How to implement the action bar in api levels less than 11?

Question

I recently read about the action bar implementation in android in the dev site.But i found that it requires a minimum api level of 11.Can someone tell me whether it is possi

Answer 1

There are third-party implementations of the action bar available. See this library project at github: android-actionbar. The manifest says the minimum API level is 3, target API is 8.

Answer 2

If you are looking for a simplistic Actionbar solution you might want to give a look to ActionBarCompat from the Google Official examples

Answer 3

ActionBarSherlock at http://actionbarsherlock.com is an Android library for implementing the action bar design pattern using the native ActionBar on 3.0+ and a third-party library on pre-3.0.

There is now also ActionBarCompat - part of the Android Support Library: http://android-developers.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/actionbarcompat-and-io-2013-app-source.html