hello, Paulo!

how can I help you today?

Morning Mark

I have an activity with a toolbar. The activitiy contains a fragment that has a toolbar with a searchview. My logs say activity onCreateOptionsMenu is called, followed by fragment onCreateOptionsMenu. But only the activity toolbar displays

am I supposed to include a toolbar in my activity and fragment's xml layout?

usually, you only have one Toolbar per screen, at least on phone-sized displays

whether the activity or the fragment manages the Toolbar is up to you

there is nothing stopping you from trying to show two Toolbars, if you really want

I only want to display 1

then you will need to decide whether you want the activity or the fragment to manage it

my activity retrieves items. If 0 items exist, I don't display a toolbar icon. If at least 1 item exists I display it. Is it better to include a toolbar in my activity and fragment or only in my activity

I cannot really answer that. Do you have many fragments for this activity, or just one?

1

is there a plan to have more fragments? if not, why not just have the activity and get rid of the fragment?

or, if you want to keep the fragment, remove all smarts from the activity and put them in the fragment

basically, I do not see what you are gaining by splitting your logic between an activity and a fragment in this case, where you have just one fragment

my problem is my fragment inflates a searchview but it does not show up if I include a toolbar in my activity. But I dont want my activity to inflate it

it is a tab fragment

I am uncertain what you mean by a "tab fragment"

so the activity decides if there are multiple items. If there are 0 items, do not show a tab fragment. Or a fragment containing a tab layout. If it does, display a tab fragment (fragment using a tab layout) and make sure the toolbar inflates a searchview. So it is an activity containing a fragment containing 2 fragments

I do not know what you are gaining by having that intermediate fragment in there

regardless, I cannot tell you whether your activity or that fragment should manage your Toolbar

pick one, whichever makes you feel more comfortable

legacy reasons

ah

yes but why isnt my tab fragment toolbar displaying

could it be that it *is* displaying, but your two Toolbars are stacked atop of each other on the Z axis?

I dont know. The fragment toolbar is inflated after activity toolbar but the searchview is not displayed so I think the activity toolbar is displayed

you could use the Layout Inspector in Android Studio to confirm what widgets are in your UI -- that would show both Toolbars in the hierarchy

thank you

strange...layout inspector shows ids from my fragment toolbar and even the invisible searchview

but if i remove the toolbar from my activity the searchview is displayed

that suggests that the Toolbars were overlapping on the Z axis

how would you recommend I fix it?

only have one Toolbar, managed by either your activity or your fragment

so remove a toolbar from my activity or fragment

correct, and have the remaining one handle all of the responsibilities

can you explain what my layout inspector is describing? It describes my fragment toolbar so is it overlapping my activity toolbar or is my activity toolbar on top of my fragment toolbar

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I have no way of knowing, since I am not looking at your IDE :-)

yes but it displays ids from my fragment toolbar so I expected it to be fragment over activity. But activity's toolbar is displayed instead.

again, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