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lucgian84
lucgian84

Reputation: 843

Set custom style and action bar

I'm developing an app that needs to work with action bar and tab bar, my first issue was to set up a custom text style for the label on the tab bar, now I want to use the action bar, but I'm having trouble with custom style and action bar. I made a custom style so:

styles.xml

<resources>

    <!--
        Base application theme, dependent on API level. This theme is replaced
        by AppBaseTheme from res/values-vXX/styles.xml on newer devices.
    -->
    <style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="android:Theme.Light">
        <!--
            Theme customizations available in newer API levels can go in
            res/values-vXX/styles.xml, while customizations related to
            backward-compatibility can go here.
        -->
    </style>

    <!-- Application theme. -->
    <style name="AppTheme" parent="AppBaseTheme">
        <!-- All customizations that are NOT specific to a particular API-level can go here. -->
    </style>

    <style name="CustomTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme">
        <item name="android:tabWidgetStyle">@style/CustomTabWidget</item>
    </style>

    <style name="CustomTabWidget" parent="@android:style/Widget.TabWidget">
        <item name="android:textAppearance">@style/CustomTabWidgetText</item>
    </style>

    <style name="CustomTabWidgetText" parent="@android:style/TextAppearance.Widget.TabWidget">
        <item name="android:textSize">10sp</item>
        <item name="android:textStyle">bold</item>
    </style>

</resources>

Now I read here that I can add an action bar to a custom style, so i tried to do so:

styles.xml

<resources>

    <!--
        Base application theme, dependent on API level. This theme is replaced
        by AppBaseTheme from res/values-vXX/styles.xml on newer devices.
    -->
    <style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="android:Theme.Light">
        <!--
            Theme customizations available in newer API levels can go in
            res/values-vXX/styles.xml, while customizations related to
            backward-compatibility can go here.
        -->
    </style>

    <!-- Application theme. -->
    <style name="AppTheme" parent="AppBaseTheme">
        <!-- All customizations that are NOT specific to a particular API-level can go here. -->
    </style>

    <style name="CustomTheme" parent="@android:style/Theme">
        <item name="android:tabWidgetStyle">@style/CustomTabWidget</item>
        <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/Widget.ActionBar</item>
    </style>

    <style name="CustomTabWidget" parent="@android:style/Widget.TabWidget">
        <item name="android:textAppearance">@style/CustomTabWidgetText</item>
    </style>

    <style name="CustomTabWidgetText" parent="@android:style/TextAppearance.Widget.TabWidget">
        <item name="android:textSize">10sp</item>
        <item name="android:textStyle">bold</item>
    </style>

<style name="Widget.ActionBar" parent="android:Widget.Holo.Light.ActionBar">
    <item name="android:displayOptions">showHome|useLogo|showCustom</item>
    <item name="android:customNavigationLayout">@layout/custom</item>
</style>

</resources>

If you look at my xml code you can see that I add the Widget.ActionBar style to display an action bar on my activity. When I try to run my app I can see the custom style for the tab host, but I can't see the action bar. I need action bar to put there a the share button. Can you help me?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 887

Answers (1)

Shreyash Mahajan
Shreyash Mahajan

Reputation: 23596

Have you try this?

Here it given to make actionbarserlock.

Upvotes: 1

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