Is there a way to reduce the spacing between the Action Item Icons on Action Bar?

Question

I wanted to reduce the spacing bettween Action Item icons added to the ActionBar. Is there a way we can do this?

Answer 1

use a custom android:actionButtonStyle.

<item name="android:actionButtonStyle">@style/ActionButtonStyle</item>

and the magic is here:

<style name="ActionButtonStyle" parent="@android:style/Widget.Holo.Light.ActionButton">
    <item name="android:minWidth">0dip</item>
    <item name="android:paddingLeft">0dip</item>
    <item name="android:paddingRight">0dip</item>                  
</style>

normaly minWidth is set to 56 dip.

Answer 2

If you are creating a custom ActionBar, you can add custom spacing, between elements, if you want to move items closer to each other, you can use negative values for your attributes. Like this pseudo-code (in your layout xml file):

<ImageView 
android:layout_marginLeft="-2dp"