android-actionbar – Page 18

Difference between ActionBarSherlock and ActionBar Compatibility

November 18, 2022 by Tarik

ActionBarSherlock vs ActionBarCompat: I Just want to put few code difference between ActionBarSherlock vs ActionBarCompat Lib We can migrate some apps from ActionBarSherlock to ActionBarCompat: steps: Import AppCompat project. Replace SherlockFragmentActivity with ActionBarActivity. Replace SherlockFragment with Fragment. Change Menu, MenuItem and getSupportMenuInflater() references. Modify the way you get Action Views. mSearchView = (SearchView)MenuItemCompat.getActionView(mSearchItem) Modify your … Read more

How to force use of overflow menu on devices with menu button

November 15, 2022 by Tarik

You can also use this little hack here: try { ViewConfiguration config = ViewConfiguration.get(this); Field menuKeyField = ViewConfiguration.class.getDeclaredField(“sHasPermanentMenuKey”); if (menuKeyField != null) { menuKeyField.setAccessible(true); menuKeyField.setBoolean(config, false); } } catch (Exception ignored) { } Good place to put it would be the onCreate-Method of your Application class. It will force the App to show the overflow … Read more

Switching between Android Navigation Drawer image and Up caret when using fragments

October 24, 2022 by Tarik

It’s easy as 1-2-3. If you want to achieve: 1) Drawer Indicator – when no fragments are in the Back Stack or the Drawer is opened 2) Arrow – when some Fragments are in the Back Stack private FragmentManager.OnBackStackChangedListener mOnBackStackChangedListener = new FragmentManager.OnBackStackChangedListener() { @Override public void onBackStackChanged() { syncActionBarArrowState(); } }; @Override protected void … Read more

getActionBar() returns null

October 21, 2022 by Tarik

Can use getSupportActionBar() instead of getActionBar() method.

Display back button on action bar

October 17, 2022 by Tarik

well this is simple one to show back button actionBar.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true); and then you can custom the back event at onOptionsItemSelected case android.R.id.home: this.finish(); return true;

Action bar navigation modes are deprecated in Android L

October 16, 2022 by Tarik

The new Android Design Support Library adds TabLayout, providing a tab implementation that matches the material design guidelines for tabs. A complete walkthrough of how to implement Tabs and ViewPager can be found in this video Now deprecated: The PagerTabStrip is part of the support library (and has been for some time) and serves as … Read more

How to get the ActionBar height?

October 14, 2022 by Tarik

While @birdy’s answer is an option if you want to explicitly control the ActionBar size, there is a way to pull it up without locking the size that I found in support documentation. It’s a little awkward but it’s worked for me. You’ll need a context, this example would be valid in an Activity. // … Read more

Remove shadow below actionbar

October 12, 2022 by Tarik

What is the style item to make it disappear? In order to remove the shadow add this to your app theme: <style name=”MyAppTheme” parent=”android:Theme.Holo.Light”> <item name=”android:windowContentOverlay”>@null</item> </style> UPDATE: As @Quinny898 stated, on Android 5.0 this has changed, you have to call setElevation(0) on your action bar. Note that if you’re using the support library you … Read more