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Home Icon is not showing next to Hamburger icon in ActionBar

I am using AppCompat library for DrawerLayout. However the action bar is not showing the launcher icon next to hamburger menu icon. I have tried several ways to resolve this issue but none of them worked. Anybody has a clue how to resolve it?

I want to show an image just like here Google+ icon is visible next to hamburger icon.

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Best Regards

Solution

  • The reason appIcon/launcher icon is not appearing in the actionBar is because of the new design guidelines of Material Design (Thanks to CommonsWare for telling). However I have used a much simpler & easier solution - Custom ActionBar.

    Steps:

    1. Create an XML file which follows your design pattern for Action Bar

    2. In Activity:

      LayoutInflater inflater = LayoutInflater.from(this);
inflater.inflate(R.layout.custom_action_bar, null);

getSupportActionBar().setHomeEnabled(true); // for burger icon
getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true); // burger icon related
getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowCustomEnabled(true); // CRUCIAL - for displaying your custom actionbar

getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(true); // false for hiding the title from actoinBar

    Hopefully this will save some ones time.