how to make the bar in the top of the picture (see the link) (drawerbutton,"mes cercles",picture_pen)? by customizing the action bar or i make it manually?
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B6Cz2zvfARSdOHJKSEppSzd6ZHM&usp=sharing
The ActionBar in that screenshot is custom-made. It is not built using Android's ActionBar controls. It appears that it was created using a RelativeLayout with a custom background, 1 button on each side and text in the middle of the layout. You can do this as well, however, it is considered best-practice to use Android's ActionBar, which can be themed partially. (Background, text color, buttons, logo, etc...)
Since Android's ActionBar is relatively new, you should use ActionBarSherlock, which adds compatibility to Android 2.x.
http://actionbarsherlock.com/
You can customize the actionbar in android to a very good extent , give it a solid / gradient background , customize the font face , add buttons , event give to different round corner values, also tabs are available , i suggest that method so you don't need plug-ins
the below two posts might be useful
android developers page / actionbar
Using the Android action bar (ActionBar) - Tutorial - Vogella
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First sry for my amateur question
When we want to make an Actionbar, we can use AppCompat or libs(like ActionBarSherlock & ...), and when we want just add any widget(like Button-ImageView & ...), we have to add a lot of codes...
But we can create vertical layout (height:50dip) in all of Activities and use it as the Actionbar...(It's very simpler than use standard ActionBar)
I mean is: why we shouldn't do this...?
thanks... :)
ActionBar comes with a useful API, which allows you to add an app/menu icon to the left, and title, tabs, and action icons, as well as skinning options via themes, in a way that looks consistent across all your Activities and Fragments.
ActionBar also behaves (mostly) gracefully across different devices formats, keeping icon, title and action items in a uniform layout, while hiding excess action icons into a menu on the right. If you develop your custom implementation, you need to test that it doesn't break across Android versions and devices.
Is there any possible way to center align the action item icons that are shown in action bar of titanium app for android. I have searched a lot of places for this solution but had no luck. I want the action bar to look like the below image. Also tell me the way to not show app title in the action bar.
This is not a Titanium issue.
As you can read in Google's documentation, you won't be able to center anything in the ActionBar. Default (and expected) behaviour is to align action icons on the right (or left if reversed).
I don't recommend it, as it goes against Google's guidelines, but you will be able to center icons if you create a fake ActionBar:
- Remove native ActionBar from any window in your app
- Create a Titanium View that mimics the ActionBar
- Add icons and bind click events.
That's it, you are done.
Screenshots
Background
Graphical tabs started to appear in stock Android application around ICS. However, they are quite different from the traditional tabs (link). Moreover, I have found no related tutorials.
Differences with Traditional Tabs
Graphics instead of text, obviously.
No selection indicator at bottom.
The color of the contents (graphics) indicates the selection instead.
Suspicions
Are they just tabs with an icon but no text, combining together with a suitable theme?
If yes, how to theme the tabs to achieve such effects?
The main difference is that old style tabs were implemented using TabHost and TabWidgets. However, since the introduction of the Action Bar the tabs are implemented as action bar tabs.
You can read about styling the tabs in here.
Basically you can create your own indicator, as well as choose between icons, text etc.
I want to show Action Bar like below.
I have already used this library clickhere
But it takes only two icons on Action Bar. If I add four items, then last two are shown me like menu. I want all in Action bar same as image above.
Is it possible? if yes, then HOW? Can I change Action Bar color or its default style available in Device?
Thanks in Advance.
I recommend you use this:
http://jgilfelt.github.com/android-actionbarstylegenerator/
to style your ActionBar.
If you want all the 4 icons to be there, just add this attribute to all the menu items:
android:showAsAction="always"
hello try this library
it sure help you And you may have to add you own logic to handle this in below 2.3 Android OS and above 3.0 Android OS.
there is many demo sample available like below :
There is no way you can be sure of the number of icons displayed in the action bar. There is a large varierty of Android devices out there and they all have different screen sizes. That's why you have to prioritize the actions available in a menu : the most important will be displayed as actions in the action bars and the others will be displayed in the "menu" : the action overflow.
You should think of actions in a functional way, not a graphical way.
With ref to Image that you attached you should decide which design pattern you want to use in your application, there are many UI patterns available for mobiles, tablets. The image you attached looks like Side Navigation UI pattern. It's better you decide which UI pattern perfect for your app.. then start implementing it with custom action bar libs (if you want action bar in less than Android 3.0 ver) or any other.
Hi I am a newbie to android.I need to know how to design this type of layout using xml they are using imagebuttons in bottom for all layouts
What is the bottom part called Is it Bottombar or tabbar or actionbar or Menubar.
P.S: I want to design on android 2X version. Please dont say refer to developer.android because i didn't find a satisfatory answer
You can use ActionbarSherlock for designing action bars for 2.x android versions. If you want action bar at the bottom, you can use split action bar which is supported by it.