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+page.title=Using the Action Bar
+parent.title=User Interface
+parent.link=index.html
+@jd:body
+
+<div id="qv-wrapper">
+<div id="qv">
+
+ <h2>Quickview</h2>
+ <ul>
+ <li>A replacement for the title bar that includes the application icon and activity title</li>
+ <li>Provides action items from the Options Menu and modes of navigating around the
+application</li>
+ <li>Supports custom views, including an embedded search box</li>
+ <li>Requires API Level HONEYCOMB</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <h2>In this document</h2>
+ <ol>
+ <li><a href="#Adding">Adding the Action Bar</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#ActionItems">Adding Action Items</a>
+ <ol>
+ <li><a href="#Home">Using the application icon as an action item</a></li>
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li><a href="#ActionView">Adding an Action View</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#Tabs">Adding Tabs</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#Dropdown">Adding Drop-down Navigation</a></li>
+ </ol>
+
+ <h2>Key classes</h2>
+ <ol>
+ <li>{@link android.app.ActionBar}</li>
+ <li>{@link android.view.Menu}</li>
+ </ol>
+
+ <h2>See also</h2>
+ <ol>
+ <li><a href="{@docRoot}guide/topics/ui/menus.html">Creating Menus</a></li>
+ </ol>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<p>The Action Bar is a widget for activities that replaces the traditional title bar at
+the top of an activity. By default, the Action Bar includes the application logo on the left side,
+followed by the activity title. The Action Bar offers several useful features for
+applications&mdash;especially those targeted to tablet devices. The Action Bar features include
+the ability to:</p>
+
+<ul>
+ <li>Display items from the <a
+href="{@docRoot}guide/topics/ui/menus.html#OptionsMenu">Options Menu</a> as "action
+items"&mdash;providing instant access to key user actions. (Menu items not appearing as action
+items are placed in the Overflow Menu, revealed by a drop-down in the Action Bar.)</li>
+ <li>Provide tabs for navigating between <a
+href="{@docRoot}guide/topics/fundamentals/fragments.html">fragments</a>.</li>
+ <li>Provide drop-down navigation items.</li>
+ <li>Provide interactive "action views" in place of action items.</li>
+ <li>Use the application logo as a "return home" or "up" navigation action.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<img src="{@docRoot}images/ui/actionbar.png" height="36" alt="" />
+<p class="img-caption"><strong>Figure 1.</strong> A screenshot of the Action Bar in the NotePad
+sample application, containing action items to save and delete the note.</p>
+
+
+<h2 id="Adding">Adding the Action Bar</h2>
+
+<p>To add the Action Bar to your activities, simply target your application for HONEYCOMB or later,
+using the <a href="{@docRoot}guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk-element.html">{@code
+&lt;uses-sdk&gt;}</a> element. That is, by setting either the {@code android:minSdkVersion} or
+{@code android:targetSdkVersion} to HONEYCOMB or later, each activity in your application will
+include the Action Bar when running on devices with HONEYCOMB or later. For example:</p>
+
+<pre>
+&lt;manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
+ package="com.example.helloworld"
+ android:versionCode="1"
+ android:versionName="1.0"&gt;
+ <b>&lt;uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="Froyo" /&gt;</b>
+ &lt;application ... &gt;
+ ...
