Hi All, We're trying to use ActionBars on Honeycomb and stay backward compatible with earlier code. Everything seemed to be fine when we just used the default behaviors, like the upgrade of options menus to show in the action bar as Actions.
But then the requirements got broader and they wanted us to start styling the action bar, setting its background, adding the "go to home" indicator to the icon and other things and we lost our backwards compatibility. I've been trying to figure it out and saw this paragaph in the "using action bars" document: --- In this example, the application requires a minimum version of API Level 4 (Android 1.6), but it also targets API Level 11 (Android 3.0). This way, when the application is installed on a device running Android 3.0 or greater, the system applies the holographic theme to each activity, and thus, each activity includes the Action Bar. However, if you want to use Action Bar APIs, such as to add tabs or modify Action Bar styles, you need to set the android:minSdkVersion to "11", so you can access the ActionBar class. --- This seems to say that if we want to talk to the ActionBar directly, i.e. use the Action Bar API, that we have to set our minSdkVerion="11" in the manifest. I'm having an argument with my boss, who thinks that since it "works" on Honeycomb, that the above excerpt does not apply to us. But I point out that when I comment out the code that tries to talk to the action bar directly, then I don't get Verify Errors on pre-Honeycomb devices. Everything used to work fine before we started trying to talk to the Action Bar directly. So, does that section, specifically the second paragraph that starts with "However", which seems to modify the paragraph before it, really apply? If so, why can we talk to the ActionBar on Honeycomb devices, despite our minSdkVersion="8". Our access to the action bar is wrapped in a wrapper class, as described in the "backwards compatilibility" article. Thanks!! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
