So I was looking at google's api demos for action bars and they have this
// The Action Bar is a window feature. The feature must be requested
// before setting a content view. Normally this is set automatically
// by your Activity's theme in your manifest. The provided system
// theme Theme.WithActionBar enables this for you. Use it as you would
// use Theme.NoTitleBar. You can add an Action Bar to your own themes
// by adding the element <item name="android:windowActionBar">true</item>
// to your style definition.
getWindow().requestFeature(Window.FEATURE_ACTION_BAR);
but when I tried to add the last line of code getWindow().requestFeature(Window.FEATURE_ACTION_BAR);
My app just dies on start up. So what does it really do?