android-actionbaractivity

I am new to android-programming. I am following this tutorial to add an ActionBar to my Main_Activity using the explanation in the " Support Android 2.1 and Above " section. I followed this tutorial to add a Library-Project. Then after adding the library, at the point " Add the library to your application project : I felt lost .. basically because I don't have the " add " option by itself in my Eclipse .. however I clicked on " add library " and moved on .. now when I change Activity to ActionBarActivity : public class MainActivity extends ActionBarActivity { ... } in my mainActivity.java , it

I am having trouble with changing my navigation drawer icon to a custom one. I've currently had to implement the standard drawer icon which has 3 horizontal lines on top, but now I want to replace this with my custom drawer icon. This is how my mDrawerToggle is at the moment: mDrawerToggle=new ActionBarDrawerToggle(this, mDrawerLayout, R.drawable.app_icon, R.string.drawer_open) { // My code }; Tarun Tak Here is the sample code taken from Creating a Navigation Drawer Activity.class public class MainActivity extends Activity { private DrawerLayout mDrawerLayout; private ActionBarDrawerToggle

I installed Android Studio freshly and I begun coding an activity to extend ActionBarActivity and it showed that it was deprecated. So how else do I set up an actionbar for my activity. Also the Getting Started Training uses the ActionBarActivity without making reference that it has been deprecated. Endran ActionBar is deprecated ever since Toolbar was introduced. Toolbar can be seen as a 'superset' of any action bar. So the 'old' ActionBar is now an example of a Toolbar . If you want similar functionality, but without deprecation warnings do the following: Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar)

I'm coming from iOS where it's easy and you simply use a UIViewController. However, in Android things seem much more complicated, with certain UIComponents for specific API Levels. I'm reading BigNerdRanch for Android (the book is roughly 2 years old) and they suggest I use Activity to host my FragmentActivities . However, I thought Activity was deprecated. So for API Level 22 (with a minimum support for API Level 15 or 16), what exactly should I use both to host the components, and for the components themselves? Are there uses for all of these, or should I be using one or two almost