Using ActionBarSherlock With the New SupportMapFragment

Question

I am looking at using ActionbarSherlock but have one query that\'s holding me back.

So my application needs to be fully backwards compatible to API Level 7.

Answer 1

I tried implementing SupportMapFragment with ActionBarSherlock.

It is working very fine.

Below is code snippet.

package com.example.newmapview;

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.Toast;
import com.actionbarsherlock.app.SherlockFragmentActivity;
import com.actionbarsherlock.view.Menu;
import com.actionbarsherlock.view.MenuItem;
import com.actionbarsherlock.view.SubMenu;
import com.google.android.gms.maps.GoogleMap;
import com.google.android.gms.maps.SupportMapFragment;

public class MainActivity extends SherlockFragmentActivity {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        SupportMapFragment fragment = SupportMapFragment.newInstance();
        getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction()
                .add(R.id.mapLayout, fragment).commit();

    }

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {

        SubMenu subMenu = menu.addSubMenu("Type");

        subMenu.add("Normal");
        subMenu.add("SATELLITE");

        subMenu.getItem().setShowAsAction(MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_ALWAYS);

        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {

        if (item.getTitle().toString().equalsIgnoreCase("Normal")) {
            Toast.makeText(this, "Clicked Normal", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
            GoogleMap googleMap = ((SupportMapFragment) getSupportFragmentManager()
                    .findFragmentById(R.id.mapLayout)).getMap();

            if (googleMap != null)
                googleMap.setMapType(GoogleMap.MAP_TYPE_NORMAL);
            else
                Toast.makeText(this, "GoogleMap is null", Toast.LENGTH_LONG)
                        .show();
        } else if (item.getTitle().toString().equalsIgnoreCase("SATELLITE")) {
            Toast.makeText(this, "Clicked SATELLITE", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
            GoogleMap googleMap = ((SupportMapFragment) getSupportFragmentManager()
                    .findFragmentById(R.id.mapLayout)).getMap();

            if (googleMap != null)
                googleMap.setMapType(GoogleMap.MAP_TYPE_SATELLITE);
            else
                Toast.makeText(this, "GoogleMap is null", Toast.LENGTH_LONG)
                        .show();
        }

        return true;

    }
}

Hope this will help.