Top "Android-actionbar" questions

The ActionBar is Android's window feature that identifies the application and user location, and provides user actions and navigation modes.

Change Action Bar Title color

My code is as below and while it works ( when I change the parent Theme to Theme.Sherlock or Theme.…

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How can I refresh the ActionBar when onPrepareOptionsMenu switched menu entries?

Within my apps I often enable/disable menu entries and do make them visible from onPrepareOptionsMenu. Today I started to …

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Why was ActionBarActivity deprecated

I installed Android Studio freshly and I begun coding an activity to extend ActionBarActivity and it showed that it was …

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What is the difference between Action Bar and newly introduced Toolbar?

After Google introduced Material Design, I have heard about a new widget class called Toolbar. What is the Toolbar, and …

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How to force use of overflow menu on devices with menu button

I'd like to have all of the menu items that don't fit into the ActionBar go into the overflow menu (…

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How to change the default icon on the SearchView, to be use in the action bar on Android?

I'm having a bit of trouble customizing the search icon in the SearchView. On my point of view, the icon …

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Set up toolbar as actionbar in fragment

I want to set up my toolbar as an actionbar, but since your toolbar is a layoutelement it has to …

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Changing the background drawable of the searchview widget

I'm trying to change the drawable that sits in the Android actionbar searchview widget. Currently it looks like this: but …

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Action Bar menu item text color

How to change text color of menu item title. I tried to change it as below <style name="Theme.…

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What is the Default ActionBar Title Font Size?

Seems to be 17dip. Just want to confirm it if anyone knows the exact size.

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