+ &lt;/application&gt;
+&lt;/manifest&gt;
+</pre>
+
+<p>This also enables the "Holographic" theme for all your activities, which is the new default
+application theme for HONEYCOMB and later.</p>
+
+<p class="note"><strong>Note:</strong> In order for the Holographic theme to be applied based on
+the target platform version, the <a
+href="{@docRoot}guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk-element.html">{@code &lt;uses-sdk&gt;}</a>
+element must appear <em>before</em> the <a
+href="{@docRoot}guide/topics/manifest/application-element.html">{@code &lt;application&gt;}</a>
+element.</p>
+
+<h3>Hide the Action Bar</h3>
+
+<p>If you want to hide the Action Bar for a particular activity, set the activity theme to
+{@code android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar}. For example:</p>
+
+<pre>
+&lt;activity android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar"&gt;
+</pre>
+
+
+<h2 id="ActionItems">Adding Action Items</h2>
+
+<p>For each action item you want to add to the Action Bar, you must add a menu item to the
+activity's <a href="{@docRoot}guide/topics/ui/menus.html#OptionsMenu">Options Menu</a> and declare
+that the item be shown as an action.</p>
+
+<div class="figure" style="width:359px">
+ <img src="{@docRoot}images/ui/actionbar-item-withtext.png" height="57" alt="" />
+ <p class="img-caption"><strong>Figure 2.</strong> A screenshot from an Action Bar with two
+action items.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>You can specify a menu item to appear as an action item&mdash;if there is room
+for it&mdash;from the <a href="{@docRoot}guide/topics/resources/menu-resource.html">menu
+resource</a> by declaring {@code
+android:showAsAction="ifRoom"} for the {@code &lt;item&gt;} element. This way, the item will display
+in the Action Bar for quick access only if there is room available for it&mdash;if there's not
+enough room, the item is placed the Overflow Menu (revealed by the menu icon on the right side
+of the Action Bar). From your application code, you can specify the item to appear as an action item
+by calling {@link android.view.MenuItem#setShowAsAction setShowAsAction()} on the {@link
+android.view.MenuItem} and passing {@link android.view.MenuItem#SHOW_AS_ACTION_IF_ROOM}.</p>
+
+<p>If your item supplies both a title and an icon, then the action item shows only
+the icon by defult. If you want to include the text with the action item, add the <em>with text</em>
+flag&mdash;in XML, add {@code withText} to the {@code android:showAsAction} attribute or, in
+your application code, use the {@link android.view.MenuItem#SHOW_AS_ACTION_WITH_TEXT} flag when
+calling {@link android.view.MenuItem#setShowAsAction setShowAsAction()}. Figure 2 shows a screenshot
+of an Action Bar with two action items that include text.</p>
+
+<p>Here's an example of how you can declare a menu item as an action item in a <a
+href="{@docRoot}guide/topics/resources/menu-resource.html">menu resource</a> file:</p>
+<pre>
+&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
+&lt;menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
+ &lt;item android:id="@+id/menu_add"
+ android:icon="@drawable/ic_menu_save"
+ android:title="@string/menu_save"
+ <b>android:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText"</b> /&gt;
+&lt;/menu&gt;
+</pre>
+
+<p>In this case, both the {@code ifRoom} and {@code withText} flags are set, so that when this
+item appears as an action item, it includes the title text along with the icon.</p>
+
+<p>A menu item placed in the Action Bar triggers the same callback methods as other items in the
+Options Menu. When the user selects an item in the Action Bar, your activity receives a call to
+{@link android.app.Activity#onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem) onOptionsItemSelected()}, passing the
+item ID. (If you added the item from a fragment, then the respective {@link
+android.app.Fragment#onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem) onOptionsItemSelected()} method is called
+for that fragment.)</p>
+
+<p class="note"><strong>Note:</strong> Menu items that appear in the Overflow Menu (not as action
+items) also show an icon, so it's best if you provide an icon for every menu item.</p>
+
+<p>You can also declare an item to <em>always</em> appear as an action item, but you should avoid
+doing so. Most of the time, there will be enough room for several action items and they will appear
+in the order you declare them. If you set items to always appear as action
+items (instead of <em>if room</em>), then they are added without discrimination and there is a risk
+that they will collide with other elements in the Action Bar, such as tabs or custom views.</p>
+
+<p>For more information about menus, see the <a
+href="{@docRoot}guide/topics/ui/menus.html#options-menu">Creating Menus</a> developer guide.</p>
+
+
+<h3 id="Home">Using the application icon as an action item</h3>
+
+<p>By default, the application icon appears in the Action Bar on the left side, but does nothing
+when tapped. To use the application icon as an action item when tapped, you simply need to add a
+condition to your {@link android.app.Activity#onOptionsItemSelected onOptionsItemSelected()} method
+that performs an action when the {@link android.view.MenuItem} ID is {@code android.R.id.home}.
