Styling the ActionBar – Part 4

In the previous article in this series we applied a style to the navigation Spinner and its associated drop down ListView, but found that this style did not get applied to the Spinner that we added manually using the actionViewClass attribute of the MenuItem definition in our menu XML. In this article we’ll find out…

Styling the ActionBar – Part 1

Recently on Styling Android we’ve been looking at the ActionBar, but this would not be complete without having a look at how we can customise the look and feel of our ActionBar. Up to know the stuff that we’ve looked at on ActionBar has been relatively straightforward, however getting the styling right can be a…

ActionMode

Following on from the recent series on basic ActionBar, we’ll now have a look at concept which can really make our ActionBar even more powerful: ActionMode.

Basic ActionBar – Part 5

In the previous article we looked at using different controls in our ActionBar to provide custom behaviour. That’s all well and good, but suppose we actually want to do something a little more complex? In this article we’ll have a look at how we can use custom layouts within our ActionBar.

Basic ActionBar – Part 3

In the previous article we got tab-based navigation working. Tab-based navigation works well when you have two or three navigation options, but does not work as well when there are more. Dropdown-based navigation is better suited when we a slightly larger number number of navigation options, and in this article we’ll cover how to create…