How to get ActionBar view?

Question

I\'m using the Showcase library to explain my application feature to the user. In some point I need to dim the whole ActionBar to present another

Answer 1

I think this solution is more complete, handling both normal Activity and ActionBarActivity.

It also handles the case that the actionbar was set using a toolbar, but you need to implement it in the activity you've created:

public static View getActionBarView(final Activity activity) {
    if (activity instanceof IToolbarHolder)
        return ((IToolbarHolder) activity).getToolbar();
    final String packageName = activity instanceof ActionBarActivity ? activity.getPackageName() : "android";
    final int resId = activity.getResources().getIdentifier("action_bar_container", "id", packageName);
    final View view = activity.findViewById(resId);
    return view;
}

public interface IToolbarHolder {
    public android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar getToolbar();
}