Android Split Action Bar with Action Items on the top and bottom?

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Ryan R picture Ryan R · Dec 20, 2011 · Viewed 42.3k times · Source

Is there a way to specify some action items to the top part of the Split Action Bar while the others go to the bottom? Or is it all or nothing, whereby all the action items go to the bottom part of the split only?

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Answer

Ryan R picture Ryan R · Dec 22, 2011

This is currently not possible.

See the response directly from Android developers Reto Meier and Roman Nurik during the Android Developer Office Hours: http://youtu.be/pBmRCBP56-Q?t=55m50s

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