Combining ListActivity and ActionBarActivity

Question

I am currently building for a minimum SDK of 10, so I have to use the android-support-v7-appcompat library to implement ActionBar. I h

Answer 1

ListActivity hasn't been ported to AppCompat. Probably because you should consider it 'deprecated', and instead use a ListFragment.

Fragments will work with a ActionBarActivity, just make sure they are fragments from the support library.

Have a read through this link about fragments.

For your use case, I would just define the fragment in xml.

Answer 2

The easiest way to do this is to use a ListFragment inside of the ActionBarActivity. I did it like this:

public class MyActivity extends ActionBarActivity {
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);

        MyFragment fragment = new MyFragment();
        getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction().replace(android.R.id.content, fragment).commit();
    }

    public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
        switch (item.getItemId()) {
            case android.R.id.home: {
                finish();
                break;
            }

            default: {
                break;
            }
        }
        return true;
    }

    public static class MyFragment extends ListFragment {

        public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
            super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

            ...
        }

        public void onListItemClick(ListView listView, View view, int position, long id) {
            ...
        }
    }
}

This way you don't even need an xml for it, and it works well.