Changing the Action bar icon

Question

I\'m currently implementing theme support for my application and a part of it is changing the action bar app icon. I want to use a dark icon when Holo Light is selected. Eve

Answer 1

Calling to setIcon wasn't enough for me.

Before that, I had to switch the display from activity logo to activity icon:

actionBar.setDisplayUseLogoEnabled(false);

For the differences between activity icon and logo see Android icon vs logo.

Answer 2

I am using this for my use , and it's working for me. Hope this help all

actionBar.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
actionBar.setHomeAsUpIndicator(R.drawable.icon);

Answer 3

Though its a bit late answer but i thought it might be useful.

From inside an activity: For API level 14 or higher:

getActionBar().setIcon(R.drawable.my_icon);

For lower API level we have to extend ActionBarActivity and then:

getSupportActionBar().setIcon(R.drawable.my_icon);

From inside a Fragment: For API level 14 or higher:

getActivity().getActionBar().setIcon(R.drawable.my_icon);

For lower API level we can use (activity must extend ActionBarActivity):

((ActionBarActivity)getActivity()).getSupportActionBar().setIcon(R.drawable.my_icon);

And in both cases we have to call setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(true) before setting the icon or logo.

((ActionBarActivity)getActivity()).getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(true);

((ActionBarActivity)getActivity()).getSupportActionBar().setIcon(R.drawable.my_icon);

Answer 4

You need to add the drawable that you want to reference into your drawable/ folder under res/.

edit: In your Android installation folder there are a lot of stock images to use. You can probably find it there.

Answer 5

getActionBar();

You're throwing the action bar away right there. getActionBar() returns an instance of ActionBar, which you then need to call setIcon() on. Like so:

ActionBar actionBar = getActionBar();
actionBar.setIcon(R.drawable.my_icon);

Answer 6

Try this

    setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
    if (getSupportActionBar() != null)
    getSupportActionBar().setIcon(R.drawable.your_icon);