+This ID is delivered every time the user taps the application icon.</p>
+
+<p>For example, here's an implementation of {@link android.app.Activity#onOptionsItemSelected
+onOptionsItemSelected()} that returns to the application's "home" activity:</p>
+
+<pre>
+&#64;Override
+public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
+ switch (item.getItemId()) {
+ case android.R.id.home:
+ // app icon in Action Bar clicked; go home
+ Intent intent = new Intent(this, HomeActivity.class);
+ startActivity(intent);
+ break;
+ }
+ return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
+}
+</pre>
+
+<div class="figure" style="width:144px">
+ <img src="{@docRoot}images/ui/actionbar-logo.png" height="140" alt="" />
+ <p class="img-caption"><strong>Figure 3.</strong> The standard icon for the Email application
+(top) and the "up navigation" icon (bottom).</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>You can also use the application icon to provide "up" navigation. The way you handle the event
+when a user taps the icon is the same, but if the user experience for the event is to <em>navigate
+up to the parent activity</em>, then you should indicate this behavior by setting the
+Action Bar to "show home as up." You can do so by calling {@link
+android.app.ActionBar#setDisplayOptions setDisplayOptions()} on your activity's {@link
+android.app.ActionBar}, and passing the {@link
+android.app.ActionBar#DISPLAY_HOME_AS_UP} display option.</p>
+
+<p>To get the {@link android.app.ActionBar}, call {@link android.app.Activity#getActionBar} from
+your {@link android.app.Activity} during {@link android.app.Activity#onCreate onCreate()} (but be
+sure you do so <em>after</em> you've called {@link android.app.Activity#setContentView
+setContentView()}).</p>
+
+<p>For example, here's how you can change the Action Bar display mode to show the application
+icon as an "up" action:</p>
+
+<pre>
+&#64;Override
+protected void onStart() {
+ super.onStart();
+ ActionBar actionBar = this.getActionBar();
+ actionBar.setDisplayOptions(ActionBar.DISPLAY_HOME_AS_UP, ActionBar.DISPLAY_HOME_AS_UP);
+}
+</pre>
+
+<p class="caution"><strong>Caution:</strong> If your activity does not have an Action Bar (if you
+did not set the theme of your activity or application to the holographic or Action Bar theme), then
+{@link android.app.Activity#getActionBar} returns null.</p>
+
+
+
+<h2 id="ActionView">Adding an Action View</h2>
+
+<div class="figure" style="width:281px">
+ <img src="{@docRoot}images/ui/actionbar-actionview.png" alt="" />
+ <p class="img-caption"><strong>Figure 4.</strong> An action view with a search widget.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p>An action view is a customized view you can specify for an item in your Options Menu, to
+display in the Action Bar when the item is included as an action item. For example, you can
+include a menu item for "Search", which appears and behaves as a normal menu item in the Overflow
+Menu, but, when set as an action item, it provides an action view that is a {@link
+android.widget.SearchView}, so the user can initiate a search directly from the Action Bar.
+Figure 4 shows an example of this, in which a menu item for search provides an action view
+using the {@link android.widget.SearchView} widget.</p>
+
+<p>The best way to declare an action view for an item is in your <a
+href="{@docRoot}guide/topics/resources/menu-resource.html">menu resource</a>, using the {@code
+android:actionLayout} or {@code android:actionViewClass} attribute.</p>
+
+<ul>
+ <li>The value for {@code android:actionLayout} must be a resource pointer to a layout file.
+For example:
+<pre>
+&lt;item android:id="@+id/menu_search"
+ android:title="Search"
+ android:icon="@drawable/ic_menu_search"
+ android:showAsAction="ifRoom"
+ <b>android:actionLayout="@layout/searchview"</b> /&gt;
+</pre></li>
+ <li>The value for {@code android:actionViewClass} must be a fully-qualified class name for
+the {@link android.view.View} you want to use. For example:
+<pre>
+&lt;item android:id="@+id/menu_search"
+ android:title="Search"
+ android:icon="@drawable/ic_menu_search"
+ android:showAsAction="ifRoom"
+ <b>android:actionViewClass="android.widget.SearchView"</b> /&gt;
+</pre></li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>Now, when the menu item is displayed as an action item, it's action view appears instead of
+the item's traditional icon and/or text. Yet, if for some reason the item does not appear in the
+Action Bar, then it behaves like a normal menu item in the Overflow Menu and you must respond
+accordingly when the user taps it, from the {@link android.app.Activity#onOptionsItemSelected
+onOptionsItemSelected()} callback.</p>
+
+<p>When the activity first starts, the system populates the Action Bar and Overflow Menu by calling
+{@link android.app.Activity#onCreateOptionsMenu onCreateOptionsMenu()}.
+After you've inflated your menu in this method, you can acquire elements in an action view
+(perhaps in order to attach listeners) by calling {@link android.view.Menu#findItem
+findItem()} with the ID of the menu item, then {@link android.view.MenuItem#getActionView} on
+the returned {@link android.view.MenuItem}. For example, the search widget from the above samples is
+acquired like this:</p>
+
+<pre>
+&#64;Override
+public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
+ getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.options, menu);
+ SearchView searchView = (SearchView) menu.findItem(R.id.menu_search).getActionView();
+ // Set appropriate listeners for searchView
+ ...
