Android Spinner in Toolbar

As the title of the The The post suggest in this tutorial we'll see what spinner widgets inside the toolbar in the Previou S series of tutorial we have seen many example on how to set up the Android spinner Widget and also we have seen How to has Android Material Design toolbar , in this tutorial we'll see the combination of the both.

String Constant

Lets has Array of string constant which'll be set to spinner

File:string.xml

<Resources><stringname= "App_name">Spinnertoolbar</string><stringname= "Action_settings">Settings</string><!--Category -<String-arrayname= "category"><Item>Top News</Item><Item>Business</Item><Item>Politics</Item><Item>Sports</Item><Item>Technology</Item><Item>Movies</Item></String-array></Resources>

XML Layout

Create a Layout/activity_main.xml file which contains Toolbar widget.

File:activity_main.xml

<LinearLayoutxmlns:android= "Http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"Xmlns:tools= "Http://schemas.android.com/tools"Android:layout_width= "Match_parent"Android:layout_height= "Match_parent"Tools:context=". Mainactivity "><Android.support.v7.widget.ToolbarAndroid:id= "@+id/toolbar"Android:layout_width= "Match_parent"Android:layout_height= "Wrap_content"Android:background= "? Attr/colorprimary"Android:minheight= "? Attr/actionbarsize" /></LinearLayout>

Create a spinner_dropdown_item.xml which contains TextView which represents view for each items of spinner.

File:spinner_dropdown_item.xml

<?XML version= "1.0" encoding= "Utf-8"?><TextViewxmlns:android= "Http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"Android:id= "@android: Id/text1"Android:layout_width= "Match_parent"Android:layout_height= "Wrap_content"Android:background= "@color/colorprimary"android:gravity= "Center_vertical"Android:minheight= "? Android:attr/listpreferreditemheightsmall"Android:paddingleft= "12DP"Android:paddingright= "12DP"android:textappearance= "? Android:attr/textappearancelistitemsmall" />

Mainactivity

Create a class mainactivity which extends Appcompatactivity, now inside OnCreate () Add spinner to toolbar dyanamically an D also set Onitemselectlistener.

File:MainActivity.java

 PackageCom.tutorialsbuzz.spinnertoolbar;Importandroid.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity;ImportAndroid.os.Bundle;Importandroid.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;ImportAndroid.support.v7.widget.Toolbar;ImportAndroid.view.View;ImportAndroid.widget.AdapterView;ImportAndroid.widget.ArrayAdapter;ImportAndroid.widget.Spinner;ImportAndroid.widget.SpinnerAdapter;ImportAndroid.widget.Toast; Public classMainactivityextendsappcompatactivity {PrivateToolbar toolbar=NULL;PrivateString[] Category=NULL; @Overrideprotected voidonCreate (Bundle savedinstancestate) {Super. OnCreate (savedinstancestate); Setcontentview (r.layout.activity_main); category=getresources (). Getstringarray (r.array.category); toolbar=(Toolbar) Findviewbyid (R.id.toolbar); Setsupportactionbar (Toolbar); Getsupportactionbar (). Setdisplayshowtitleenabled (false); Toolbar.setlogo (R.drawable.ic_drawer); Spinneradapter Spinneradapter=Arrayadapter.createfromresource (Getapplicationcontext (), r.array.category, R.layout.spinner_dropdown_item); Spinner Navigationspinner=NewSpinner (Getsupportactionbar (). Getthemedcontext ()); Navigationspinner.setadapter (Spinneradapter); Toolbar.addview (Navigationspinner,0); Navigationspinner.setonitemselectedlistener (NewAdapterview.onitemselectedlistener () {@Override Public voidOnitemselected (adapterview<?> Parent, view view,intPositionLongID) {toast.maketext (mainactivity. This,"You selected:" +category[position],toast.length_short). Show ();} @Override Public voidOnnothingselected (adapterview<?>parent) {}});}}

Android Spinner in Toolbar