Action bar does not show

Remove your theme for your actionbar activity in androidManifest file. Now it will work… <application android:allowBackup=”true” android:icon=”@drawable/tasktodo” android:label=”@string/app_name” > Don’t add any theme in your application manifest file. If you added one, please remove and try running it…

How to customize Android ActionBar to show a custom view before the tabs?

This seems to be the intended behaviour when using tabs and custom views. https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=36191#c3 If you take a look at ActionBarSherlock – Tabs appearing ABOVE actionbar with custom view many other people are experiencing this as well and some people have offered solutions. I have been unable to get any of the solutions working, but … Read more

Using windowTranslucentStatus with CollapsingToolbarLayout

There has now been an update to the design library. I’m guessing that the issue posted above was a bug. If you update the design library to the latest version this issue no longer occurs. I have now removed all fitsSystemWindows=”true” except for the ImageView (as that needs to display under the status bar). I … Read more

How to add button in ActionBar(Android)?

you have to create an entry inside res/menu,override onCreateOptionsMenu and inflate it @Override public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) { MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater(); inflater.inflate(R.menu.yourentry, menu); return true; } an entry for the menu could be: <menu xmlns:android=”http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android” > <item android:id=”@+id/action_cart” android:icon=”@drawable/cart” android:orderInCategory=”100″ android:showAsAction=”always”/> </menu>

The application icon does not show on action bar

You are using the AppCompat version 21+ and it is normal. The Action Bar follows the material design guidelines and uses a Toolbar. As you can read here: The use of application icon plus title as a standard layout is discouraged on API 21 devices and newer. If you would like an application icon (but … Read more

Why can’t we use a Translucent system bars with and ActionBar

You can create your own theme with android.R.attr#windowTranslucentStatus set to true to achieve the same effect without losing the ActionBar. From the docs: Flag indicating whether this window requests a translucent status bar. Corresponds to {@link android.view.WindowManager.LayoutParams#FLAG_TRANSLUCENT_STATUS}. Styles – Remember, these would go in values-v19. <style name=”TranslucentStatusBar” parent=”@android:style/Theme.Holo.Light”> <item name=”android:actionBarStyle”>@style/TranslucentActionBar</item> <item name=”android:windowTranslucentNavigation”>false</item> <item name=”android:windowTranslucentStatus”>true</item> <item … Read more

No App Icon on ActionBar

As of AppCompat version 21, the Action Bar follows the material design guidelines and uses a Toolbar: A title and subtitle. The title should be a signpost for the Toolbar’s current position in the navigation hierarchy and the content contained there. The subtitle, if present should indicate any extended information about the current content. If … Read more

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