+ return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
+}
+</pre>
+
+<p>For more information about enabling search in the Action Bar, see the <a
+href="{@docRoot}guide/topics/search/index.html">Search</a> developer guide.</p>
+
+
+
+<h2 id="Tabs">Adding Tabs</h2>
+
+<p>The Action Bar can display tabs that allow the user navigate between different fragments in the
+activity. Each tab can include a title and/or an icon.</p>
+
+<!--
+<div class="figure" style="width:300px">
+ <img src="{@docRoot}images/ui/actionbar-tabs.png" alt="" />
+ <p class="img-caption"><strong>Figure 5.</strong> Screenshot of tabs in the
+Action Bar.</p>
+</div>
+-->
+
+<p>To begin, your layout must include a {@link android.view.View} in which each {@link
+android.app.Fragment} associated with a tab is displayed. Be sure the view has an ID that you
+can use to reference it from your code.</p>
+
+<p>To add tabs to the Action Bar:</p>
+<ol>
+ <li>Create an implementation of {@link android.app.ActionBar.TabListener} to handle the
+interaction events on the Action Bar tabs. You must implement all methods: {@link
+android.app.ActionBar.TabListener#onTabSelected onTabSelected()}, {@link
+android.app.ActionBar.TabListener#onTabUnselected onTabUnselected()}, and {@link
+android.app.ActionBar.TabListener#onTabReselected onTabReselected()}.
+ <p>Each callback method passes the {@link android.app.ActionBar.Tab} that received the
+event and a {@link android.app.FragmentTransaction} for you to perform the fragment
+transactions (add or remove fragments).</p>
+ <p>For example:</p>
+<pre>
+private class MyTabListener implements ActionBar.TabListener {
+ private TabContentFragment mFragment;
+
+ // Called to create an instance of the listener when adding a new tab
+ public TabListener(TabContentFragment fragment) {
+ mFragment = fragment;
+ }
+
+ &#64;Override
+ public void onTabSelected(Tab tab, FragmentTransaction ft) {
+ ft.add(R.id.fragment_content, mFragment, null);
+ }
+
+ &#64;Override
+ public void onTabUnselected(Tab tab, FragmentTransaction ft) {
+ ft.remove(mFragment);
+ }
+
+ &#64;Override
+ public void onTabReselected(Tab tab, FragmentTransaction ft) {
+ // do nothing
+ }
+
+}
+</pre>
+ <p>This implementation of {@link android.app.ActionBar.TabListener} adds a constructor
+that saves the {@link android.app.Fragment} associated with a tab so that each callback
+can add or remove that fragment.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>Get the {@link android.app.ActionBar} for your activity by calling {@link
+android.app.Activity#getActionBar} from your {@link android.app.Activity}, during {@link
+android.app.Activity#onCreate onCreate()} (but be sure you do so <em>after</em> you've called
+{@link android.app.Activity#setContentView setContentView()}).</li>
+ <li>Call {@link android.app.ActionBar#setNavigationMode(int)
+setNavigationMode(NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS)} to enable tab mode for the {@link
+android.app.ActionBar}.</li>
+ <li>Create each tab for the Action Bar:
+ <ol>
+ <li>Create a new {@link android.app.ActionBar.Tab} by calling {@link
+android.app.ActionBar#newTab()} on the {@link android.app.ActionBar}.</li>
+ <li>Add title text and/or an icon for the tab by calling {@link
+android.app.ActionBar.Tab#setText setText()} and/or {@link android.app.ActionBar.Tab#setIcon
+setIcon()}.
+ <p class="note"><strong>Tip:</strong> These methods return the same {@link
+android.app.ActionBar.Tab} instance, so you can chain the calls together.</p></li>
+ <li>Declare the {@link android.app.ActionBar.TabListener} to use for the tab by passing an
+instance of your implementation to {@link android.app.ActionBar.Tab#setTabListener
+setTabListener()}.
