shyndman 1ba50c54ca Fixes a broken link to CoordinatorLayout in the documentation.
I opted to link to Android Developers, rather than remove the link entirely.

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<!--docs:
title: "Top App Bars"
layout: detail
section: components
excerpt: "A flexible toolbar designed to provide a typical Material Design experience."
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path: /catalog/app-bar-layout/
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# Top App Bars
![Top App Bars](assets/app-bars.svg)
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`AppBarLayout` is a ViewGroup, most commonly used to wrap a `Toolbar`, that provides
many of the Material Design features and interactions for **Top App Bars**, namely
responsiveness to scrolling.
## Design & API Documentation
* [Material Design guidelines: App
Bars](https://material.io/guidelines/layout/structure.html#structure-app-bar)
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* [Material Design guidelines: Scrolling
techniques](https://material.io/guidelines/patterns/scrolling-techniques.html)
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* [Class
definition](https://github.com/material-components/material-components-android/tree/master/lib/java/android/support/design/widget/AppBarLayout.java)
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* [Class
overview](https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/design/widget/AppBarLayout.html)
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As a container for Toolbars, and other views, it works with
[CoordinatorLayout](https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/design/widget/CoordinatorLayout.html)
in order to respond to scrolling techniques. `AppBarLayout` depends heavily on
being used as a direct child of the CoordinatorLayout and reacts to a sibling
that supports scrolling (e.g.
[NestedScrollView](https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v4/widget/NestedScrollView.html),
[RecyclerView](https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v7/widget/RecyclerView.html)).
Flags are added to each child of the `AppBarLayout` to control how they will
respond to scrolling. These are interpreted by the `AppBarLayout.LayoutParams`.
**Available flags are:**
* [enterAlways](https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/design/widget/AppBarLayout.LayoutParams.html#SCROLL_FLAG_ENTER_ALWAYS)
* [enterAlwaysCollapsed](https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/design/widget/AppBarLayout.LayoutParams.html#SCROLL_FLAG_ENTER_ALWAYS_COLLAPSED)
* [exitUntilCollapsed](https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/design/widget/AppBarLayout.LayoutParams.html#SCROLL_FLAG_EXIT_UNTIL_COLLAPSED)
* [scroll](https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/design/widget/AppBarLayout.LayoutParams.html#SCROLL_FLAG_SCROLL)
* [snap](https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/design/widget/AppBarLayout.LayoutParams.html#SCROLL_FLAG_SNAP)
* [snapMargins](https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/design/widget/AppBarLayout.LayoutParams.html#SCROLL_FLAG_SNAP_MARGINS)
Views using the scroll flag should be declared and visually positioned before
other views in the `AppBarLayout`. This ensures that they are able to exit at the
top of the screen, leaving behind fixed, or pinned, elements.
## Related Concepts
The Top App Bar is a way of referencing a specific type of *Toolbar*. It's not a
separate Android class. This UI element is often used to provide branding for
the app as well as a place to handle common actions like navigation, search, and
menus. These are accessible via text or buttons in the Toolbar. A Toolbar that
provides some of these features is often referred to as the Top App Bar. They
are programmatically identical and use the Toolbar class.
The Top App Bar was previously termed *action bar*, and there are methods that
utilize this name (e.g. [getSupportActionBar](https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v7/app/AppCompatActivity.html#getSupportActionBar())).
Other than use of the action bar APIs, references to this prominent Toolbar
element should be *Top App Bar*.
A CollapsingToolbarLayout is often used as a wrapper around the Toolbar to
provide additional UI features in relation to scrolling.
* [App bar](https://material.io/guidelines/layout/structure.html#structure-app-bar)
* [Toolbars](https://material.io/guidelines/components/toolbars.html#toolbars-usage)
* [CollapsingToolbarLayout](CollapsingToolbarLayout.md)