I'm working with split action bar for my project, i would like to know is it possible to customize the items position in split action bar (i.e) i want some of the menu items in top of the action bar and some of them bottom of the action bar dynamically as my wish is it possible ?
Thanks in advance,
It is not possible to use normal actions on the top and split ActionBar at the same time. There is a trick you can use that is described below:
How to display both normal and split ActionBar?
But it is an old question and ActionBar is deprecated. You can now use multiple Toolbar objects instead of ActionBar. That way you can keep one of them at the bottom and add whatever actions you want to it.
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I am using Android Tab Navigation using Combat Action Bar. I have implemented Custom Action Bar.
Now i want to add different buttons to Action Bar According to tabs. i want some thing like that.
In some fragment i need this button, while in other i need different button.
Any Help Will be Appreciated.
Thanks
you can use custom action bar to add number of buttons.
Try This:-
Link Here: http://www.djbp.co.uk/android-actionbar-adding-buttons/
I want to have two menus in my android app. First one is search icon in ActionBar (at the top) and second is a TextView and pop up item at the bottom. How to achieve it? I tried android:uiOptions="splitActionBarWhenNarrow" but it moves all the menu items to bottom. Please help!
Android has not made this possible on purpose, the action bar at the bottom (called the split action bar) only has the purpose of giving extra room for actions if it is necessary (hence the uiOptions name "splitActionBarWhenNarrow").
You could still get the desired result by manually creating a split action bar by adding a LinearLayout at the bottom of your View, and using a PopupMenu for the menu.
I've made an ActionBar with action ActionBarSherlock and I've spitted it with
android:uiOptions="splitActionBarWhenNarrow"
How can I position the items now? All my items are at the bottom ActionBar, I want some at the top and some at the bottom ...
As per the ActionBar guide:
Split action bar provides a separate bar at the bottom of the screen to display all action items when the activity is running on a narrow screen (such as a portrait-oriented handset).
If you want items on both the top ActionBar and buttons along the bottom, then you should use a regular ActionBar and add the buttons as a custom layout (perhaps using the android.R.attr.borderlessButtonStyle). However, you will not get the auto-collapsing into a single ActionBar on larger devices, but that can easily be done by creating a menu/layout specifically for wider devices using a selector like layout-w480dp on v14+ devices.
I have three actions with the property SHOW_AS_ACTION_ALWAYS since I want to have the three of them always showing. However one of them has a collapse action view, and I wan't to hide the other two to have the full action bar for my layout when I click the action. Is there any way to do this?
This only seems to work if I use SHOW_AS_ACTION_IF_ROOM but this way I only get two items on the action bar instead of three.
Is there a way to center Action Items on the Action Bar?
Something like this pulse.
No. The ActionBar doesn't support images in the middle, and I assume Pulse isn't using the real ActionBar.
The ActionBar is a great user interface component - work WITH IT, not against it.
http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/actionbar.html
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/actionbar.html