I've been looking around but I can't seem to find out how to implement an action bar that looks like the one in Google maps and Google now. Can anyone give me a link to a documentation/tutorial or at least the name of that type of action bar?
Edit:I've attached a picture of what i want the action bar to look like
Okay I've solved this myself. I hid the default actionbar and used XML to create the custom actionbar(using linearlayout, EditText and Buttons).
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I want to add a search bar functionality top at the action bar like in Play Store app.
EditText should be expanded on click of the search button
How can I achieve this ?
Sorry if my question doesn't show any research effort, however i googled it & didn't find any result.
Thanks in advance
Here what I found https://github.com/Quinny898/PersistentSearch. Voice recognition is also available.
This functionality is called Action View. It allows you to embed widgets into the action bar, and the widgets will substitute the action button when you click it.
Here is the Google's tutorial on how to embed SearchView into an action bar: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/search/search-dialog.html#UsingSearchWidget
I am an intermediate android developer and i have an app that should have a custom designed action bar.I have researched and noticed that skype uses a customised action bar at the top.How did they implement that?I only need pointing to the right direction and the rest i can do myself.
Below is a screenshot of the skype design am talking about.
I am posting this for anyone who might find it helpful.The action bar in android is a bit rigid and doesn't offer a developer much freedom for styling it.Instead style the window title bar to suit your design taste. That's how i achieved my design.
Tutorials on how to do that are all over the internet,and the best thing about it is its really simple.
I want this type of custom title bar
But can anyone tell me what the portion marked with red is made of? I mean are they tabs or image buttons or something else? Please don't give me links on how to apply a custom title bar, I already know it. But I don't know what the red-marked portion is (tabs or image buttons etc) And how can I have that vertical line between Search and Make Video option (in the portion that's marked red) I'm using Gingerbread.
I tried using search engines but how can I search when I don't know the name of the thing I want to search :s
They are called ActionBar Action Items. See: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/actionbar.html\
As for dividers, take a look at: ActionBar MenuItem Divider
You should to use ActionBarSherlock.
http://actionbarsherlock.com/
This is for add actionbar in devices android <3.x.
Hi friends i want to implement the action bar exactly like this(only text), IF i select any of the text, the blue border which is at Balloons comes to that particular text and rest of the things to be normal,How to implement this.please help me.
You probably mean the Navigation tabs.
Everything you need is explained here: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/actionbar.html#Tabs
I would like to add a custom pulldown menu to the actionbar in my project similar to the one that can be found in the google books app (screen).
In this case it represents the complete table of contents of the book.
I tried to follow the guide from the developer site where there is an example with a SpinnerAdapter. But when i use a custom Layout (in my case a RelativeLayout with two TextViews in it) i get an Exception that saying "ArrayAdapter requires the resource ID to be a TextView". So i dismissed my idea with the pulldown but then i found the pulldown in the books app wich looks to me like they used a custom layout as well because it looks to me like two single TextViews in one Layout.
Could anybody please enlighten me if what i want to do is even possible and how?
To me, that looks like the options menu -- that's where options menu items not promoted to the action bar itself appear. Use onCreateOptionsMenu() and add whatever items you want to the Menu.
EDIT:
Sorry, the screenshot was a bit confusing. There are two possibilities that I can see:
This could be a submenu for that action bar item -- I haven't played with submenus and the action bar yet (though this reminds me that I need to do that...)
This could be a PopupMenu tied to a custom action bar View