I'm using ActionBarCompat in my project.
The problem I have now is that I need a spinner to show in the actionbar. A standard ActionBar can use .setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_LIST) but this is unavailable in the action bar compat code.
Is there a way around this? What are other options (besides a layout redesign.)
There is no way to do this in the code provided by ActionBarCompat.
It provides an ActionBar in it's most basic form for use by all platforms.
A better alternative is useing ActionBarSherlock. The setup very similar and more functionality is available out of the box.
http://actionbarsherlock.com/
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I am developing an android app, where I want to put action bar for phones below API 11.
I am following the below link.
http://hmkcode.com/add-actionbar-to-android-2-3-x/
I am making use of the v7 support library, and I am able to get the actionbar. But, the problem is I want to add a navigational listener or tab listener to the action bar. How is it possible.
Please help! Thanks in Advance.
You should use ActionBarSherlock. It is an excellent library of tools that allow you to use Action Bars in older phones and is widely used. The catch is that all your Activities will need to extend SherlockActivity instead of Activity and you have to be careful to call methods like getSherlockActivity() in Fragments instead of getActivity().
I prefer HoloEverywhere library
It allows much more than ActionBarSherlock, but makes your app ~3Mb bigger in size
I am sure you have not seen this
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/actionbar.html
I want to get two action bars in my application, like this:
Is it possible? If yes, how to implement it? It also must be working on Android 2.x.
Is it possible? If yes, how to implement it? It also must be working
on Android 2.x.
Yes this is possible. This is a normal ActionBar with a Spinner, a few Actions and an overflow icon(actually two, but you can only have one, so that might be almost impossible).
The ActionBar on the bottom is a split ActionBar.
You can use ActionBarSherlock for backwards compatibility.
I have a pretty simple question about the Android ActionBar... is this intended to be present in the app, to use as a sort of header, or is it only intended to show when the user hits the setting button on the device?
I'm trying to implement a menu that is always present in the app, like a logo for branding, and some other actions, like a search icon and perhaps a map icon to see the map functionality. Any suggestions? Also see this post here
The ActionBar is always displayed. Check out the Android Developer Site for more information on the ActionBar UI patterns and usage.
You can use the excellent ActionBarSherlock library to provide an ActionBar on 2.x devices.
The ActionBar sounds perfect for the branding/icons you want. You would use your logo as the icon, and then have Action Items for Search and Map functionality.
Have you put your android:targetSdkVersion to 11 or more ? ActionBar is available only for Honeycomb and ICS :)
Is there any way to change the content of the title bar when it's in Tab(If it wasn't in tab I would have done it but tried couldn't find any solution). E.g. Suppose I have created a custom title bar with few buttons on it, and now I want to change the content of the title bar(Drawables, Title and the functionality).
It would be great if someone could tell me if i can implement Action bar in versions below 3.0 ? I am creating this project in 2.1 (I'd like to create action bar from scratch).
or if there's any way beside inserting an image and placing buttons on it(This methodology would be good enough)?
If you're just looking to implement the ActionBar paradigm in pre-Honeycomb versions of Android, I suggest you look into using the ActionBarSherlock library.
The library will automatically use the native action bar when
available or will automatically wrap a custom implementation around
your layouts. This allows you to easily develop an application with an
action bar for every version of Android back through 1.6.
twaddington and pjco's answers are correct, you need to use ActionBarSherlock if you want to be compatible with every SDK levels.
I want to add you can have a custom actionbar or a custom view for your actionbar tabs using the method actionbar.setCustomView(view) or tab.setCustomView(view)
Anyway, play with ActionBarSherlock demos, there are a few cool use cases.
The other option worth looking at is ActionBarCompat, which I think comes with the SDK 14 api demos. However, ActionBarSherlock seems to support many more features so that may be the better solution.
I am creating an app where i would like to use both the drop down list navigation and tab navigation on an actionbar. But i can not figure out how to do this without implementing the actionbar as a custom view which would mess up a lot of the nice built in features.
So what is the best way to get both of these navigation modes at the same time?
Android will not build both of these for you. You can use the ViewPagerIndicator library to make an emulated tab bar for a ViewPager, which is probably the easiest way to do this.