
We can also add labels, logos, navigation icons and other views in it. We can easily modify its color, size and position. Important Note: Toolbar’s are more flexible than ActionBar. A Toolbar may contain a combination of elements from start to end.

Toolbar provides more feature than ActionBar. Material Design brings lot of new features in Android that changed a lot the visual design patterns regarding the designing of modern Android applications.Īn Action bar is traditionally a part of an Activity opaque window decor controlled by the framework but a Toolbar may be placed at any level of nesting within a view hierarchy. Toolbar was introduced in Material Design in API level 21 (Android 5.0 i.e Lollipop). We can easily replace an ActionBar with Toolbar. Toolbar is a Viewgroup that can be placed at anywhere in the Layout. In Android Toolbar is similar to an ActionBar(now called as App Bars).

ToolBar Tutorial With Example In Android Studio
