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…
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
As I noted in a comment, I am not exactly sure if any of this would change with ABS (I’m sure not much would), but with the standard Action Bar you can load a custom layout .xml for your action bar title. For example, you could have action_bar_title.xml: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?> <RelativeLayout xmlns:android=”http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android” android:layout_width=”match_parent” android:layout_height=”match_parent” … Read more
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
getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(true);
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>
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
@Robert Estivil If you are using AppCompatActivity then use this: actionBar = ((AppCompatActivity)getActivity()).getSupportActionBar();
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
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