Expand/Collapse Lollipop toolbar animation (Telegram app)

Edit :

Since the release of the Android Design support library, there’s an easier solution. Check joaquin’s answer

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Here’s how I did it, there probably are many other solutions but this one worked for me.

1. First of all, you have to use a Toolbar with a transparent background. The expanding & collapsing Toolbar is actually a fake one that’s under the transparent Toolbar. (you can see on the first screenshot below – the one with the margins – that this is also how they did it in Telegram).

   We only keep the actual Toolbar for the NavigationIcon and the overflow MenuItem.

   

2. Everything that’s in the red rectangle on the second screenshot (ie the fake Toolbar and the FloatingActionButton) is actually a header that you add to the settings ListView (or ScrollView).

   So you have to create a layout for this header in a separate file that could look like this :

    <!-- The headerView layout. Includes the fake Toolbar & the FloatingActionButton -->
   
    <FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
       android:layout_width="match_parent"
       android:layout_height="wrap_content">
   
       <RelativeLayout
           android:id="@+id/header_container"
           android:layout_width="match_parent"
           android:layout_height="@dimen/header_height"
           android:layout_marginBottom="3dp"
           android:background="@android:color/holo_blue_dark">
   
           <RelativeLayout
               android:id="@+id/header_infos_container"
               android:layout_width="match_parent"
               android:layout_height="wrap_content"
               android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
               android:padding="16dp">
   
               <ImageView
                   android:id="@+id/header_picture"
                   android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                   android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                   android:layout_centerVertical="true"
                   android:layout_marginRight="8dp"
                   android:src="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27070079/@android:drawable/ic_dialog_info" />
   
               <TextView
                   android:id="@+id/header_title"
                   style="@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Title"
                   android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                   android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                   android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/header_picture"
                   android:text="Toolbar Title"
                   android:textColor="@android:color/white" />
   
               <TextView
                   android:id="@+id/header_subtitle"
                   style="@style/TextAppearance.AppCompat.Subhead"
                   android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                   android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                   android:layout_below="@+id/header_title"
                   android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/header_picture"
                   android:text="Toolbar Subtitle"
                   android:textColor="@android:color/white" />
   
           </RelativeLayout>
       </RelativeLayout>
   
       <FloatingActionButton
           android:id="@+id/header_fab"
           android:layout_width="wrap_content"
           android:layout_height="wrap_content"
           android:layout_gravity="bottom|right"
           android:layout_margin="10dp"
           android:src="@drawable/ic_open_in_browser"/>
   
   </FrameLayout>
   

   (Note that you can use negative margins/padding for the fab to be straddling on 2 Views)

3. Now comes the interesting part. In order to animate the expansion of our fake Toolbar, we implement the ListView onScrollListener.

   // The height of your fully expanded header view (same than in the xml layout)
   int headerHeight = getResources().getDimensionPixelSize(R.dimen.header_height);
   // The height of your fully collapsed header view. Actually the Toolbar height (56dp)
   int minHeaderHeight = getResources().getDimensionPixelSize(R.dimen.action_bar_height);
   // The left margin of the Toolbar title (according to specs, 72dp)
   int toolbarTitleLeftMargin = getResources().getDimensionPixelSize(R.dimen.toolbar_left_margin);
   // Added after edit
   int minHeaderTranslation;
   
   private ListView listView;
   
   // Header views
   private View headerView;
   private RelativeLayout headerContainer;
   private TextView headerTitle;
   private TextView headerSubtitle;
   private FloatingActionButton headerFab;
   
   
   @Override
   public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState)
   {
       View rootView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.listview_fragment, container, false);
       listView = rootView.findViewById(R.id.listview);
   
       // Init the headerHeight and minHeaderTranslation values
   
       headerHeight = getResources().getDimensionPixelSize(R.dimen.header_height);
       minHeaderTranslation = -headerHeight + 
           getResources().getDimensionPixelOffset(R.dimen.action_bar_height);
   
       // Inflate your header view
       headerView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.header_view, listview, false);
   
       // Retrieve the header views
       headerContainer = (RelativeLayout) headerView.findViewById(R.id.header_container);
       headerTitle = (TextView) headerView.findViewById(R.id.header_title);
       headerSubtitle = (TextView) headerView.findViewById(R.id.header_subtitle);
       headerFab = (TextView) headerView.findViewById(R.id.header_fab);;
   
       // Add the headerView to your listView
       listView.addHeaderView(headerView, null, false);
   
       // Set the onScrollListener
       listView.setOnScrollListener(this);        
   
       // ...
   
       return rootView;
   }
   
   @Override
   public void onScrollStateChanged(AbsListView view, int scrollState)
   {
       // Do nothing
   }
   
   
   @Override
   public void onScroll(AbsListView view, int firstVisibleItem, int visibleItemCount, int totalItemCount)
   {
       Integer scrollY = getScrollY(view);
   
       // This will collapse the header when scrolling, until its height reaches
       // the toolbar height
       headerView.setTranslationY(Math.max(0, scrollY + minHeaderTranslation));
   
       // Scroll ratio (0 <= ratio <= 1). 
       // The ratio value is 0 when the header is completely expanded, 
       // 1 when it is completely collapsed
       float offset = 1 - Math.max(
           (float) (-minHeaderTranslation - scrollY) / -minHeaderTranslation, 0f);
   
   
       // Now that we have this ratio, we only have to apply translations, scales,
       // alpha, etc. to the header views
   
       // For instance, this will move the toolbar title & subtitle on the X axis 
       // from its original position when the ListView will be completely scrolled
       // down, to the Toolbar title position when it will be scrolled up.
       headerTitle.setTranslationX(toolbarTitleLeftMargin * offset);
       headerSubtitle.setTranslationX(toolbarTitleLeftMargin * offset);
   
       // Or we can make the FAB disappear when the ListView is scrolled 
       headerFab.setAlpha(1 - offset);
   }
   
   
   // Method that allows us to get the scroll Y position of the ListView
   public int getScrollY(AbsListView view)
   {
       View c = view.getChildAt(0);
   
       if (c == null)
           return 0;
   
       int firstVisiblePosition = view.getFirstVisiblePosition();
       int top = c.getTop();
   
       int headerHeight = 0;
       if (firstVisiblePosition >= 1)
           headerHeight = this.headerHeight;
   
       return -top + firstVisiblePosition * c.getHeight() + headerHeight;
   }
   

Note that there are some parts of this code I didn’t test, so feel free to highlight mistakes. But overall, I’m know that this solution works, even though I’m sure it can be improved.

EDIT 2:

There were some mistakes in the code above (that I didn’t test until today…), so I changed a few lines to make it work :

1. I introduced another variable, minHeaderTranslation, which replaced minHeaderHeight;

2. I changed the Y translation value applied to the header View from :

       headerView.setTranslationY(Math.max(-scrollY, minHeaderTranslation));
   

   to :

       headerView.setTranslationY(Math.max(0, scrollY + minHeaderTranslation));
   

   Previous expression wasn’t working at all, I’m sorry about that…

3. The ratio calculation also changed, so that it now evolves from the bottom the toolbar (instead of the top of the screen) to the full expanded header.