[HELP！！！！] Action Bar not show up in RecipientsActivity and EditFriendsActivity.

Hi, i have google some information and made some changes on it, and it is working now. Currently, i'm still learning, so it probably not a very good solution. I posted my code here for reference. Hope it helps !

In activity_recipients.xml, i changed the @android:id/list to @+id/RecipientsList .

    <ListView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:id="@+id/RecipientsList"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentStart="true"/>

In RecipientsActivity.java,

• First, i changed to extend ActionBarActivity instead of ListActivity.
• Then, declare the ListView by using ButterKnife or findViewById.
• Change all the getListView() method to the member variable of ListView you have declared.
• In onCreate method, add setOnItemClickListener method and copy and paste the content from the onListItemClick method. Add getCheckedItemCount() method and use it in if statement.
• Comment the onListItemClick method because it is no more functioning without ListActivity.

public class RecipientsActivity extends ActionBarActivity {

    public static final String TAG = RecipientsActivity.class.getSimpleName();

    protected List<ParseUser> mFriends;
    protected ParseRelation<ParseUser> mFriendsRelation;
    protected ParseUser mCurrentUser;

    protected MenuItem mSendMenuItem;


        @InjectView(R.id.RecipientsList) ListView mRecipientListView;
        @InjectView(R.id.empty_friend_list) TextView mEmptyFriendList;    

        @Override
        protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
            super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
            setContentView(R.layout.activity_recipients);

            ButterKnife.inject(this);

            mRecipientListView.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {
                @Override
                public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> adapterView, View view, int i, long l) {
                     if(getCheckedItemCount() > 0){
                       mSendMenuItem.setVisible(true);
                   }else{
                       mSendMenuItem.setVisible(false);
                   }
                }
            });

            mRecipientListView.setChoiceMode(ListView.CHOICE_MODE_MULTIPLE);
        }


        @Override
        public void onResume() {
            super.onResume();

            mCurrentUser = ParseUser.getCurrentUser();
            mFriendsRelation = mCurrentUser.getRelation(ParseConstants.KEY_FRIENDS_RELATIONS);

            ParseQuery<ParseUser> query = mFriendsRelation.getQuery();
            query.addAscendingOrder(ParseConstants.KEY_USERNAME);

            query.findInBackground(new FindCallback<ParseUser>() {
                @Override
                public void done(List<ParseUser> friends, ParseException e) {

                    if (e == null) {
                        mFriends = friends;

                        String[] usernames = new String[mFriends.size()];
                        int i = 0;
                        for (ParseUser user : mFriends) {
                            usernames[i] = user.getUsername();
                            i++;
                        }
                        ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(
                                mRecipientListView.getContext(),
                                android.R.layout.simple_list_item_checked,
                                usernames);

                        mRecipientListView.setAdapter(adapter);
                        mRecipientListView.setEmptyView(mEmptyFriendList);

                    } else {

                        Log.e(TAG, e.getMessage());
                        AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(RecipientsActivity.this);
                        builder.setMessage(e.getMessage())
                                .setTitle(R.string.error_title)
                                .setPositiveButton(android.R.string.ok, null);
                        AlertDialog dialog = builder.create();
                        dialog.show();


                    }
                }
            });
        }

         public int getCheckedItemCount() {
        ListView listView = mRecipientListView;
        if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB) {
            return listView.getCheckedItemCount();
        }

        SparseBooleanArray checkedItems = listView.getCheckedItemPositions();
        int count = 0;
        for (int i = 0, size = checkedItems.size(); i < size; ++i) {
            if (checkedItems.valueAt(i)) {
                count++;
            }
        }
        return count;
    }

        @Override
        public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
            // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
            getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_recipients, menu);
            mSendMenuItem = menu.getItem(0);
            return true;
        }

         @Override
            public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
 .
                switch(item.getItemId()){
                case android.R.id.home:             
                NavUtils.navigateUpFromSameTask(this);
                return true;
                case R.id.action_send :
                    return true;
                }

                return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
            }
}

See Billy Ashmall's answer here: https://teamtreehouse.com/forum/action-bar-not-show-up-in-recipientsactivity-and-editfriendsactivity

These are the only changes I needed to make, that differed from Ben's code to get things to work:

1) After setContentView in onCreate() make sure you have setupActionBar(), or if you don't have this method in your class you can can instead use getActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true), which is simply the code that gets executed when setupActionBar() is called. Do the same for EditFriendsActivity if you are having the same issue there.

2) in the manifest for RecipientsActivity add android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Holo.Light". Once again, include this line for EditFriendsActivity if needed.

3) Finally, as Devanshu mentions in this post, the item in menu_recipients.xml should read: android:showAsAction="always" (This is the same code Ben uses in the video as well). I know Android Studio underlines this in red and suggests using app, but the icon only appears android.

Hi Wei-Ting Chen ,

It seems that you need to correct your menu recipient.xml.

It should say -

android:showAsAction = "always"

and not -

app:showAsAction = "always" 

(or "ifRoom" for that matter).

Update :

1. Also add setupActionBar() in onCreate() after setContentView().

I also experienced this issue and made some progress by defining and calling setupActionBar() - as suggested by Wei-Ting Chen - using the code sample for this step as a reference.

