How to add Action Bar from support library into PreferenceActivity?

Question

Action Bar compatibility has been added into support library, revision 18. It now has ActionBarActivity class for creating activities with Action Bar on older versions of An

Answer 1

I was able to get android.app.Actionbar by using getActionBar(). It returned a null value at first... then I went to the manifest and changed the theme to:

android:theme="@style/Theme.AppCompat"

Then I was able to have the actionbar again. I'm assuming this will only work for certain build levels. So you might want to do a check for the build number or check if the value returned is null.

It'll be fine for me because the app I'm working on is for ICS/4.0+.