Looking for some guidance on whether to use the ActionBar or not. The problem is that the ActionBar takes away a major amount of real estate on the screen. That's not a problem on tablets. It is on phones though for my app.
With Ice Cream Sandwich bringing ActionBars to phones, I'm in trouble: I need a way to use the ActionBar on tablet size devices, while using the regular way to display menus on phones. I can think of two ways to handle this: 1: Resolution specific menu.xml This has the problem though that there are phones that have higher resolutions than tablets. So this won't work. 2: Implement a preferences setting to hide the ActionBar I can implement a preferences setting for my App to go for full screen display and hide the ActionBar. This works well. The bummer here is that once the menu is hidden it stays hidden. A user can only reach the preferences via the menu again - but I've hidden that so he can't. Once I disable the ActionBar on a Honeycomb tablet, there is no way the user can himself invoke the menu again. How are you guys handling this dilemma? -- 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