Unfortunately, that caused other issues that I wasn't able to fix.

I appreciate that Treehouse was in an awkward position when creating this tutorial, as Android Studio was still in beta, yet looming on the horizon. However, I'm of the opinion that they should have insisted that all users use Eclipse and not provide any support, teachers' notes, etc. for Android Studio.

Yes, this is rather frustrating....

Here's what I ended up doing to work around this, using EditFriendsActivity as the example:

1) Change to extending AppCompatActivity in EditFriendsActivity.java

public class EditFriendsActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

2) Add a ListView as a member of EditFriendsActivity.java

private ListView mListView;

Add it in the layout activity_edit_friends.xml. Note I'm no longer using the android namespace for the ID.

<ListView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:id="@+id/edit_friends_listview"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentStart="true"/>

While you're in activity_edit_friends.xml, update the empty textview, we'll use this later. Note again, not using android namespace for the ID:

<TextView
        android:id="@+id/edit_friends_empty"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/edit_friends_empty"/>

3) Next, let's use these in a similar fashion as before in EditFriendsActivity.java:

3a) Initialize the ListView

mListView = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.edit_friends_listview);
mListView.setChoiceMode(ListView.CHOICE_MODE_MULTIPLE);

3b) We were overriding the onListItemClicked method of the ListActivity previously, so we need to do something similar for our new ListView. I did this at the end of the onCreate method:

        ...
        mListView.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View view, int position, long id) {
                if(mListView.isItemChecked(position)) {
                    mFriendsRelation.add(mUsers.get(position));
                }
                else {
                    //remove friend
                    mFriendsRelation.remove(mUsers.get(position));
                }
                mCurrentUser.saveInBackground(new SaveCallback() {
                    @Override
                    public void done(ParseException e) {
                        if (e == null) {
                            //success
                        } else {
                            Log.e(TAG, e.getMessage());
                        }
                    }
                });
            }
        });

3c) Finally, I found this method that seems to work for setting an empty view when the ListView has no elements. I placed this right after the previous step, also in the onCreate method:

        mListView.setEmptyView((View) findViewById(R.id.edit_friends_empty));

3d) Now, do some cleanup of the remainder of the class. For example:

• Change any getListView() to use member variable mListView instead. Many of the method calls are the same.
• Change setListAdapter to mListView.setAdapter
• Comment out the Overridden onListItemClick method

Hi kevin,

I followed your steps is this for editfrinedsactivity or recipientsactivity?

my program compiles fine. I can take a picture or a 10 sec video. Then I press ok on the picture or video, Im able to choose my friends from a list of my added friends.

The problem is that there is no actionbar displayed and with no actionbar there is no send button displayed as it is involved with the actionbar. Since the release of this video things have been deprecated and the course is outdated.

Do you have any informantion on how to deal with my problem so i can move onto the next part.

Thank you, TheBigOso

here is my github https://github.com/TheBigOso/RibbitSendButton

RecipientsActivity.Java

package com.fartyou.thedirtyappstore.ribbit2;

import android.app.AlertDialog;
import android.app.ListActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.view.Window;
import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
import android.widget.ListView;
import com.parse.FindCallback;
import com.parse.ParseException;
import com.parse.ParseRelation;
import com.parse.ParseUser;
import java.util.List;

public class RecipientsActivity extends ListActivity {

    public static final String TAG = RecipientsActivity.class.getSimpleName();
    protected List<ParseUser> mFriends;
    protected ParseRelation<ParseUser> mFriendsRelation;
    protected ParseUser mCurrentUser;
    protected MenuItem mSendMenuItem;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_INDETERMINATE_PROGRESS);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_recipients);
        getListView().setChoiceMode(ListView.CHOICE_MODE_MULTIPLE);
    }

    @Override
    public void onResume() {
        super.onResume();

        mCurrentUser = ParseUser.getCurrentUser();
        mFriendsRelation = mCurrentUser.getRelation(ParseConstants.KEY_FRIENDS_RELATION);
        mFriendsRelation.getQuery().findInBackground(new FindCallback<ParseUser>() {
            @Override
            public void done(List<ParseUser> friends, ParseException e) {

                if (e == null) {
                    mFriends = friends;

                    String[] usernames = new String[mFriends.size()];
                    int i = 0;
                    for (ParseUser user : mFriends) {
                        usernames[i] = user.getUsername();
                        i++;
                    }
                    ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(
                            getListView().getContext(),
                            android.R.layout.simple_list_item_checked,
                            usernames);
                    setListAdapter(adapter);
                } else {
                    Log.e(TAG, e.getMessage());
                    AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(RecipientsActivity.this);
                    builder.setMessage(e.getMessage())
                            .setTitle(R.string.error_title)
                            .setPositiveButton(android.R.string.ok, null);
                    AlertDialog dialog = builder.create();
                    dialog.show();
                }
            }
        });
    }
}

activity_recipients.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    tools:context="com.fartyou.thedirtyappstore.ribbit2.RecipientsActivity">

    <ListView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:id="@android:id/list"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentStart="true"/>

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:id="@android:id/empty"
        android:text="@string/empty_recipients_list_message"
        />
</RelativeLayout>