Android: getSupportActionBar() always returns null in ActionBarSherlock library

Question

I\'m trying to use the ActionBarSherlock library to provide backwards compatible ActionBar support with tabs in my Android app, so I downloaded the latest build, built the d

Answer 1

Another reason you might get null from getSupportActionBar() is when the activity is used in a TabHost on Honeycomb+.

Answer 2

I make this mistake because i add the toobar in the fragment xml file. The code to find the toolbar in fragment is this:getActivity().findViewByid(id...),but my toolbar is in fragment xml file,so that there was no toolbar found and no toolbar beeing setSipprotActionBar() and also nothing get when getSupportActionBar(). So remember :Do not put the toolbar in your fragment`s xml file.

Answer 3

Depending how your write out code. ensure that you did set the toolbar first before calling it.

  mToolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
        setSupportActionBar(mToolbar);
        getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(true);

Answer 4

I had the same problem on the Android ICS 4.0.4. I was using requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE); on the FragmentActivity, but this was hiding the ActionBar on ICS+ devices that caused the getSupportActionBar() to be null.

Simply removed the:
requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);

And it worked like a charm.

Hope it helps someone.

Answer 5

Heres a funny one: don't set the theme to -

    android:theme="@style/Theme.NoActionbar"

Answer 6

whenever we set customview using sherlock library. just remove this requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE); like this we make customview using sherlock bar library..

            getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
    getSupportActionBar().setDisplayOptions(ActionBar.DISPLAY_SHOW_CUSTOM); 
    getSupportActionBar().setCustomView(R.layout.header_sherlock_xmllayout);
    header_tvleft = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.header_tvleft);
    header_tvleft.setText("Back");