On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Brion Emde <[email protected]> wrote: > In this example, the application requires a minimum version of API > Level 4 (Android 1.6), but it also targets API Level 11 (Android 3.0). > This way, when the application is installed on a device running > Android 3.0 or greater, the system applies the holographic theme to > each activity, and thus, each activity includes the Action Bar. > > However, if you want to use Action Bar APIs, such as to add tabs or > modify Action Bar styles, you need to set the android:minSdkVersion to > "11", so you can access the ActionBar class.
Generally speaking, this is incorrect, AFAICT. The action bar is no different than anything else in Android. > I'm having an argument with my boss, who thinks that since it "works" > on Honeycomb, that the above excerpt does not apply to us. But I point > out that when I comment out the code that tries to talk to the action > bar directly, then I don't get Verify Errors on pre-Honeycomb devices. > Everything used to work fine before we started trying to talk to the > Action Bar directly. Perhaps you need to try another backwards-compatibility approach. Here is a sample project that uses getActionView() -- an HC-only action bar-related method -- successfully on HC and works correctly on earlier Android versions: https://github.com/commonsguy/cw-android/tree/master/Menus/ActionBarBC -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy _The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development_ Version 3.5 Available! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
