Dialog themed activity with action bar - android

In a v3 android application, is it possible for an activity that has a dialog theme (e.g.: Theme.Holo.Dialog) to have an action bar? I tried adjusting the windowIsFloating Attribute, but that caused an exception along the lines of "actionbarimpl not compatible", indicating that the current dialog theme does not support action bars?
It should be possible as several applications on the Samsung Galaxy Tab have dialogs with action bars.
Thanks.

The Dialog Theme wasn't designed to display an ActionBar.
Read this for more information.
When using a Dialog you want the user to choose between different options and make some decisions. I don't know what your Use-Case is but you better change your UI-Design so that you can manage your use-case with another solution. A solution Android was designed for.
If you really want to use a Dialog with a ActionBar, you can create your own by using a
Custom Dialog with a custom layout and build a ActionBar clone-layout.

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Showing dialog as fullscreen

I am trying to get a fullscreen dialog on smaller devices and normal dialog on larger devices.
From Android docs: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/dialogs.html
Showing an activity as a dialog on large screens
Instead of showing a dialog as a fullscreen UI when on small screens,
you can accomplish the same result by showing an Activity as a dialog
when on large screens. Which approach you choose depends on your app
design, but showing an activity as a dialog is often useful when your
app is already designed for small screens and you'd like to improve
the experience on tablets by showing a short-lived activity as a
dialog.
To show an activity as a dialog only when on large screens, apply the
Theme.Holo.DialogWhenLarge theme to the manifest element:
For more information about styling your activities with themes, see
the Styles and Themes guide.
So instead of a real dialog I have an activity. That activity looks great on a phone. Most important part is that the activity has an action bar with a menu button.
When I launch the activity on a larger device the activity does appear as a dialog, however the action bar is removed, along with the menu item that lived in the action bar.
Here is the style I am using:
<style name="dialog_theme" parent="#style/Theme.AppCompat.DialogWhenLarge">
</style>
Dialog's do not support action bars....bummer.
BUT, dialog's do support toolbars. I was able to user a toolbar to get a consistent look and feel across the full screen activity and the activity shown as a dialog.

Android - Action Bar Style

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.

Android Action Bar : App Icon & Title

Is it possible to use fragment tabs on action bar with the Theme.Holo.NoActionBar theme?
I mean... I already use this theme on my layouts but apparently it is overriden since the fragments have to show up in the action bar?
What I wanted to achieve is to actually get rid of the Title and App Icon over the fragment tabs. Something similar to the Google Music app.
Is this possible?
What I wanted to achieve is to actually get rid of the Title and App Icon over the fragment tabs. Something similar to the Google Music app.
Try calling setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(false) and setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false) on your ActionBar, and leave the theme alone.
You can style the action bar based on your needs. I'm quite certain you can also remove the app icon and title from there. Using a NoActionbar theme by default and then recreating the action bar on your own kinda defeats the purpose of the action bar. I suggest you use a theme with action bar and then style the bar according to your needs. This page has a decent implementation.

Make activity match current system dialog?

I'd like to be able to create an Activity that matches a default system Dialog. So in Android 2.2, it'll look like a Dialog for that version, in 2.3 it'll look like a Dialog for 2.3, etc.
The usual answer starts off with set android:theme="#android:style/Theme.Dialog" in the Activity manifest. However, that just gives you a floating box with unstyled text. What's missing is a title over a title bar, the dialog text, and the dialog buttons---all styled to match a system Dialog. What system styles should I use?
For example, I found TextAppearance_DialogWindowTitle in R.style. This gives you the text size for the title. Still missing is styling the title background, the buttons, etc.. Any ideas? Android style and theme documentation is sorely lacking.
I would just use the dialog builder except that I need to use a custom icon, so I would be back to square one styling a custom dialog....

How to customize the title bar of application?

How do you customize the title bar in android. Like adding a back button to it?
You might want to check out the greendroid library, which let's you add buttons to the title bar (among other nice things): http://android.cyrilmottier.com/?p=240 and https://github.com/cyrilmottier/GreenDroid
The lib has many other features as well (QuickActionBar). This needs some more work though (subclasses of Activity etc.)

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