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I’m learning to use the toolbar on Android development and saw that the use of it is very similar to other views, I saw that you can put it without being at the top, that you can put items inside it (button for example), like a layout, then hit the doubt, I can use a LinearLayout (or other) as a toolbar?
Put it on top, set colors, put items, etc... What are the benefits of using Toolbar even?
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Toolbar is indeed a type of View, more properly a type of Viewgroup:
java.lang.Object
↳ android.view.View
↳ android.view.ViewGroup
↳ android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
As you can see in his hierarchy, he inherits the characteristics of View and Viewgroup.
That is why it is possible to do all that you enumerate in the question.
However, Toolbar is much more than a Viewgroup.
He adds other features in order to be a alternative to Actionbar.
Among them,
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But in a Layout (like Linear by example, which is what I use most) it is not possible to do all this? If so, why use a Toolbar? by already being created properly for this and being simpler?
– underfilho
Yes it is possible. At the bottom is what was done by those who made the Toolbar, started from a Viewgroup. What is the reason for you to do what is already done?
– ramaral
Oh I understood then, thank you very much there, it was a simple doubt, but now it’s all ok, now I go back to the codes!
– underfilho