Adding custom view to a toolbar

Question

I am trying to add a custom view to the new toolbar (Lollipop) . But somehow the view gets added below the toolbar. It was working fine when I used actionBar.setCustom

Answer 1

With toolbar I've managed to achieve that like this:

setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
View logo = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.view_logo, null);
toolbar.addView(logo);

Or you can also just add your view to the toolbar xml, as it's just a ViewGroup. This way you'll have the preview in layout editor. No java code required.