Re: [android-developers] Re: Role of the Compatibility Library?

Check out ActionBarSherlock, which wraps the HC action bar on HC and
supplies an alternative implementation for older devices. Works much
like the ACL (even to the point where the author used an android.*
package name, which is really not a good idea).

On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 6:34 AM, b0b <pujos.michael@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would really like to see ActionBar support added in the compat
> library.
> Since on Android pre-Honeycomb, the action bar pattern is more and
> more used (in place of the options menu),
> adding ActionBar support in the compat library (maybe with some
> restrictions like no navigation views) would be a great addition for
> apps that made the effort to use it in 3.x.
>
> I know that for my particular app to which I updated recenlty to use
> the ActionBar, I could remove the non ActionBar alternate code (which
> does sth similar to the ActionBar) if it was supported in the compat
> library.
>
> I'll guess we'll have to wait for ICS to get this stuff unified.
>
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