How to set active item in the Action Bar drop-down navigation?

Question

I\'m trying to fix the issue with restarting activity on orientation changes.

I have an ActionBar with drop-down list navigation and after every rotatio

Answer 1

I was also experiencing the same issue. Making a lot of research I found the solution here:

http://mohitum.wordpress.com/tutorials/android/ -->under Tip 5.

Implement OnPageChangeListener and in the onPageSelected(int position) call this method like this:

@Override
public void onPageSelected(int position) {
  mActionBar.setSelectedNavigationItem(position);
  selectInSpinnerIfPresent(position, true);
}
private void selectInSpinnerIfPresent(int position, boolean animate) {
  try {
    ActionBar actionBarView = mActionBar;
    Class actionBarViewClass = actionBarView.getClass();
    Field mTabScrollViewField = actionBarViewClass.getDeclaredField(“mTabScrollView”);
    mTabScrollViewField.setAccessible(true);
    Object mTabScrollView = mTabScrollViewField.get(actionBarView);
    if (mTabScrollView == null) {
      return;
    }
    Field mTabSpinnerField = mTabScrollView.getClass().getDeclaredField(“mTabSpinner”);
    mTabSpinnerField.setAccessible(true);
    Object mTabSpinner = mTabSpinnerField.get(mTabScrollView);
    if (mTabSpinner == null) {
      return;
    }
    Method setSelectionMethod = mTabSpinner.getClass().getSuperclass().getDeclaredMethod(“setSelection”, Integer.TYPE, Boolean.TYPE);
    setSelectionMethod.invoke(mTabSpinner, position, animate);
    Method requestLayoutMethod = mTabSpinner.getClass().getSuperclass().getDeclaredMethod(“requestLayout”);
    requestLayoutMethod.invoke(mTabSpinner);
    } catch (Exception e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
    }
  }

I hope this may help someone else too.