Android Sherlock ActionBar and CustomTheme Example

Android Sherlock ActionBar and CustomTheme Example

This article about how to add action views in action bar and  change action bar colors , Custom Themes

Add action view into ActionBar.

XML code

Menu.xml

Add the action  items here

Menu Item I have added Search Button and Setting Navigation

<menuxmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"

xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"

tools:context="com.vijay.sherlockactionbar.MainActivity">

<item

android:id="@+id/action_settings"

android:orderInCategory="100"

android:title="@string/action_settings"

app:showAsAction="never"/>

<item

android:id="@+id/action_vj_blog"

android:orderInCategory="100"

android:title="@string/action_vj_blog"

app:showAsAction="never"/>

<item

android:id="@+id/action_recahrge"

android:orderInCategory="100"

android:title="@string/action_recharge"

app:showAsAction="never"/>

<item

android:id="@+id/action_search"

android:icon="@android:drawable/ic_search_category_default"

android:title="Search....."

app:actionViewClass="android.support.v7.widget.SearchView"

app:showAsAction="ifRoom|collapseActionView"/>

</menu>

Activity Code

Create the option menu and set the listener for SearchView

@Override

       publicbooleanonCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {

              // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.

              getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);

              MenuItemmenuItem = menu.findItem(R.id.action_search);

              SearchViewsearchView = (SearchView) MenuItemCompat

                           .getActionView(menuItem);

              returnsuper.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);

       }

@Override

       publicbooleanonOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {

              // Handle action bar item clicks here. The action bar will

              // automatically handle clicks on the Home/Up button, so long

              // as you specify a parent activity in AndroidManifest.xml.

              int id = item.getItemId();

              if (id == R.id.action_settings) {

                     Intent in = newIntent(MainActivity.this, SecodActivity.class);

                     startActivity(in);

                     returntrue;

              } elseif (id == R.id.action_vj_blog) {

                     returntrue;

              } elseif (id == R.id.action_recahrge) {

                     Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, "Recharge", Toast.LENGTH_LONG)

                                  .show();

                     returntrue;

              }

              returnsuper.onOptionsItemSelected(item);

       }

Set the ActionBar background Color

       ActionBaractionBar = getSupportActionBar();

              actionBar.setBackgroundDrawable(newColorDrawable(Color

                           .parseColor("#FF8800")));

Enable Home Navigation

Suppose the your are in last page of  ur application you want to back to home page.

Now you can enable home navigation in action ba with app icon.

ActionBaractionBar = getSupportActionBar();

       actionBar.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);

       actionBar.setBackgroundDrawable(newColorDrawable(Color.parseColor("#FF4444")));

Manifest  you need to declare Home activity

<activity

android:name="com.vijay.sherlockactionbar.SecodActivity"

android:label="@string/app_name"

android:parentActivityName="com.vijay.sherlockactionbar.MainActivity">

<meta-data

android:name="android:support:PARENT_ACTIVITY"

android:value="com.vijay.sherlockactionbar.MainActivity"/>

</activity>

Manifest.xml

<?xmlversion="1.0"encoding="utf-8"?>

<manifestxmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

package="com.vijay.sherlockactionbar"

android:versionCode="1"

android:versionName="1.0">

<uses-sdk

android:minSdkVersion="8"

android:targetSdkVersion="19"/>

<application

android:allowBackup="true"

android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"

android:label="@string/app_name"

android:theme="@style/AppTheme">

<activity

android:name="com.vijay.sherlockactionbar.MainActivity"

android:label="@string/app_name">

<intent-filter>

<actionandroid:name="android.intent.action.MAIN"/>

<categoryandroid:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"/>

</intent-filter>

</activity>

<activity

android:name="com.vijay.sherlockactionbar.SecodActivity"

android:label="@string/app_name"

android:parentActivityName="com.vijay.sherlockactionbar.MainActivity">

<meta-data

android:name="android:support:PARENT_ACTIVITY"

android:value="com.vijay.sherlockactionbar.MainActivity"/>

</activity>

</application>

</manifest>

packagecom.vijay.sherlockactionbar;

import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity;

import android.support.v7.app.ActionBar;

import android.support.v7.widget.SearchView;

import android.support.v4.app.Fragment;

import android.support.v4.view.MenuItemCompat;

importandroid.content.Intent;

importandroid.graphics.Color;

importandroid.graphics.drawable.ColorDrawable;

importandroid.os.Bundle;

importandroid.view.LayoutInflater;

importandroid.view.Menu;

importandroid.view.MenuItem;

importandroid.view.View;

importandroid.view.View.OnClickListener;

importandroid.view.ViewGroup;

importandroid.widget.Button;

importandroid.widget.Toast;

importandroid.os.Build;

publicclassMainActivityextendsActionBarActivity {

       @Override

       protectedvoidonCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

              super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

              setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

              if (savedInstanceState == null) {

                     getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction()

                                  .add(R.id.container, newPlaceholderFragment()).commit();

              }

              ActionBaractionBar = getSupportActionBar();

              actionBar.setBackgroundDrawable(newColorDrawable(Color

                           .parseColor("#FF8800")));

              Button secondActivity = (Button) findViewById(R.id.second_activity);

              secondActivity.setOnClickListener(newOnClickListener() {

                     @Override

                     publicvoidonClick(View arg0) {

                           Intent in = newIntent(MainActivity.this, SecodActivity.class);

                           startActivity(in);

                     }

              });

       }

       @Override

       publicbooleanonCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {

              // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.

              getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);

              MenuItemmenuItem = menu.findItem(R.id.action_search);

              SearchViewsearchView = (SearchView) MenuItemCompat

                           .getActionView(menuItem);

              returnsuper.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);

       }

       @Override

       publicbooleanonOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {

              // Handle action bar item clicks here. The action bar will

              // automatically handle clicks on the Home/Up button, so long

              // as you specify a parent activity in AndroidManifest.xml.

              int id = item.getItemId();

              if (id == R.id.action_settings) {

                     Intent in = newIntent(MainActivity.this, SecodActivity.class);

                     startActivity(in);

                     returntrue;

              } elseif (id == R.id.action_vj_blog) {

                     returntrue;

              } elseif (id == R.id.action_recahrge) {

                     Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, "Recharge", Toast.LENGTH_LONG)

                                  .show();

                     returntrue;

              }

              returnsuper.onOptionsItemSelected(item);

       }

       /**

        * A placeholder fragment containing a simple view.

        */

       publicstaticclassPlaceholderFragmentextends Fragment {

              publicPlaceholderFragment() {

              }

              @Override

              public View onCreateView(LayoutInflaterinflater, ViewGroup container,

                           Bundle savedInstanceState) {

                     View rootView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_main, container,

                                  false);

                     returnrootView;

              }

       }

}

SecondActivity

packagecom.vijay.sherlockactionbar;

importandroid.app.Activity;

importandroid.graphics.Color;

importandroid.graphics.drawable.ColorDrawable;

importandroid.os.Bundle;

import android.support.v7.app.ActionBar;

import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity;

publicclassSecodActivityextendsActionBarActivity{

       @Override

       protectedvoidonCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

              // TODO Auto-generated method stub

              super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

              ActionBaractionBar = getSupportActionBar();

       actionBar.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);

       actionBar.setBackgroundDrawable(newColorDrawable(Color.parseColor("#FF4444")));

       }

}