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The ActionBar is Android's window feature that identifies the application and user location, and provides user actions and navigation modes.

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How to achieve the effect disappearance / appearance of the action bar? (Google Now effect)

I would like to reproduce the effect of appearance and disappearance of the action bar that carries the Google Application Now. Exist there a library (GitHub project) to achieve this effect? 1) ...
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How do i set my menu buttons location

So what i want to do, is to have that menu button that we all know, to be displayed in the top right corner. And as I've searched online, I found that actionbar Sherlock kind of suites my needs. ...
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How to move ActionBar when sidebar opens?

I have a SideBar in my android app which opens when the user clicks on a button. But in the activites which contain ActionBar too, when the SideBar opens, the ActionBar stays at the top while the rest ...
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Action Bar disappears after applying background

I applied a gradient background to my ActionBar. I can see it in the preview on Eclipse but when I run the app on my phone, the action bar vanishes completely. Why is this happening? styles.xml ...
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How to create an OK/Submit button in the ActionBar?

I actually have two questions: Is there a way to mark a menu item in the ActionBar as the OK/submission button, or is it just a regular item? Is there a built-in theme for an OK button in the ...
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There's a way to remove icon margin in ActionBar?

I have my navigation button on my action bar, but what I want is to keep it together. In image below you can have a better idea what I'm talking I have my navigation button on my action bar, and ...
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Crash with android:background=“?activatedBackgroundIndicator”

I have a problem related to this statement with ActionBarSherlock: android:background="?activatedBackgroundIndicator" The problem is, If I use this value in a layout like this: <RelativeLayout ...
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Add images to android Action bar that aren't action items

I want to add 2 little icons that will sometimes appear on the action bar. These icons won't be clickable though so I don't want to add them as an action item. What ways can I do this?
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ActionbarSherlock getting Actionbar size

I'm using ActionbarSherlock 4.3.1 for compatibility to API 8. I use an overlay Actionbar: public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); ...
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Choose where to expand an Actionbar item

I have an activity with tabs. In one of those tabs, I implemented a Fragment which displays two Actionbar menu items. One of them is a spinner (to sort the list) and the other one is an ...
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How can Google make it possible to use ActionBar in Google Shopper app, which only requires a min SDK of 8?

I'm confused with this fact, and I think some feature must require getActionBar() and this function requires a min SDK of 11, but how can Google make those features possible? I wonder Google may ...
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Is it possible to create custom view for ActionBar SubMenu?

I want to create ActionBar sub-menu item with custom layout or view. Something like: ImageView - TextView - ImageView It is possible to create MenuItem with custom layout or view, but I wasn't able ...
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Advantages of Action bar. Original Action bar Vs Action Bar Look And feel created using Layouts, Buttons & TextView [closed]

I know ActionBar is something important in android design guidelines. I've some doubts on this. Why do we use this ActionBar? We can also create the look and feel of an action bar using Layouts, ...
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Show “more” button in actionbar

I've an ActionBar with 2 items, and an extra item which contains several submenus. I want this last item, to appear like this picture: Those three grey/white squared dots on the right, next to ...
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Android - Benefit of using actionbar over a view?

Recently I've heard the recommendation of using actionbar to manage user actions and navigation in the app. However to implement this and have my app be compatible with lower versions I have to use ...

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