Split ActionBar about actionbarextras HOT 7 CLOSED

Will have a look at this when I'm back from vacations :)

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Stop reading emails while on vacations...you'll get in trouble :)

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OK, I fooled around with this. But I didn't manage to enable the SplitActionBar after the window is open. So, I could not find a way to toggle between normal and split ActionBar because you have to set this option either in the Manifest or in the activities onCreate method. I'm not aware of how you can hook into the Activity Lifecycle from within a module.

The only way I was successfully enabling the Split ActionBar was setting this in the tiapp.xml:

<activity android:name="org.appcelerator.titanium.TiActivity" 
    android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation|screenSize"
    android:uiOptions="splitActionBarWhenNarrow">

    <meta-data android:name="android.support.UI_OPTIONS"
        android:value="splitActionBarWhenNarrow" />
</activity>

But this enables the Split ActionBar for every Activity / Window. And this is not what we want. It's a pitty that you can't define multiple Activity definitions in the Manifest. A possible workaround could be using the TranslucentActivity together with a custom Theme. Maybe I'm going to create an example project for this. But for now, I don't see a chance to integrate this feature into the Module 😒

btw. here's a related jira ticket: TIMOB-17393

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As I mentioned before, I do not see a way to do this with the module because you need to hook into the window creation. I have just submitted a PR to the core to enabling splitActionBar support: tidev/titanium-sdk#6124

So, you can close this issue.

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Thanks for checking it out.

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It works better this way.

I tried some approaches but I think official support is better than hacking around. Hopefully they'll merge it!

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https://jira.appcelerator.org/browse/TIMOB-17393

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