Android: How to Center Title in Toolbar

Android toolbar center title and custom font

To use a custom title in your Toolbar all you need to do is remember is that Toolbar is just a fancy ViewGroup so you can add a custom title like so:

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
    android:id="@+id/toolbar_top"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:minHeight="?android:attr/actionBarSize"
    android:background="@color/action_bar_bkgnd"
    app:theme="@style/ToolBarTheme" >

     <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="Toolbar Title"
        android:layout_gravity="center"
        android:id="@+id/toolbar_title" />

    </android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>

This means that you can style the TextView however you would like because it's just a regular TextView. So in your activity you can access the title like so:

Toolbar toolbarTop = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar_top);
TextView mTitle = (TextView) toolbarTop.findViewById(R.id.toolbar_title);

Android How to center title of top actionBar?

I was able to figure out the solution. I will post it incase anyone runs across this issue.

I added the following to the Main Activity xml:

<androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar
    android:id="@+id/toolBar"
    android:elevation="5dp"
    app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:background="@color/colorBlack">

    <Button
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:background="@color/colorTransparent"
        android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
        android:layout_gravity="start"
        android:text="@string/log_out"
        android:textAlignment="center"
        android:textColor="@color/lightblue"

        />

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/app_name"
        android:textColor="@color/colorApp"
        android:textSize="20sp"/>

        <ImageButton
            android:layout_width="20dp"
            android:layout_height="20dp"
            android:src="@drawable/ic_add"
            android:tint="@color/lightblue"
            android:layout_alignParentEnd="true"
            android:layout_gravity="end"
            android:background="@color/colorBlack" />

</androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar>

I also took away the padding top from the androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout opening tag in the Main Activity XML

Added the following style to styles.xml:

<style name="AppTheme.NoActionBar" parent="AppTheme">
    <item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
    <item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
</style>

Finally in the Android manifest I added the following theme to the Main Acivity:

android:theme="@style/AppTheme.NoActionBar"

How to align title at layout center in TopAppBar?

With Material2 you have to use the other constructor of TopAppBar that has no pre-defined slots for content, allowing you to customize the layout of content inside.

You can do something like:

val appBarHorizontalPadding = 4.dp
val titleIconModifier = Modifier.fillMaxHeight()
    .width(72.dp - appBarHorizontalPadding)

TopAppBar(
    backgroundColor = Color.Transparent,
    elevation = 0.dp,
    modifier= Modifier.fillMaxWidth()) {

    //TopAppBar Content
    Box(Modifier.height(32.dp)) {

        //Navigation Icon 
        Row(titleIconModifier, verticalAlignment = Alignment.CenterVertically) {                
            CompositionLocalProvider(
                LocalContentAlpha provides ContentAlpha.high,
            ) {
                IconButton(
                    onClick = { },
                    enabled = true,
                ) {
                    Icon(
                        painter = painterResource(id = R.drawable.ic_add_24px),
                        contentDescription = "Back",
                    )
                }
            }
        }

        //Title
        Row(Modifier.fillMaxSize(),
            verticalAlignment = Alignment.CenterVertically) {

            ProvideTextStyle(value = MaterialTheme.typography.h6) {
                CompositionLocalProvider(
                    LocalContentAlpha provides ContentAlpha.high,
                ){
                    Text(
                        modifier = Modifier.fillMaxWidth(),
                        textAlign = TextAlign.Center,
                        maxLines = 1,
                        text = "Hello"
                    )
                }
            }
        }

        //actions
        CompositionLocalProvider(LocalContentAlpha provides ContentAlpha.medium) {
            Row(
                Modifier.fillMaxHeight(),
                horizontalArrangement = Arrangement.End,
                verticalAlignment = Alignment.CenterVertically,
                content = actions
            )
        }
    }
}

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With Material3 you can simply use the CenterAlignedTopAppBar:

CenterAlignedTopAppBar(
    title = { Text("Centered TopAppBar") },
    navigationIcon = {
        IconButton(onClick = { /* doSomething() */ }) {
            Icon(
                imageVector = Icons.Filled.Menu,
                contentDescription = "Localized description"
            )
        }
    }
)

Android - How to center a title (TextView) in a toolbar?

There are a couple of ways to solve your problem. The quickest one would be to change your TextView as follows.

<TextView
            android:id="@+id/toolbar_title"
            android:layout_width="match_parent" // Fill parent
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_gravity="center"
            android:text="Sign Up"
            android:gravity="center" // Make the text center aligned
            android:textColor="#ffffff"
            android:textSize="21dp"
            android:textStyle="bold" />
    </LinearLayout>

This makes sure that your text would cover the entire space next to the icon and center the text within it. You dont even need a LinearLayout for that. It can be removed and it'll still work.

How to set Title in center of Toolbar in fragment

You can put text view inside toolbar like this :

<androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" >
        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/title"
            android:text="Title"
            android:textSize="20dp"
            android:layout_gravity="center"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
    </androidx.appcompat.widget.Toolbar>

and if you want to set the text view text to your app title use this :

TextView t = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.title) ;
t.setText(getTitle()) ;

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The result :

Toolbar title not in center when Back Button is enable

Add a TextView inside the Toolbar & don't forget to set the following attribute inside your TextView.

android:layout_marginRight="?android:attr/actionBarSize"



OR

android:layout_marginEnd="?android:attr/actionBarSize"

code snippet:

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
    android:id="@+id/custom_toolbar"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="?android:attr/actionBarSize"
    android:background="@android:color/holo_red_dark">
    <TextView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="abc"
        android:textColor="@android:color/white"
        android:textSize="20sp"
        android:layout_marginRight="?android:attr/actionBarSize"
        android:gravity="center"/>

</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>

Refer to this tutorial for more information.

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