Android ActionBar - Push custom view to bottom of screen

Question

I\'ve got a split ActionBar, and I\'m trying to add functionality almost identical to google play\'s \'Now playing\'..

I can get menu items to appear at the bottom of th

Answer 1

So I managed to find a dirty solution to this.. Well, dirty in my amateurish opinion..

In the oncreateOptionsMenu, I've inflated a menu called option_menu like so:

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        new MenuInflater(this).inflate(R.menu.option_menu, menu);

And in the xml for that option_menu item, I've implemented an actionViewClass, and in this case I've used relative layout (I'm guessing I could've just used View..?):

So then I inflated an xml layout, and added it to the layout_item defined in my menu:

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        new MenuInflater(this).inflate(R.menu.option_menu, menu);
        relativeLayout = (RelativeLayout) menu.findItem(R.id.layout_item)
                .getActionView();

        View inflatedView = getLayoutInflater().inflate(R.layout.now_playing,
                null);

        relativeLayout.addView(inflatedView);

        return (super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu));
    }

Please feel free to edit/enhance this answer as you see fit.