Tutorial: Getting Started with Actionbar Sherlock

How to setup Actionbar Sherlock with your Android project. For more information check about Android apps check out http://www.wiseman-designs.com or for Actionbar Sherlock help go to http://actionbarsherlock.com

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• actionbar
• sherlock
• android
• development
• java

[oas1s2004]

eclipse tells me drawable is not spelled correct and neither is dimen in the styles.xml, it'd be nice if there was more information, and perhaps an FAQ page it seems as though quite a few people are having trouble :[ i love how it looks, i wish i could figure out how to get it to work

[WisemanDesigns]

@oas1s2004 Eclipse's spell checker is what it at play here when it says "drawable is not spelled correctly" - ignore it.

[WisemanDesigns]

@roboguy - Yes this will work on devices < 2.3 (gingerbread) this is why you use the targetSdk and minSdk - we have all of our apps running this and we usually target 2.1 onwards (as not many people have a 1.6 device these days)

[WisemanDesigns]

@amdprophet This tutorial was working for 3.4.0 so I will check and issue an update if required. I would like to wait till version 4.0.0 is released as it is not that far away.

[harpoonlouis]

Hi Graham thanks for your tutorial, saved me a lot of time. If I have ideas for other tutorials can I post them here in the comments?

[WisemanDesigns]

@harpoonlouis Sure you can! I will be adding more tutorials both here and on our website. The next few parts will be on trouble shooting and some of the basic features in ABS. Feel free to post any ideas!

[oas1s2004]

@WisemanDesigns thx

[oas1s2004]

Also as soon as I load that project into my other project like the video shows, i get a red exclamation point on my root project folder in eclipse. No idea how to fix it, it says the bin folder is missing, but it's really there? idk... not enough information for us noobs

[roboguy1215]

With the compatibility libraries, will this work on devices lower than Honeycomb? I'd like to maintain the same look and feel for Honeycomb (and ICS eventually) as well as on Gingerbread and Froyo. Is this possible with the compatibility libraries, or will I have to test the OS programmatically and, if it is lower than 3.0, build a custom ActionBar-esque view? I hope that made sense, haha.

[amdprophet]

Scratch that, I figured out that I had to set the target SDK version to android 3.2. :)

[amdprophet]

This does not seem to be working for 3.5.0 for me as well.

[namoralves]

Nice video, but i can't work with 3.5.0, i make download of project Series from Git, it's project go com_actionbarsherlock and this i can work! Ty for video.