android-actionbar

I want to use contextual action bar in my app. When I start action mode, There are padding between default actionbar and contextual actionbar as shown in image 2. How can I avoid this padding ? for start action mode startSupportActionMode(modeCallBack); callback method : private ActionMode.Callback modeCallBack = new ActionMode.Callback() { @Override public boolean onCreateActionMode(ActionMode mode, Menu menu) { MenuInflater inflater = mode.getMenuInflater(); inflater.inflate(R.menu.driver_main_menu, menu); return true; } @Override public boolean onPrepareActionMode(ActionMode mode, Menu menu

I'm using an Action Bar (a regular one, not sherlock) in my android app, and when the app opens I want to show a refreshing message in the action bar. This means I want to hide the menu items and title (similar to how the GMail app appears when it's refreshing). What is the best approach for this? Is it using a contextual action bar? Is it possible to show the refreshing animation just below the action bar, like in the GMail app (ie, the blue lines sliding over). I know I can use a 3rd party pull-to-refresh, but I'd prefer not to use this (as I don't need the pull-to-refresh capability). I'm

Just like the screenshot of Google Plus above, I want to show a circular avatar image in the action bar. What should I do? Create circular imageview. Create custom view for actionbar using the circular imageview Inflate the view and display custom view as action bar. <RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="50dp" android:background="@drawable/black_pattern" > <TextView android:id="@+id/title_text" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_centerInParent=

How to add action bar to a DialogFragment ? I found a way to style an activity to the way we require and then display it as a dialog as in the following link ActionBar in a DialogFragment I need to set an action bar on a proper DialogFragment . Is it possible? Lan As Up ActionBar action on DialogFragment indicates: There is no way to attach an ActionBar to the DialogFragment even though you can set the theme of the DialogFragment it will not register as a ActionBar to it, Dialog.getActionBar() will always return null. But there's always the cases that I really want to use DialogFragment(which

I want to detect long press on application's icon in the ActionBar in Android application. Is it possible? Add custom view to action bar View view = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.actionbar,null); btnClose = (ImageView) view.findViewById(R.id.btnClose); btnClose.setOnLongClickListener(new OnLongClickListener() { @Override public boolean onLongClick(View v) { Log.d("rvg", "Long click:"); return false; } }); getSupportActionBar() . setCustomView(view); OFFmind Unfortunately standard android tools doesn't provide such possibility. The only possible way is to create your own actionLayout,

The problem occurs when interacting with the SearchView or when the activity with the Searchview loads. When using setIconifiedByDefault(true) the problem occurs after the activity loads when interacting with the SearchView, but when using setIconifiedByDefault(false) the problem occurs when the activity loads. The following error is output in LogCat: java.lang.NullPointerException at android.widget.SearchView.adjustDropDownSizeAndPosition(SearchView.java:1244) Here is the code: ExampleActivity.java public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) { getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.example, menu)