How I can add Edit Text field and button in ActionBar?

Question

I am using actionbarsherlock and I want to use an Edit Text and a Button in the action bar. I I have gone through many documents and posts but haven't found a solution yet.

How do I add an Edit Text in the Android action bar?

Answer 1

Putting a regular Button in the action bar will look fairly awful, IMHO.

That being said, you can use android:actionLayout on your <item> element in your menu XML resource. This should point to the name of a layout XML resource. This resource will be inflated into the action bar. You can get the widgets by calling getActionView() on the MenuItem object corresponding to this <item> element.

Here is a sample project demonstrating this. Here is the documentation on this technique.