Chapter 10
Exploring ActionBar
ActionBar was introduced in the Android 3.0 SDK for tablets and is now available for phones as well in 4.0. It allows you to customize the title bar of an activity. Prior to the 3.0 SDK release, the title bar of an activity merely contained the title of an activity. Android ActionBar is modeled similar to the menu/title bar of a web browser.
NOTE: This chapter refers to both ActionBar and action bar. ActionBar refers to the actual class, and action bar means the concept.
The 3.0 SDK is optimized and available only for tablets. This means the action bar API is not available for phones that run Android versions ...
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