How to add any View (Button, TextView, Spinner) as a menu item to ActionBar using Java in Android Studio?

Question

I want to add any View such as Button, TextView or Spinner to my ActionBar.

How can I achieve this?

An example containing any of the Views will be enough.

Answer 1

If you want to add view in actionbar, you can use toolbar and you can add view in toolbar. For example;

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
            android:id="@+id/toolbar"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            app:popupTheme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light"
            app:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar">

            // Add whatever you want

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