+ </ol>
+ </li>
+ <li>Add each {@link android.app.ActionBar.Tab} to the Action Bar by calling {@link
+android.app.ActionBar#addTab addTab()} on the {@link android.app.ActionBar} and passing the
+{@link android.app.ActionBar.Tab}.<>
+</ol>
+<p>For example, the following code combines steps 2 - 5 to create two tabs and add them to
+the Action Bar:</p>
+<pre>
+&#64;Override
+protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
+ super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
+ setContentView(R.layout.main);
+
+ // setup Action Bar for tabs
+ final ActionBar actionBar = getActionBar();
+ actionBar.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS);
+ // remove the activity title to make space for tabs
+ actionBar.setDisplayOptions(0, ActionBar.DISPLAY_SHOW_TITLE);
+
+ // instantiate fragment for the tab
+ Fragment artistsFragment = new ArtistsFragment();
+ // add a new tab and set its title text and tab listener
+ actionBar.addTab(actionBar.newTab().setText(R.string.tab_artists)
+ .setTabListener(new TabListener(artistsFragment)));
+
+ Fragment albumsFragment = new AlbumsFragment();
+ actionBar.addTab(actionBar.newTab().setText(R.string.tab_albums)
+ .setTabListener(new TabListener(albumsFragment)));
+}
+</pre>
+
+<p>All the behaviors that occur when a tab is selected must be defined by your {@link
+android.app.ActionBar.TabListener} callback methods. When a tab is selected, it receives a call to
+{@link android.app.ActionBar.TabListener#onTabSelected onTabSelected()} and that's where you should
+add the appropriate fragment to the designated view in your layout, using {@link
+android.app.FragmentTransaction#add add()} with the provided {@link
+android.app.FragmentTransaction}. Likewise, when a tab is deselected (because another tab becomes
+selected), you should remove that fragment from the layout, using {@link
+android.app.FragmentTransaction#remove remove()}.</p>
+
+<p class="note"><strong>Note:</strong> You <strong>do not</strong> need
+to call {@link android.app.FragmentTransaction#commit} for these transactions. You also
+<strong>cannot</strong> add these fragment transactions to the back stack.</p>
+
+<p>If your activity is stopped, you should retain the currently selected tab with the saved state so
+that when the user returns to your application, you can open the tab. When it's time to save the
+state, you can query the currently selected tab with {@link
+android.app.ActionBar#getSelectedNavigationIndex()}. This returns the index position of the selected
+tab.</p>
+
+<p class="caution"><strong>Caution:</strong> It's important that you save
+the state of each fragment as necessary, so when the user switches fragments with the tabs,
+then returns to a previous fragment, it appears the way they left. For information about saving
+the state of your fragment, see the <a
+href="{@docRoot}guide/topics/fundamentals/fragments.html">Fragments</a> developer guide.</p>
+
+
+
+<h2 id="Dropdown">Adding Drop-down Navigation</h2>
+
+<p>As another mode of navigation within your activity, you can provide a drop-down list in the
+Action Bar. For example, the drop-down list can provide alternative modes for sorting the content in
+the activity or switching the user's account.</p>
+
+<!--
+<div class="figure" style="width:135px">
+ <img src="{@docRoot}images/ui/actionbar-dropdown.png" alt="" />
+ <p class="img-caption"><strong>Figure 5.</strong> Screenshot of a drop-down navigation list in the
+Action Bar.</p>
+</div>
+-->
+
+<p>Here's a quick list of what you must do to enable drop-down navigation:</p>
+
+<ol>
+ <li>Create a {@link android.widget.SpinnerAdapter} that provides the
+list of selectable items for the list and the layout to use when drawing each item in the list.</li>
+ <li>Implement {@link android.app.ActionBar.OnNavigationListener} to define the behavior when the
+user selects an item from the list.</li>
+ <li>Turn on navigation mode for the Action Bar with {@link
+android.app.ActionBar#setNavigationMode setNavigationMode()}. For example:
+<pre>
+ActionBar actionBar = getActionBar();
+actionBar.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_LIST);
+</pre>
+ <p>You should perform this during your activity's {@link android.app.Activity#onCreate
+onCreate()} method.</p>
+ </li>
+ <li>Following that, set the callback for your drop-down list with {@link
+android.app.ActionBar#setListNavigationCallbacks setListNavigationCallbacks()}. For example:
+<pre>
+actionBar.setListNavigationCallbacks(mSpinnerAdapter, mNavigationCallback);
+</pre>
+<p>This method takes your {@link android.widget.SpinnerAdapter} and {@link
+android.app.ActionBar.OnNavigationListener}. More about these next.</p>
+</li>
+</ol>
+
+<p>That's the basic setup. The {@link android.widget.SpinnerAdapter} and {@link
