ActionBarSherlock - Tabs appearing ABOVE actionbar with custom view

Question

I Am trying to create an actionbar without the app logo/text, and with a centralised picture, and i know it is possible with a custom view, here is my code:

Answer 1

this works great too! (read the bugreport comments ;))

actionBar.setLogo(new ColorDrawable(Color.TRANSPARENT));

Answer 2

I used this

ActionBar ab = getSupportActionBar();
ab.setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(true);
    ab.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(false);
    ab.setHomeButtonEnabled(false);
    ab.setLogo(null);

    View homeIcon = findViewById(
            Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB ? 
            android.R.id.home : R.id.abs__home);
    ((View) homeIcon.getParent()).setVisibility(View.GONE);
    ((View) homeIcon).setVisibility(View.GONE);

    ab.setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);

Answer 3

Here's a simple workaround :

use the following in your onCreate method :

View homeIcon = findViewById(android.R.id.home);
((View) homeIcon.getParent()).setVisibility(View.GONE);

this collapses the home button completely.

PS : i'm using standard ActionBar but this should work the same

Or

if you want to support in Sherlock Actionbar to than you have to use this

actionBar.setLogo(null); // forgot why this one but it helped

View homeIcon = findViewById(
        Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB ? 
        android.R.id.home : R.id.abs__home);
((View) homeIcon.getParent()).setVisibility(View.GONE);
((View) homeIcon).setVisibility(View.GONE);

actionBar.setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);

Answer 4

It is worth noting that the selected answer will only work with the native ActionBar because the element android.R.id.home doesn't exist on pre-hc. That is, on pre-hc devices, you will get an NPE.

Since you are using ActionBarSherlock, I'm assuming you want to support pre-hc devices so you should use the correct id based on the platform version. ABS will expose the equivalent of android.R.id.home via R.id.abs__home for its implementation of the ActionBar.

So, we can tweak the suggested workaround as:

View homeIcon = findViewById(
                    Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB ? 
                    android.R.id.home : R.id.abs__home);
((View) homeIcon.getParent()).setVisibility(View.GONE);

Answer 5

All post above collapsing the home icon but leaving a blank space. For avoiding that you need to set the logo size to zero . Below added my code snippet.it may help for others who struggle with same problem.thanks

       actionBar.setLogo(new ColorDrawable(Color.TRANSPARENT));

      View homeIcon = findViewById(
                Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB ? 
                android.R.id.home : R.id.abs__home);
        ((View) homeIcon.getParent()).setLayoutParams(new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(0, 0));
        ((View) homeIcon).setVisibility(View.GONE);

Answer 6

just remove DISPLAY_SHOW_HOME flag from your actionBar.setDisplayOptions() method.