Android Chrome Custom Tab Customizable

in how far is the chrome custom tab customizable? We are programming a app which is loading a webview in a fragment with an own header (action bar) and footer. Is custom tab loadin

Solution 1:

The Custom Tabs Activity takes the whole screen, but it's is possible to customize the Toolbar (header) and, on most recent versions, to add a Bottom Toolbar (footer).

Here's a list of customizations possible with Custom Tabs:

• Custom Toolbar color
• Adding an Action button to the Toolbar
• Adding Menu Items to the overflow menu
• Custom Back button icon
• Custom start/exit animations

In the version 23.2.0 of the Custom Tabs support library, the following customizations have been added:

• Adding up to 5 Action buttons to a bottom toolbar
• Custom color for the bottom toolbar
• Adding a default Share action to the overflow menu.

There are samples on how to implement each of those customizations on the Github Demo