I tried to implement an action bar in my application.
menu.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item
android:id="@+id/itemAdd"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText"
android:title="ADD">
</item>
<item
android:id="@+id/itemRefresh"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText"
android:title="REFRESH">
</item>
<item
android:id="@+id/itemHelp"
android:title="HELP">
</item>
</menu>
And created menu
@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu, menu);
return true;
}
But it does not show the action bar even if minSdkVersion
is 11. What is the reason?
Remove your theme for your actionbar activity
in androidManifest file. Now it will work...
<application
android:allowBackup="true"
android:icon="@drawable/tasktodo"
android:label="@string/app_name"
>
Don't add any theme in your application manifest file. If you added one, please remove and try running it...
You have to set the style of your Activity to Theme.Holo
or one of its variants for the ActionBar to show. If you want to keep backwards-compatibility, call setTheme in onCreate of your Activity:
setTheme(android.R.style.Theme_Holo);
An application with a Manifest like this
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="com.example.Actionbartest"
android:versionCode="1"
android:versionName="1.0">
<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="7" android:targetSdkVersion="11" />
<application android:label="@string/app_name" android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher">
<activity android:name="MyActivity"
android:label="@string/app_name">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN"/>
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"/>
</intent-filter>
</activity>
</application>
</manifest>
Menu.xml like this
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
<item
android:id="@+id/itemAdd"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText"
android:title="ADD">
</item>
<item
android:id="@+id/itemRefresh"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText"
android:title="REFRESH">
</item>
<item
android:id="@+id/itemHelp"
android:title="HELP">
</item>
</menu>
And Activity like this
package com.example.Actionbartest;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.Menu;
public class MyActivity extends Activity {
/**
* Called when the activity is first created.
*/
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
}
@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu, menu);
return true;
}
}
Looks like this.
Are you sure your phone or emulator is running Android 3.0 or above? If not, you will end up with your screenshot.
To enable The Actionbar on older devices, you should use the AppCompat/support library (https://developer.android.com/tools/support-library/features.html)
change Activity to AppCompatActivity in your class. That should be the easiest if you want to add it fast.. I'll add the code for someone who is new to Android OS:
public class YourActivity extends Activity
into
public class YourActivity extends AppCompatActivity
android:allowBackup="true"
android:icon="@drawable/ic2"
android:label="@string/app_name"
android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Holo.Light.DarkActionBar"
this works. Put it in your
I import import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
then edit to public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity
Add to dependencies
dependencies {
compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:25.0.0'
}