getActionBar() returns null

Question

I\'m having an odd problem. I am making an app with targetsdk 13.

In my main activity\'s onCreate method i call getActionBar() to setup my actionbar. T

Answer 1

In my case, I had this in my code which did not work:

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    context = getApplicationContext();

    requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_ACTION_BAR);

    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
}

Then I played with the order of the code:

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_ACTION_BAR);

    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    context = getApplicationContext();
}

And it worked!

Conclusion: requestWindowFeature should be the first thing you call in the onCreate method.