Android toolbar center title and custom font

To use a custom title in your Toolbar all you need to do is remember is that Toolbar is just a fancy ViewGroup so you can add a custom title like so:

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar    android:id="@+id/toolbar_top"    android:layout_height="wrap_content"    android:layout_width="match_parent"    android:minHeight="?android:attr/actionBarSize"    android:background="@color/action_bar_bkgnd"    app:theme="@style/ToolBarTheme" >     <TextView        android:layout_width="wrap_content"        android:layout_height="wrap_content"        android:text="Toolbar Title"        android:layout_gravity="center"        android:id="@+id/toolbar_title" />    </android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>

This means that you can style the TextView however you would like because it's just a regular TextView. So in your activity you can access the title like so:

Toolbar toolbarTop = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar_top);TextView mTitle = (TextView) toolbarTop.findViewById(R.id.toolbar_title);

This's just to help to join all pieces using @MrEngineer13 answer with @Jonik and @Rick Sanchez comments with the right order to help to achieve title centered easly!!

The layout with TextAppearance.AppCompat.Widget.ActionBar.Title :

    <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">        <TextView            android:id="@+id/toolbar_title"            android:layout_width="wrap_content"            android:layout_height="wrap_content"                                  style="@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Widget.ActionBar.Title"            android:layout_gravity="center" />    </android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>

The way to achieve with the right order:

    Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);    TextView mTitle = (TextView) toolbar.findViewById(R.id.toolbar_title);    setSupportActionBar(toolbar);    mTitle.setText(toolbar.getTitle());    getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);

Please don't forget to upvote @MrEngineer13 answer !!!

Here is a sample project ToolbarCenterTitleSample

Hope to help somebody else ;)

The ToolBar title is stylable. Any customization you make has to be made in the theme. I'll give you an example.

Toolbar layout:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar    style="@style/ToolBarStyle.Event"    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"    android:id="@+id/toolbar"    android:layout_width="match_parent"    android:layout_height="wrap_content"    android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"    android:minHeight="@dimen/abc_action_bar_default_height_material" />

Styles:

<style name="ToolBarStyle" parent="ToolBarStyle.Base"/><style name="ToolBarStyle.Base" parent="">    <item name="popupTheme">@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light</item>    <item name="theme">@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar</item></style><style name="ToolBarStyle.Event" parent="ToolBarStyle">    <item name="titleTextAppearance">@style/TextAppearance.Widget.Event.Toolbar.Title</item></style><style name="TextAppearance.Widget.Event.Toolbar.Title" parent="TextAppearance.Widget.AppCompat.Toolbar.Title">    <!--Any text styling can be done here-->    <item name="android:textStyle">normal</item>    <item name="android:textSize">@dimen/event_title_text_size</item></style>