Android how to use Toolbar in ListActivity?

Question

I made a ListActivity:

 public class NoteListActivity extends ListActivity{
 }

and the following methods are no longer available:

    setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
    getSupportActionBar().setHomeButtonEnabled(true);
    getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);

But I can use:

    setActionBar(toolbar);
    getActionBar().setHomeButtonEnabled(true);
    getActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);

Note that I used Support library in other activities in the same project. It means I have the correct gradle dependency added.

How do I use ListActivity and android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar ?

Answer 1

You can't do that in ListActivity.

If you want to access getSupportActionBar(), you need to extend your class with AppCompatActivity.

My Suggestion : Don't use ListActivty as you want to use ToolBar. Create an Activity and then only have ListView within that Activity. It'll work just fine.

Answer 2

     @Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    AppCompatCallback callback = new AppCompatCallback() {
        @Override
        public void onSupportActionModeStarted(ActionMode actionMode) {
        }

        @Override
        public void onSupportActionModeFinished(ActionMode actionMode) {
        }

        @Nullable
        @Override
        public ActionMode onWindowStartingSupportActionMode(ActionMode.Callback callback) {
            return null;
        }
    };

    AppCompatDelegate delegate = AppCompatDelegate.create(this, callback);

    delegate.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    delegate.setContentView(R.layout.saved_report_activity);

    Toolbar toolbar= (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
    delegate.setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
    delegate.getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(true);

    toolbar.setNavigationIcon(R.drawable.abc_ic_ab_back_mtrl_am_alpha);
    toolbar.setNavigationOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            NavUtils.navigateUpFromSameTask(SavedReportActivity.this);
        }
    });