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FitsSystemWindows with translucent status bar and action bar tabs

In the app I am currently working on, I am working on implementing the translucent status bar with action bar tabs. I hide the ActionBar and only show the tabs.
My problem is that now, the system lets space for the action bar that is not there so FitsSystemWindows is making an error.
How can I fix that?
Thanks

The actual solution that time was quite dirty: I needed to set a custom padding from the top (I think it was 47dp or something like that) to the ViewPager (I think it was the ViewPager).
The real solution has come with AppCompat that fixes such issues: So use AppCompat!

Sherlockaction Bar NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS Changes on orentation?

When changing from a vertical view to a horizontal view, the NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS will automatic changes to a list? May i know how do i fix this to NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS ?

There is nothing to fix, as this is by design. The native action bar does this as well. I filed an issue pointing out this behavior, and was told that the action bar is working as intended. ActionBarSherlock, in turn, aims to mirror Android's native behavior.
If you want tabs that are always tabs, use anything other than action bar tabs, such as:
ViewPager with a tab indicator (PagerTabStrip, TabPagerIndicator from the ViewPagerIndicator library, etc.)
FragmentTabHost
Etc.

Tabs on Main Section of ActionBar

How can i archive a Tab layout like this in Android ? The Tab Navigation is part of that
Main ActionBar and is not below. PS: Im using ActionBar Sherlock
At the moment is just do:
actionBar.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS);
But i want a look like this:
Thanks for help,
Kitesurfer

I don't recommend doing this but you could override the ActionBar and ABS styles:
<bool name="abs__action_bar_embed_tabs">false</bool> //for ActionBarSherlock
<bool name="action_bar_embed_tabs">false</bool> //for default ActionBar

Tab will be displayed in actions bar but only if action bar has space. When you are in landscape mode your tabs will move to action bar because in landscape mode action bar has more room.

From this thread. On the topic of overriding the Action Bar tab functionality.
Jake Wharton
I am obligated to tell you this is probably a Bad Idea™ and I don't recommend it. When you fight the platform you almost always end up losing.
I am inclined to agree about fighting the platform. Instead I opted to abandon the stock tab navigation (from both the android platform and ABS library) and instead wrote a layout that looks basically the same as the tabs, and used it as a custom view, applying it using ActionBar.setCustomView(View) and ActionBar.setDisplayShowCustomEnabled(true) methods.
This uses the ActionBar api in the standard way (ie. Not fighting the platform) and, as is pointed out in that thread, the tab view is simply a LinearLayout.

Try this. This implements a method that will let you select whether you want the tabs in a separate row or in the top row, regardless of screen orientation.
For those who are using this code with the native ActionBar, simply omit the if (actionBar instanceof ActionBarWrapper) and the block underneath it.
Bear in mind, though, that this is somewhat of a hack and might break in future Android versions.

How to change layout on xlarge screens in ActionBarSherlock

I am building an app that uses ActionBarSherlock. I need to change it's layout so there is no padding arround tab icons. Now it looks like that:
| tab1 | tab2 | tab3 | t
But i want it like that:
|tab1|tab2|tab3|tab4|
I've manage to do so on normal size screens by changing that file:
library/res/values/abs__styles.xml
However on my Galaxy S3 still has padding, I tried changing paddings from:
library/res/values-xlarge/abs__dimens.xml
but no effect. I also tried to remove it but still no changes.
edit:
Just for information, I am using only icons but no text for top. All my icons are in drawable-hdpi, could that be a problem? I don't think so because they are not reseized or anything only paddings apper :S
that one is in values.
so I also tried comment out all lines with
<dimen name="abs__action_bar_icon_vertical_padding">0dip</dimen>
but no effect…

If your Galaxy S3 is running ICS or later, ABS will use the native action bar. Any changes you make to the library will have no effect.

Action Bar Sherlock library has some limitations in it.
Limitation 1 : Adjusting of Action menu items in action bar is not possible
Description :
You can have different action menu items in the action bar and also you can set the icons for that items in the action bar. But, adjusting padding between action items, Removing Toast for the action items in the action bar it is impossible. Because Action bar Sherlock uses native action bar. Only look and feel is similar to ICS, but behavior is restricted.
Limitation 2 : Activity Recreation
Description :
When Screen orientation changes, It will recreate activity which is in active. So User Interface will get updated and also it doesn't save the state of the application or activity..
Be Aware of Action Bar Sherlock

I wouldn't use ABS directly for Tab navigation. Consider using a Viewpager and ViewPagerIndicator, which is comatible with ABS (same author), and there you have a lot more control of the appearance . This way the user can also swip left-right to switch tabs.

Does this happen no matter what? I honestly haven't played too much with a native actionbar. What if you do something like an inset drawable? This would kind-of change how it's drawn and may shrink the icon, but might be a solution until you find something better.

android action bar with tabs below the screen

For my application , I'm planning to have a design as this:
http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/7045/problemel.png
-Design needs to have a title bar which is indeed the action bar in android. To overcome the compatibility issues, I used the sherlock action bar which is said to support older versions that dont have action bars. I havent tested yet for the older devices however.
-As far as I know, for navigation , we could rather use tabbed or dropdown list methods. I want to have constant tabs for every page in my app to stand below the page. This reflects the tabbed action bar, however I want it below not just under the action bar. I don't know how but youtube application somehow has it in the middle of the screen (if it's not a custom view). So how do we have tabs positioned in the bottom of the page?
-Also I want to have another menu, whose items depend on the page it's on. But the apperance will be the same for every page. In the picture on the left this menu has buttons as "Bt 1" ,"Bt 2". I dont want to repeat the same xml for every activity page, but I'm not sure how to achieve it without repeating. If the action bar allowed using both navigation tabs and the drop down list, I could put the items of this menu in the dropdown list just as the picture on the right (onto the gray button). But I guess it does not?!
Therefore I have to repeat the menu xml code in every page or is there another smart way?
Any advice will be appreciated.

This can be achieved not with tabs but by adding items to a linear_layout with a gravity of bottom but it is a bad practice as #D_Steve595 stated and should be avoided in android designs.

actionBar.setHomeButtonEnabled(false);
actionBar.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS);
actionBar.setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);
actionBar.setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(false);