'cannot find symbol ActionBarActivity' following Android Development Tutorial?

Question

So I am following this tutorial, using Sublime as a text editor and compiling everything from console.

All was working good, but when we came to the part where you

Answer 1

If you use Eclipse to add in DisplayMessageActivity.java then it derives from ActionBarActivity and adds in all the support code related to that for you.

However if you are following the tutorial using commandline tools, then the ActionBarActivity stuff is not set up yet. They get to that in the next part of the tutorial.

Instead, you can use the following code for DisplayMessageActivity.java:

package com.example.yourname;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class DisplayMessageActivity extends Activity {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    // Get the message from the intent
        Intent intent = getIntent();
        String message = intent.getStringExtra(MainActivity.EXTRA_MESSAGE);

    // Create the text view
        TextView textView = new TextView(this);
        textView.setTextSize(40);
        textView.setText(message);

        setContentView(textView);

    }
}

You will also need to add into MainActivity.java when you are doing the step "Start the Second Activity":

import android.view.View;