Make ActionBar overlay using ActionBarSherlock

Question

The last few days I\'ve been doing great stuff in development, but I\'ve seem to have hit a wall on something probably stupid simple. It\'s annoying. I was hoping I could get so

Answer 1

OK, so apparently, with my set-up, you can't do it using themes.

I ended it up doing it, globally like this.

setTheme(theme.whatever);
requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_ACTION_BAR_OVERLAY);
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.content);
getSupportActionBar().setBackgroundDrawable(getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.color)); // This is #212121 solid color for the dark action bar.

The lines are spread out over my code, but this is the gist of it. The order is important.

I also found out that sliding menu seemed to be blocking the overlay mode. I had to remove the instance for it to work. I'm still looking for a way to enable both overlay mode and the sliding menu.