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This is not a complete project, but a modified version of a class that
is part of ActionBarCompat:
http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/ActionBarCompat/index.html. You
need to get the source from this url and override
ActionBarHelperBase.java with the file in this repository to make this
work.

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ActionBar is a UI pattern that has found its way into the Android SDK
in version 3.0 . If you want to support devices running Versions lower
than 3.0, you need some code that falls back to an alternative
implementation of the actionbar for devices running up to Android 2.3,
and uses the existing one in 3.0 and above.

There are various projects that do this. http://actionbarsherlock.com/
is a fully functional implementation that is, as far as I know, fully
compatible with the 3.0 APIs. The only downside to actionbarsherlock
is that the project is an extension to Google's Android Compability
Library, which means you have to use Actionbarsherlock instead of the
ACL. It's another dependency.

Google recommends a simpler, but also more restrictive solution: They
offer a piece of sample code that they recommend you use in your
project. They call it ActionBarCompat: http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/ActionBarCompat/index.html

One of the things that ActionBarCompat does not support is Adding an
ActionView to the Actionbar in a phone device.

I need such an ActionView in my project, but other that that,
ActionBarCompat works fine. Fortunately , the code from Google is not
very complicated, and it is quite easy to add support for this.

Just replace ActionBarHelperBase.java with my edited version. Then, if
you provide the android:actionLayout attribute to your menu
definition, the view in your layout will be added to the ActionBar
instead of the icon.



One thing that I did not implement is MenuItem#getActionView(). This
is the method that allows you to retrieve the ActionView from code.

So if you want, for example, add a listener to your view in code, you
have to search for it using Activity.findById(), after the actionBar
has been created.


e.g.


View myCustomView = this.findViewById(R.id.mycustomview);
myCustomView.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
  @Override
  public void onClick(View v) {
    /*...*/
  }
});