Android How to position Items in a Toolbar - android-layout

Question

I understand the one of the advantages of the toolbar over the action bar is the ability to position and add items. However I cannot figure out how to position these items on the toolbar where I would like to. I have 6 items and i want three of the items aligned to the left a space in the middle and the other three aligned to the right.

Answer 1

Use a Space widget for this.
Add a LinearLayout inside your Toolbar. I am adding 6 TextViews inside this LinearLayout. You can, of course, change it according to your requirement.
Now to align 3 of the child views to the left and 3 to the right simply add a android.support.v4.widget.Space widget after the third child view and set it's layout_weight property to 1.
Here's the entire toolbar layout
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:text="item1"
android:padding="2dp"/>
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:text="item2"
android:padding="2dp"/>
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:text="item3"
android:padding="2dp"/>
<android.support.v4.widget.Space
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_weight="1"/>
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:text="item4"
android:padding="2dp"/>
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:text="item5"
android:padding="2dp"/>
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:text="item6"
android:padding="2dp"/>
</LinearLayout>
</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>
Hope this works as required for you.