android-actionbar-compat

I switched from ActionBarSherlock to ActionBarCompat (support library v7). After some adjustments, almost everything is working fine by now. But I'm in trouble with the SearchView in the ActionBar. When it's expanded (actually, It's always expanded in my Activity), it takes up all the space and doesn't respect the space of other Action Items that are set to show always (showAsAction="always"). To simulate the problem, use this: <menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"> <item android:id="@+id/menu_buscar" app

This question already has an answer here: Actionbar not shown with AppCompat 3 answers I am using appcompat in my app. I want the menu items to show on actionbar or at least the overflow(3 dots) to show them when there is no room. There is lot of space on the actionbar, but still they don't show up. The menu flow raises from the bottom and that too only when menu button is pressed. menu_activity.xml: <menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto" > <item android:id="@+id/menu_lang" android:showAsAction="always" android:title

I would like to add the support actionbar to one of my activities, I previously had been using the theme.translucent with this activity but in order to make the support actionbar work I needed to inherit the Theme.AppCompat, I need to maintain a translucent theme in this activity but unfortunately there isnt a Theme.AppCompat.translucent that i can see by default, is there any way that this can be done? Cameron Ketcham You can create a new set of styles to use which have the same properties as Theme.Translucent from themes.xml . Add the following to your styles.xml file: <style name="Theme

I'm starting a new project that uses the AppCompat/ActionBarCompat in v7 support library. I'm trying to figure out how to use the getSupportActionBar from within a fragment. My activity that hosts the fragment extends ActionBarActivity , but I don't see a similar support class for Fragments. From within my fragment public class CrimeFragment extends Fragment { //... getActivity().getSupportActionBar().setSubtitle(R.string.subtitle); // getSupportActionBar is not defined in the v4 version of Fragment //... } The google page for using it ( http://android-developers.blogspot.in/2013/08

I was recommended to extend my Activity class from ActionBarActivity Here is the previous code: import android.support.v7.app.ActionBar; import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity; public class MainActivity extends Activity { @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); } I wrote new application and followed advice. import android.os.Bundle; import android.support.v7.app.ActionBar; import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity; public class MainActivity extends ActionBarActivity { @Override

I'm using the v7 appcompat 21 library to use the new Material styles on pre-Lollipop devices. My styles.xml looks like this: <style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar"> <item name="android:textColorPrimary">#ff0000</item> <item name="android:textColorPrimaryInverse">#ff0000</item> </style> I am trying to change the text color on the action bar. But no matter what I put for textColorPrimary or textColorPrimaryInverse, the color is always white. If I inherit from Theme.AppCompat, I can override "textColorPrimary", and if I inherit from Theme.AppCompat.Light, I can