Monthly Archives: May 2013

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Themes for the Android ActionBar – Drop-downs

In the previous post, we dealt with theming tabs in the Android ActionBar. The ActionBar provides an alternate type of navigation – a drop-down list. You can specifically request this via: or you can sometimes unexpectedly find yourself in this situation if you try to create a lot of tabs, since Android may choose to […]

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Themes for the Android ActionBar – Tabs

Since Android 3.0 (a.k.a. “Honeycomb”) the ActionBar has been the workhorse of “standard” Android user interfaces. The nice folks over at ActionBarSherlock.com have also created a set of classes and resources that allow you to build ActionBar-based UI’s all the way back to Android 2.0 (“Eclair”). Unfortunately, customizing the look of the ActionBar is not, […]

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