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Android

Posted by khaled doom
khaled doom
341 Points

ActionBar in API Level 21 !!

I am running Android Studio 1.0.1 and set my (compile SDK 21, and trying to type the following code :

import android.app.ActionBar;

ActionBar actionbar=getActionBar();
actionBar.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS);

but find that method setNavigationMode(); has deprecated in API Level 21 that i run ,Then i tried to import the ActionBar from support.v7 to use getSupportActionBar();

import android.support.v7.app.ActionBar;

ActionBar actionbar=getSupportActionBar();

but this time i found that getSupportActionBar(); method is not available , so what is the solution now!!

I am waiting for your support guys , and Thanks in Advance

4 Answers

James Simshaw
James Simshaw
28,738 Points
James Simshaw
James Simshaw
28,738 Points

Hello,

What is your activity extending? I believe for using the support library's ActionBar, you need to extend ActionBarActivity. If this isn't what you're looking for please let me know and we can try some other things.

khaled doom
khaled doom
341 Points
khaled doom
khaled doom
341 Points

Hello James ,,

i was extending (Activity) then i change it to (ActionBarActivity) as you advice , and import ActionBar from support library's ActionBar

now i can reach to : ActionBar actionbar=getSupportActionBar();

but still unable to use 

              actionbar.setNavigationMode();

it's deprecated in API Level 21 that i set as platform SDK

James Simshaw
James Simshaw
28,738 Points
James Simshaw
James Simshaw
28,738 Points

There aren't really that many options for getting around this that I know of. You can either ignore the deprecation warning, try one of the new design practices as mentioned here, or try one of the suggestions in the stackoverflow article I found here.

khaled doom
khaled doom
341 Points
khaled doom
khaled doom
341 Points

Hi James Thanks for your reply , I changed my platform SDK to 19 inorder to continue the project of Ribbit.