Show multiple lines of title in Android ActionBar
To show multiple lines of title in Android ActionBar, one of the most common solution is to assign some of the text in SubTitle. Here we have another approach: Basically we get the TextView object of the title in ActionBar, set it's max lines attribute to 2: int titleId = Resources.getSystem().getIdentifier("action_bar_title","id","android"); TextView title = (TextView) findViewById(titleId); title .setSingleLine(false); title .setMaxLines(2); title .setTextSize(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_SP, 16); Then we can set a long title to the ActionBar where the text will be displayed as two lines: getActionBar().setTitle("... your long title here ...");