Difference between ActionBarSherlock and ActionBar Compatibility

Question

What is the difference between ActionBarSherlock and Action Bar Compatibility

Fews days ago Google just released the ActionBar Compatibility that make me so confused. Is that the Action Bar Compatibility works same as the ActionBarSherlock and is the coding same?

Example : Does app icon to navigate "up" or ActionBar.Tab supported in Action Bar Compatibility ?

Answer 1

ActionBarSherlock vs ActionBarCompat:

I Just want to put few code difference between ActionBarSherlock vs ActionBarCompat Lib

We can migrate some apps from ActionBarSherlock to ActionBarCompat:

steps:

1. Import AppCompat project.

2. Replace SherlockFragmentActivity with ActionBarActivity.

3. Replace SherlockFragment with Fragment.

4. Change Menu, MenuItem and getSupportMenuInflater() references. Modify the way you get Action Views.

   mSearchView = (SearchView)MenuItemCompat.getActionView(mSearchItem)

5. Modify your Themes and Styles.

For more info, please refer this slides by +NickButcher (Google)

Thanks to Sources: http://gmariotti.blogspot.in/2013/07/actionbarsherlock-vs-actionbarcompat.html http://antonioleiva.com/actionbarcompat-migrating-actionbarsherlock/

Don't forget to read this developer.android for more about ABC!

Note: Setting it up for unit tests the same way as ABS is unfortunately not possible with the support library.

Output:

Credits: Gabriele Mariotti