Toolbar was introduced in Android Lollipop, API 21 release and is the spiritual successor of the ActionBar. It’s a ViewGroup that can be placed anywhere in your XML layouts. Toolbar’s appearance and behavior can be more easily customized than the ActionBar. Toolbar works well with apps targeted to API 21 and above.

How do I use Android toolbar?

Android Toolbar for AppCompatActivity

1. Step 1: Check Gradle dependencies. Open your build.gradle (Module:app) for your project and make sure you have a following dependency:
2. Step 2: Modify your layout.xml file and add a new style. …
3. Step 3: Add a menu for the toolbar. …
4. Step 4: Add toolbar to the activity. …
5. Step 5: Inflate (Add) the menu to the toolbar.

3 февр. 2016 г.

What is a toolbar in Android Studio?

In Android Toolbar is similar to an ActionBar(now called as App Bars). Toolbar is a Viewgroup that can be placed at anywhere in the Layout. We can easily replace an ActionBar with Toolbar.