Action bar with custom title bar

Question

I need action bar with custom title bar in android please help me,thanks. The other option worth looking at is ActionBarCompat, which I think comes with the SDK 14 api demos. However, ActionBarSherlock seems to support many more features so that may be the better solution.

Answer 1

ActionBarSherlock is now kind of a "best practice" you are right in using it.

Create your Menu in the folder with the same name for example :

<item
    android:id="@+id/search"
    android:actionViewClass="com.actionbarsherlock.widget.SearchView"
    android:icon="@android:drawable/ic_menu_search"
    android:showAsAction="always|collapseActionView"
    android:title="@string/menu_search"/>
<item
    android:id="@+id/menu_filtre"
    android:orderInCategory="100"
    android:showAsAction="always|collapseActionView"
    android:title="@string/menu_filtre"/>
<item
    android:id="@+id/menu_clear"
    android:orderInCategory="100"
    android:showAsAction="always|collapseActionView"
    android:title="@string/menu_clear"/>

then in your MainActivity for example :

@Override
public boolean onPrepareOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {

    menu.clear();
    switch ((int) _viewPager.getCurrentItem()) {
        case 0:
            getSupportMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu, menu);
            break;
        }
    return super.onPrepareOptionsMenu(menu);
} 

And to finish :

ActionBar bar = getSupportActionBar();
bar.setTitle(R.string.titre_abs);
bar.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS);

For the installation take a look here http://actionbarsherlock.com/

For creating themes here http://jgilfelt.github.io/android-actionbarstylegenerator/#name=example&compat=holo&theme=light&actionbarstyle=solid&backColor=E4E4E4%2C100&secondaryColor=D6D6D6%2C100&tertiaryColor=F2F2F2%2C100&accentColor=33B5E5%2C100

if you need more just ask

good luck