Split action bar on Android 5.0 (Lollipop)

Question

Does anybody know if the split action bar when narrow feature was removed from Android 5.0? It seems that it does not have any effect on the layout anymore.

Answer 1

Since this question was not really answered before...

Does anybody know if the split action bar when narrow feature was removed from Android 5.0?

Yes, it was, though that change is not documented outside of the issue tracker entry itself.

Answer 2

As said you cannot split the action bar, although you can achieve a even better result with the Toolbar.

   Toolbar toolbarBottom = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar_bottom);
    toolbarBottom.inflateMenu(R.menu.menu_bottom);
    toolbarBottom.setOnMenuItemClickListener(new Toolbar.OnMenuItemClickListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onMenuItemClick(MenuItem menuItem) {
            //your code
            return false;
        }
    });

It's important to say that this feature is backwards compatible with the appcompat support

compile "com.android.support:appcompat-v7:21.0.+"

You'll also need to declare the toolbar in your layout.

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:id="@+id/toolbar"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
    android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
    app:popupTheme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light"
    app:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar" />

<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
    android:id="@+id/toolbar_bottom"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
    android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
    android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"/>

    <LinearLayout
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:paddingTop="?attr/actionBarSize"
    android:layout_above="@id/toolbar"
    android:layout_below="@id/toolbar_bottom" />
</LinearLayout>