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

Codesnippet on Gist

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@Override
public void onPageScrollStateChanged(int state) {
}


@Override
public void onPageScrolled(int position, float positionOffset, int positionOffsetPixels) {
}


@Override
public void onPageSelected(int position) {
    actionBar.setSelectedNavigationItem(position);

    selectInSpinnerIfPresent(position, true);
}


/**
 * Hack that takes advantage of interface parity between ActionBarSherlock and the native interface to reach inside
 * the classes to manually select the appropriate tab spinner position if the overflow tab spinner is showing.
 * 
 * Related issues: https://github.com/JakeWharton/ActionBarSherlock/issues/240 and
 * https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/32492/
 * 
 * @author toulouse@crunchyroll.com
 */
private void selectInSpinnerIfPresent(int position, boolean animate) {
    try {
        View actionBarView = findViewById(R.id.abs__action_bar);
        if (actionBarView == null) {
            int id = getResources().getIdentifier("action_bar", "id", "android");
            actionBarView = findViewById(id);
        }

        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 (IllegalArgumentException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (NoSuchFieldException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (NoSuchMethodException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (InvocationTargetException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

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this hack around the official Android Bug did it for me, the codesnippet above did not :/