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Android Implementing Designs for Android Customizing the Action Bar Using the Action Bar Style Generator

Misbhauddin Mohammed
Misbhauddin Mohammed
3,834 Points
Posted by Misbhauddin Mohammed
Misbhauddin Mohammed
3,834 Points

not working on android studio

I'm using Android Studio and I followed your instructions but it didn't work also I checked the other Question ( IF USING Android Studio) and it didn't work.

Timothy Boland
Timothy Boland
18,237 Points
Timothy Boland
Timothy Boland
18,237 Points

Was there a final resolution to this? Looks like Android Action Bar Style Generator has been deprecated since around October 2014 and is recommending using:

ToolBar: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/Toolbar.html http://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v7/widget/Toolbar.html

3 Answers

Joseph Ambrose
Joseph Ambrose
6,629 Points
Joseph Ambrose
Joseph Ambrose
6,629 Points

I went around and around on this trying to get it to work using appCompat. Finally I gave up and went back to using the Holo theme. To do this you will need to change the support library in your gradle to the following:

compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:19.1.+'

Then you will need to go thru all of your themes to make sure they are using the Holo theme.

Then you need to go through all of you activities to make sure they are using the correct support library for the imports.

It is a little bit of a pain but works.

Slava Fleer
Slava Fleer
6,086 Points
Slava Fleer
Slava Fleer
6,086 Points

strange. I did on Android studio exactly as in Ben video and all worked.

Dave Bond
Dave Bond
1,180 Points
Dave Bond
Dave Bond
1,180 Points

I had to choose "appcompat" as the style compatibility in the action bar style generator. That got everything working except the EditFriendsActivity and RecipientsActivity. I wasn't able to get the actionbar to show unless i went to the android manifest file under each of those activities and tried what someone else suggested and putting android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Holo.Light.DarkActionBar" under each one or else an action bar wouldn't show at all. Anyone have any ideas on a fix?