android-actionbar-compat

I'm using the Showcase library to explain my application feature to the user. In some point I need to dim the whole ActionBar to present another feature to the user. For that I'm using the setAlpha(float num) of the View class. And so for doing that I need to get the actual view instance of my ActionBar By the way, I'm using the support-7-appcompat library that gives ActionBar support for older systems. Update In the meantime I found this option, if you configure a custom view and add it to you ActionBar using: getSupportActionBar().setCustomView(v); Then to get the View of the ActionBar you

What is the difference between ActionBarSherlock and Action Bar Compatibility Fews days ago Google just released the ActionBar Compatibility that make me so confused. Is that the Action Bar Compatibility works same as the ActionBarSherlock and is the coding same? Example : Does app icon to navigate "up" or ActionBar.Tab supported in Action Bar Compatibility ? Kurtis Nusbaum ActionBarSherlock gives your application an action bar regardless* of what version of the android API your app is being run on. Action Bar Compatibility gives you the action bar only if the device that you're running on is

I have a Navigation Drawer which should appear in all my activities. I saw many questions similar to this & found a solution like Extending the MainActivity with the Other Activities . So i extended My Main Activity to my Second Activity.But the Drawer is not being showed in the Second Activity MainActivity public class MainActivity extends ActionBarActivity { private ListView mDrawerList; private DrawerLayout mDrawer; private CustomActionBarDrawerToggle mDrawerToggle; private String[] menuItems; @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

How to make transparent or translucent ActionBar like Google Play that fades in or out when scrolling using windowActionBarOverlay ? Check the following screenshots CommandSpace The following is the code I used in the app I am working You will have to use the OnScrollChanged function in your ScrollView . ActionBar doesn't let you set the opacity , so set a background drawable on the actionbar and you can change its opacity based on the amount of scroll in the scrollview. I have given an example workflow The function sets gives the appropriate alpha for the view locationImage based on its

I just implemented the v7 AppCompat support library but the MenuItemCompat.getActionView always return null in every Android version I tested (4.2.2, 2.3.4 ....) The SearchView is displayed in action bar but it doesn't respond to touch actions and doesn't expand to show its EditText and is just like a simple icon. @Override public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) { MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater(); inflater.inflate(R.menu.menu, menu); MenuItem searchItem = menu.findItem(R.id.action_search); SearchView searchView = (SearchView) MenuItemCompat.getActionView(searchItem); if

I'm trying the new Toolbar component and having some trouble with the navigation icon. I want to implement a custom icon for back navigation : In my manifest i set a parent to my activity : <activity android:name=".CardsActivity" android:parentActivityName=".MainActivity"> <!-- Parent activity meta-data to support API level 7+ --> <meta-data android:name="android.support.PARENT_ACTIVITY" android:value=".MainActivity" /> </activity> I declare the toolbar like this : <RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" android

I was using SupportActionBar with tabs and a custom ActionBar theme (created with http://jgilfelt.github.io/android-actionbarstylegenerator/ ), that show the tabs only when the user expands the search view. public boolean onMenuItemActionExpand(MenuItem item) { actionBar.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS); return true; } } I migrated from ActionBar to Toolbar. My app really needs to support API 9. Is there a way to use this code to add the tabs back?: Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.new_actionbar); setSupportActionBar(toolbar); getSupportActionBar()