android-actionbar

I am trying to implement an action bar in which one of the buttons on click shows a popup menu. Here's the menu. XML (menu items in the action bar) <menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" > <item android:id="@+id/search" android:icon="@drawable/ic_action_search" android:orderInCategory="0" android:showAsAction="always" android:title="@string/menu_search"/> <item android:id="@+id/refresh" android:icon="@drawable/ic_action_refresh" android:orderInCategory="1" android:showAsAction="always" android:title="@string/menu_refresh"/> <Item android:id="@+id/popup" android:icon="

I was wondering, if there is any possibility of getting the screen coordinates of an action bar menu item? As I would like to create an introduction screen, to draw an arrow pointing to the desired action bar menu item, so that the user knows where to start. penduDev Here's how I did it: @Override public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) { if(item.getItemId().equals(R.id.my_menu_item)) { View menuView = findViewById(R.id.menu_item_search); int[] location = new int[2]; menuView.getLocationOnScreen(location); int menuViewX = location[0]; int menuViewY = location[1]; } } Presently,

I have an actionbar with a logo, a title, 2 tabs and a search function. On a phone (3.5") everything works fine. The actionbar has 2 lines. The logo title and the search function appear on the first line and the tabs apear on the second line. On my tablet (7") everyting is shown on a single line. But the tabs will be convert to a list when i click the search icon. How can i split the (sherlock)actionbar in 2 lines on my 7" tabblet? Or is there an other way to solve this problem? In ActionBarSherlock, there is a boolean value(abs__action_bar_embed_tabs) that determine whether the Tabs should be

I'd like to have an app layout as the one they used for Gmail. They have the actionbar that has icons (on my device it has the app logo for up navigation, and a custom view for selecting priority inbox/inbox/etc), but there is also some kind of split ActionBar because at the bottom I have several icons (compose, search, labels, etc). How could I do this? I have implemented the following ActionBar through this XML: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" > <item android:id="@+id/menu_gps" android:icon="@drawable/icone_gps_continu"

I have dropdown list in actionbar as navigation list. Using ActionBar.OnNavigationListener and onNavigationItemSelected to detect when user has clicked on item in actionbar dropdown navigation list and that works fine. However, onNavigationItemSelected is not called if user has clicked on the same item as the one which is currently selected in dropdown list! (I need this exact functionality behavior for app to work properly) So is there any way to detect click on any part of the dropdown list in actionbar? Is there a way to somehow reference dropdown view in actionbar, and then set