ActionBar with support library and Fragments overlay content

Question

I added the android-support-library-v7-appcompat to my project to support ActionBar from API level 7 above.

It works like a charm on android 4.0+ an

Answer 1

Another alternative if you do not want to modify the source code of android-support-library-v7-appcompat is to add an empty layout in the layout xml file such as:

and make the fragment call to add to that layout instead:

ft.add(R.id.content_view, mFragment, mTag);