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employeegts
employeegts

Reputation: 144

Action bar not showing on new activity

Action bar on new activities are not showing. I spent couple of hours on stack over flow and other websites on finding what can be the reason but i could not figure out the problem.

Can you please tell me what can be the reason and what will be the possible solution?

Following is my code

First i created : activity_forgot_password.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
 xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#ffffff" 
>

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="vertical"
        android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
        android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
        android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
        android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
        tools:context="com.reach2employee.ForgotPasswordActivity"
        >

            <ImageView
               android:id="@+id/appLogo"
               android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
               android:layout_height="wrap_content"
               android:contentDescription="@string/app_name"
               android:src="@drawable/onlyitemployees_logo"
            />

            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/forgotPasswordTextView"
                android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:textSize="20sp"
                android:text="@string/forgotPasswordBtnText"
                android:textColor="#D08B3A"
                android:layout_marginTop="15dp" 
                />                

            <EditText
                android:id="@+id/employerUsername"
                android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
                android:hint="@string/employerUsernameHint"
                android:layout_marginTop="15dp"
                />


            <Button 
                android:id="@+id/submitBtn"
                android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:background="#8eb534"
                android:textColor="#ffffff"
                android:text="@string/submitBtn"
                android:layout_marginTop="15dp"
                style="?android:attr/borderlessButtonStyle"
                />                                       

</LinearLayout>


</ScrollView>

Secondly i created ForgotPasswordActivity.java

public class ForgotPasswordActivity extends Activity {

    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);     
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_forgot_password);  
    }       

}

Third I have added some code in manifest file

<activity 
        android:name=".ForgotPasswordActivity"
        android:label="Forgot Password"
        ></activity>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2431

Answers (3)

Captain Kenpachi
Captain Kenpachi

Reputation: 7215

In my second Activity, I had to handle the onCreateOptionsMenu() handler again:

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
    inflater.inflate(R.menu.topmenu, menu);

    return true;
}

and also the menu items' event handlers too:

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    // Handle item selection
    switch (item.getItemId()) {

        case R.id.menu_home:
            gotohome();
            return true;
        case R.id.menu_admin:
            gotoadmin();
            return true;
        default:
            return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);

    }
}

UPDATE: I decided to create a base activity class that all my activities will inherit from. I put all the shared code in there.

Upvotes: 1

Santosh Pillai
Santosh Pillai

Reputation: 8633

I had faced the similar problem. My class was extending 'Activity' and not 'ActionBarActivity'. The Action Bar showed up after I extended the 'ActionBarActivity'.

Upvotes: 0

Nazgul
Nazgul

Reputation: 1902

Presuming you are trying to get the native android action bar and not sherlok one's.....Does your activity extend ActionBarActivity? without that not possibly. After correcting the base class make sure your activity uses a theme that supports action bar.

Upvotes: 3

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