Android Multiline Toolbar Title

I have a Toolbar that when in landscape mode isn’t as wide as usual, but it has more height than usual and for that reason I want to set the title to be multiline (2 lines to be precise) when it is in landscape. I have tried some things where I put a TextView inside of the Toolbar, but when I try to access the TextView to set it’s title (since the the title is variable) I get a NullPointer after using findViewById.

Here is some code of the current situation (without multiline):

@Override
protected void onResume() {
    super.onResume();
    Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar2);
    setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
    getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
    if (getResources().getConfiguration().orientation == Configuration.ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE) {
        Display display = getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay();
        Point size = new Point();
        display.getSize(size);
        int width = (int)( size.x * 0.37);
        int height =  Math.round(size.x * 0.63f * 0.25f);
        RelativeLayout.LayoutParams params = new RelativeLayout.LayoutParams(width,height);
        toolbar.setLayoutParams(params);
    }
    if (executeOnResume) {
        currentProject = getIntent().getParcelableExtra("Project");
        getSupportActionBar().setTitle("This is a pretty long piece of text, I hope it fits");
        // A lot of irrelevant code...
        //...
        //...
    } else { loadStuff();}
}

And here is the toolbar xml:

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
        android:id="@+id/toolbar2"
        android:title="@string/menuLabel1a"
        app:layout_widthPercent="37%"
        app:layout_heightPercent="26%"
        android:gravity="top"
        app:titleTextAppearance="@style/toolbarTitleText"
        android:background="@color/greyLight"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme.AppBarOverlay"
        app:popupTheme="@style/AppTheme.PopupOverlay" />

Answer

Try this :

 <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
    android:id="@+id/toolbar2"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="@dimen/double_height_toolbar"
    android:gravity="top"
    app:titleTextAppearance="@style/toolbarTitleText"
    android:background="@color/greyLight"
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme.AppBarOverlay"
    app:popupTheme="@style/AppTheme.PopupOverlay">

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/product_details_title"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:gravity="top"
            android:title="@string/menuLabel1a"
            android:paddingTop="@dimen/padding_normal"
            style="@android:style/TextAppearance.Holo.Widget.ActionBar.Title.Inverse"
            android:maxLines="2" />

</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>

Other Solution is for ActionBar

The default TextView of the ActionBar does not support line wrapping, and there is no exposed method to set it to wrap. So you can create a flexible layout, like this: action_bar_title_layout.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical">

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/action_bar_title"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:gravity="center_vertical"
    android:ellipsize="end"
    android:maxLines="2"/>

</LinearLayout>

Then set this as the custom layout on your ActionBar:

ActionBar actionBar = getActionBar();
actionBar.setDisplayShowCustomEnabled(true);
actionBar.setCustomView(R.layout.action_bar_title_layout);
((TextView) findViewById(R.id.action_bar_title)).setText(
    "This is a long text title that will wrap to multiple lines, when necessary.");

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