Android: dynamically change ActionBar icon?

Question

I would like to dynamically change the \"home\" icon in the ActionBar. This is easily done in v14 with ActionBar.setIcon(...), but I can\'t find anyway to accomplish this i

Answer 1

If your actionbar works like Sherlock and is based on menu items, this is my solution:

@Override
public boolean onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    MenuItem switchButton = menu.findItem(R.id.SwitchSearchOption);     
    if(searchScriptDisplayed){
        switchButton.setIcon(R.drawable.menu_precedent);
    }else{
        switchButton.setIcon(R.drawable.icon_search);
    }
    return super.onPrepareOptionsMenu(menu);

}