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Will Jamieson
Will Jamieson

Reputation: 926

Make home icon clickable on the action bar, under api level 14

I am currently using getActionBar().setHomeButtonEnabled(true);

it works fine but it requires api level 14 and without it I would be able to get all the way down to api 8 which would be awesome! If someone knows a way around this please let me know.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 110

Answers (4)

user2754122
user2754122

Reputation:

You have to use support library and code will something look like this:

import android.support.v7.app.ActionBar

public class YourActivity extends ActionBarActivity {
ActionBar actionBar;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    actionBar = getSupportActionBar(); // now do whatever you want to do with this action bar
}

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
    return true;
}

    @Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {

switch (item.getItemId()) {
    case android.R.id.home:
        // code for your action when you click home icon on action bar
        break;

    default:
        break;
    }

return true;
}


}

Upvotes: 2

petey
petey

Reputation: 17140

Use the v7 appcompat support library to get api 8 support for this method.

Instructions are located :

http://developer.android.com/tools/support-library/features.html#v7-appcompat Actionbar http://developer.android.com/tools/support-library/setup.html#libs-with-res

Upvotes: 1

crocboy
crocboy

Reputation: 2897

You can use the ActionBar support library: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/actionbar.html

Instead of getActionBar(), use getSupportActionBar()

Also, make sure this is your ActionBar import:

import android.support.v7.app.ActionBar

Upvotes: 1

Phil
Phil

Reputation: 36289

Just use ActionBarSherlock or ActionBarCompat. These will both handle low API levels and use the native ActionBar for higher APIs automatically.

Upvotes: 1

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