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ActionBar with SearchView and tabs

I need to show the following ActionBar:
Does Android support it, or do I need to do a custom layout and set it to the ActionBar?

Android, Tabs without Actionbar

This question has been asked (for example, here Using ViewPager with Tabs without actionBar), however the answer there doesn't work. There's some links to Swipey but unfortunately the link is broken too.
The example from Android site EffectiveNavigation uses Actionbar to host the tab fragment, so obviously if I set a .NoActionBar theme, then there's no host. Any different way? Thanks.
Update screenshot of what I want to create, at the top, there's no actionbar.
Update 2 this is from the google example, there's an actionbar on top (titled "Effective navigation), which I want to get rid of

Solution of your problem is already given in http://developer.android.com/
To disableAction-bar Icon and Title, you must do two things:
setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(false); // hides action bar icon
setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false); // hides action bar title
Follow The Steps given in Using split action bar
Write Following Code in OnCreate()
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.navigation_drawer);
getActionBar().setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(false); // hides action bar icon
getActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false); // hides action bar title
//rest of your code...
}
After Android updated Actionbar to Toolbar there are many changes in Actionbar Tabs.
Please follow below links to create swipable tabs in Andoid.
Design Structure :
Tabs Design Guidelines
Some of the very useful links are below. Please refer to them.
Download sample zip from below link
http://developer.android.com/samples/SlidingTabsBasic/index.html
Or Refer these links
http://www.android4devs.com/2015/01/how-to-make-material-design-sliding-tabs.html
http://www.exoguru.com/android/material-design/navigation/android-sliding-tabs-with-material-design.html
http://www.truiton.com/2015/06/android-tabs-example-fragments-viewpager/
https://guides.codepath.com/android/Google-Play-Style-Tabs-using-TabLayout
This may help you...

You can:
Use a ViewPager with a PagerTabStrip
Use a ViewPager with the TabPageIndicator class from the ViewPagerIndicator library
Use a ViewPager with other third-party tab indicators (e.g., in the "View Pagers" category at the Android Arsenal)
Use a ViewPager and design your own tabbed indicator
Use a FragmentTabHost and skip the swiping part

Along with
getActionBar().setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(false);
getActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);
Use this as well
getActionBar().setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS);

Remove or disable ActionBar Hide animation?

I have a custom video player,when user enters into fullscreen i am hiding actionbar but due to its animations its being delayed.
how to avoid it in normal ActionBar or SherlockActionBar ?

I recommend to make use of Material Design with the new support library. By doing so you can replace your ActionBar with a Toolbar which gives you a lot more control. By using the Toolbar you can achieve your goal with the setVisibility() method.

Adding headers and footer in actionbar tabs

Hi everyone I am working currently a view which need to have a view above the tabs of the actionbar or more like below the action bar itself, and a fixed footer between the tabs.
But I have not find a way to make this behaviour other than adding the footer in each fragment and the view that I want below the tabs.
Is there a way to put headers(above) and footer(below) tabs using the actionbar?
PD. I am using Sherlock actionbar

Something inbetween the Actionbar and the Actionbar tabs? AFAIK it's not possible. ABS is only used in pre HC versions. On ICS+ the default ActionBar gets used. Therefore even if you can customize the ABS Actionbar you most likely can't override the default Actionbar on ICS+.

Android ActionBar backbutton and tabs

I want to create an ActionBar and a tabbed navigation like the google+ app.
I used this example as a starting point and now I have a great actionbar:
http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/ActionBarCompat/index.html
I've also included a ViewPager and a TabHost to have tabs and scrolling left/right Fragments.
What i need is to show the back arrow in version prior to honeycomb.
If I set getActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true), the arrow is automatically show in version >= honeycomb.
How can I do that in version prior to honey?
What I also want to have is Tabs like the google+ app.
This is how is my tab bar looks:
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...and this is what i want:
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I can't find any example to style tab bars like that one.

I would recommend you the ActionBarSherlock for ActionBar compatibility with Android <3. It is a better implementation that the example offered in the developers page.
Using this package, the back arrow will appear when you add to your activity the following line.
getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
Regarding the Google+ tabs, I have found the widget ViewFlow very useful and looking exactly the same. Moreover, you don't have any backward compatibility issues. Have a look to the CircleFlowIndicator example.

You can use ActionBarSherlock and a ViewPager with ViewPagerIndicator to achieve the desired look. These libraries also work pre ICS.
As miguel.rodelas suggested, use getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true) for the home arrow. In onOptionsItemSelected you can catch it by the id android.R.id.home.

ActionBar actionBar = getActionBar();
actionBar.setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(false);
actionBar.setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);
//use your custom xml view here
View actionBarView = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.action_bar_custom_view, null);
actionBar.setCustomView(actionBarView);
actionBar.setDisplayOptions(ActionBar.DISPLAY_SHOW_CUSTOM);
//your logic for click listner
setListenerForActionBarCustomView(actionBarView);

As stated, download the ActionBarSherlock and import it as a library here
https://api.github.com/repos/JakeWharton/ActionBarSherlock/zipball/4.2.0
Instead of using getActionBar use getSupportActionBar
Download the support library
Instead of Activity, extend your class as SherlockActivity
Same with fragments, use SherlockFragment
Then just copy your code, should work perfectly.