How change distance between icon and title in ActionBarActivity

Question

I use android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar in my app.

I can set icon by getSupportActionBar().setIcon(). And set title text by toolbar.setTitle().

But distance between icon and title is 0 as on pic:

How I can change distance between icon and title programatically (without custom ImageView and TextView inside Toolbar)?

Answer 1

A simple solution is adding app:titleMarginStart in the xml Toolbar declaration

Here is an example:

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
    android:id="@+id/toolbar"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
    android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
    app:popupTheme="@style/AppTheme.PopupOverlay"
    app:titleMarginStart="32dp"/>