Using PreferenceActivity and ActionBarActivity

Question

Is it possible to use ActionBarActivity in conjunction with PreferenceActivity. Basically, I want to use the following code:

getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true); // Enables the "back" arrow

The issue is PreferenceActivity doesn't contain the getSupportActionBar() method and ActionBarActivity doesn't contain any methods for managing and displaying preferences.

Answer 1

If you are willing to turn your PreferenceActivity into a PreferenceFragment there is an implementation based on support-v4 Fragment:

https://github.com/kolavar/android-support-v4-preferencefragment

Im using it myself and it works just fine in conjunction to ActionBarActivity!

Answer 2

ActionBarCompat the feature is not supported yet.

How to add Action Bar from support library into PreferenceActivity?

ActionBar been added in the HoneyComb can use the following code:

if(Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB)
    getActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);