+android.app.ActionBar.OnNavigationListener} is where most of the work is done. There are many ways
+you can implement these to define the functionality for your drop-down navigation. Implementing
+various types of {@link android.widget.SpinnerAdapter} is beyond the scope of this
+document&mdash;you should refer to the class refrence for more information about implementing it or
+extending an existing implementation. However, below is a simple example for a {@link
+android.widget.SpinnerAdapter} and {@link android.app.ActionBar.OnNavigationListener} to get you
+started.</p>
+
+
+<h3 id="Spinner">Example: simple SpinnerAdapter</h3>
+
+<p>{@link android.widget.SpinnerAdapter} is an interface that you can implement to provide
+content for the list and is where your implementation for the drop-down list can be heavily
+customized. Android includes some useful implementations that you can extend, such as {@link
+android.widget.ArrayAdapter} and {@link
+android.widget.SimpleCursorAdapter}. For example, here's an easy way to create a {@link
+android.widget.SpinnerAdapter} with {@link android.widget.ArrayAdapter}, using a string array
+from resources:</p>
+
+<pre>
+SpinnerAdapter mSpinnerAdapter = ArrayAdapter.createFromResource(this, R.array.action_list,
+ android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);
+</pre>
+
+<p>This is now ready to be given to {@link
+android.app.ActionBar#setListNavigationCallbacks setListNavigationCallbacks()}, in step 4 from
+above.</p>
+
+<p>A <a href="{@docRoot}guide/topics/resources/string-resource.html#StringArray">string array</a>
+defined as a resource looks like this:</p>
+
+<pre>
+&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
+&lt;resources&gt;
+ &lt;string-array name="action_list"&gt;
+ &lt;item&gt;Mercury&lt;/item&gt;
+ &lt;item&gt;Venus&lt;/item&gt;
+ &lt;item&gt;Earth&lt;/item&gt;
+ &lt;/string-array&gt;
+&lt;/pre&gt;
+</pre>
+
+
+<h3 id="OnNavigationListener">Example: simple OnNavigationListener</h3>
+
+<p>Your implementation of {@link android.app.ActionBar.OnNavigationListener} is where you handle
+fragment changes or other modifications to your activity when the user selects an item from the
+drop-down list. There's only one callback method to implement: {@link
+android.app.ActionBar.OnNavigationListener#onNavigationItemSelected onNavigationItemSelected()}.</p>
+
+<p>The {@link
+android.app.ActionBar.OnNavigationListener#onNavigationItemSelected onNavigationItemSelected()}
+method receives the position of the item in the list and an item ID provided by the {@link
+android.widget.SpinnerAdapter}.</p>
+
+<p>Here's an example that instantiates an anonymous implementation of {@link
+android.app.ActionBar.OnNavigationListener}, which inserts a {@link android.app.Fragment} into the
+layout container identified by {@code R.id.fragment_container}:</p>
+
+<pre>
+mOnNavigationListener = new OnNavigationListener() {
+ // Get the same strings provided for the drop-down's ArrayAdapter
+ String[] strings = getResources().getStringArray(R.array.action_list);
+
+ &#64;Override
+ public boolean onNavigationItemSelected(int position, long itemId) {
+ // Create new fragment from our own Fragment class
+ ListContentFragment newFragment = new ListContentFragment();
+ FragmentTransaction ft = openFragmentTransaction();
+ // Replace whatever is in the fragment container with this fragment
+ // and give the fragment a tag name equal to the string at the position selected
+ ft.replace(R.id.fragment_container, newFragment, strings[position]);
+ // Apply changes
+ ft.commit();
+ return true;
+ }
+};
+</pre>
+
+<p>This instance of {@link android.app.ActionBar.OnNavigationListener} can be given to {@link
+android.app.ActionBar#setListNavigationCallbacks setListNavigationCallbacks()}, in step 4 from
+above.</p>
+
+<p>In this example, the fragment added is given a tag that can uniquely identify the fragment.
+For this example, the {@code ListContentFragment} class used uses this tag as
+the text for a {@link android.widget.TextView} in the fragment's layout. Here's how it's done:</p>
+
+<pre>
+public class ListContentFragment extends Fragment {
+ private String mText;
+
+ &#64;Override
+ public void onAttach(Activity activity) {
+ // This is the first callback received; here we can set the text for
+ // the fragment as defined by the tag specified during the fragment transaction
+ super.onAttach(activity);
+ mText = getTag();
+ }
+
+ &#64;Override
+ public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
+ Bundle savedInstanceState) {
+ // This is called to define the layout for the fragment;
+ // we just create a TextView and set its text to be the fragment tag
+ TextView text = new TextView(getActivity());
+ text.setText(mText);
+ return text;
+ }
+}
+</pre>
+
+
+
+