Custom title with image

It's possible to set your own custom title layout, however the order of execution matters. You must do things in this order:

requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_CUSTOM_TITLE);setContentView(R.layout.my_layout);getWindow().setFeatureInt(Window.FEATURE_CUSTOM_TITLE, R.layout.my_custom_title);

Additionally, you may need to increase the size of the title; if you don't, then the bottom of your custom layout may just be covered up by your Activity. You can change the size by adding a theme that specifies the title's size. This would go into a values XML file:

<resources>    <style name="LargeTitleTheme">        <item name="android:windowTitleSize">40dip</item>    </style></resources>

Then you'd need to set the theme for your Activity (or Application, if you want the entire application to have this custom title bar) in AndroidManifest.xml:

<activity android:name=".MyCustomTitleActivity" android:theme="@style/LargeTitleTheme" />

You could always use:

requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);

And then create your own title bar inside your Activity's View.

Are you sure that you need to use an image in the title rather than just combining it as part of your background image and leaving the title blank? Using a NinePatch image I would expect that you would be able to achieve a result that would look good on regardless of the device?