Android Split Action Bar with Action Items on the top and bottom?

Question

Is there a way to specify some action items to the top part of the Split Action Bar while the others go to the bottom? Or is it all or nothing, whereby all the action items go to the bottom part of the split only?

Answer 1

This is currently not possible.

See the response directly from Android developers Reto Meier and Roman Nurik during the Android Developer Office Hours: http://youtu.be/pBmRCBP56-Q?t=55m50s

Answer 2

To solve this I used a custom view as my action bar:

@Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {     super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);     setContentView(R.layout.main);      ActionBar actionBar = getActionBar();     actionBar.setDisplayOptions(ActionBar.DISPLAY_SHOW_CUSTOM);      View view = View.inflate(getApplicationContext(), R.layout.actionbar,             null);     actionBar.setCustomView(view);  } 

and then for the bottom bar I inflated my menu view or whatever you want to appear at bottom:

 @Override public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {     getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.browser_main, menu);     RelativeLayout relativeLayout = (RelativeLayout) menu.findItem(             R.id.layout_item).getActionView();      View inflatedView = getLayoutInflater().inflate(             R.layout.media_bottombar, null);      relativeLayout.addView(inflatedView);      return true; } 

In the Android Manifest, I also include (android:uiOptions="splitActionBarWhenNarrow") like this:

<application     android:allowBackup="true"     android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"     android:label="@string/app_name"     android:theme="@style/AppTheme"     android:uiOptions="splitActionBarWhenNarrow" > ....