can I use a compatible action bar AND a fragment in the same activity?

Question

OK, I've been extending my activities to

extends ActionBarActivity

My main menu page

extends FragmentActivity

when I change it to extend ActionBarActivity so I can see my action bar title on the main menu, it throws up and gives me the "Error Inflating Class Fragment" error.

Is there any way around this?

Answer 1

ActionBarActivity extends android.support.v4.app.FragmentActivity, so ActionBarActivity serves both purposes.

Answer 2

Is your code from the Action Bar compatibility example that comes with the SDK? If so just change the ActionBarActivity class in that example to extend FragmentActivity (from the compatibility library I assume) instead of Activity.