android-actionbaractivity
How to center toolbar back button?
From the developer.android.com : Toolbar supports a more focused feature set than ActionBar. From start to end, a toolbar may contain a combination of the following optional elements: A navigation button. This may be an Up arrow, navigation menu toggle, close, collapse, done or another glyph of the app’s choosing. This button should always be … Read more
Why was ActionBarActivity deprecated
ActionBar is deprecated ever since Toolbar was introduced. Toolbar can be seen as a ‘superset’ of any action bar. So the ‘old’ ActionBar is now an example of a Toolbar. If you want similar functionality, but without deprecation warnings do the following: Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar); if (toolbar != null) { toolbar.setTitle(R.string.app_name); setSupportActionBar(toolbar); } … Read more
What’s the enhancement of AppCompatActivity over ActionBarActivity?
As Chris wrote, new deprecated version of ActionBarActivity (the one extending AppCompatActivity class) is a safe to use backward compatibility class. Its deprecation is just a hint for you asking to use new AppCompatActivity directly instead. AppCompatActivity is a new, more generic implementation which uses AppCompatDelegate class internally. If you start a new development, then … Read more
Activity, AppCompatActivity, FragmentActivity, and ActionBarActivity: When to Use Which?
I thought Activity was deprecated No. So for API Level 22 (with a minimum support for API Level 15 or 16), what exactly should I use both to host the components, and for the components themselves? Are there uses for all of these, or should I be using one or two almost exclusively? Activity is … Read more