Integrate ActionBarSherlock

[andlyticsproject]

Integrate ActionBarSherlock

[fda77]

A lot of - !
I Dont have Android 3.0

What API level should I target in my manifest when using the library?

Targetting API level 11 or newer is required as it will cause Android to automatically add the native action bar when run on newer devices. Since you will be compiling against new APIs but your app will likely be run on devices with older versions of Android extra care must be taken to either avoid using or properly check and call any methods that were introduced after your minimum SDK version.

[AndyScherzinger]

Just target 15.

ABS will transparently use the native actionbar on Honeycomb and up and use its own below going back 1.6 or 2.1 but the look and feel is exactly the same.

[AndyScherzinger]

Compiling again 15 isn't a problem since we also configured the minSDK so lint will show errors in case we use an API which isn't present in ALL supported Android versions :-)

[AndyScherzinger]

Checkout Hubroid for example, which uses the ABS

[fda77]

If it runs with my "old" 2.3 device it doesn't matter :9

[AndyScherzinger]

Did you already start on this issue? Just asking so we don't do the integration twice.

[AndyScherzinger]

Yes it definitely runs at least on 2.1+ devices!

[AndyScherzinger]

Check the demo App on the market to get an impression of the ABS :)

[fda77]

Did you already start on this issue? Just asking so we don't do the integration twice.

Me? No

Sound fine
The library will automatically use the native action bar when appropriate or will automatically wrap a custom implementation around your layouts. This allows you to easily develop an application with an action bar for every version of Android from 2.x and up.

[schoentoon]

ActionBarSherlock is awesome! It can certainly enhance AndLytics if it got the ActionBar.

[fda77]

Take a look the fork of @AndyScherzinger

[schoentoon]

Certainly heading the right direction, already detected a few small bugs. But I'll address those once it get's merged, likely even fix them when I have the time. Keep up the good work @AndyScherzinger

[AndyScherzinger]

pull request:
#87

[willlunniss]

Is it not 'better' to use a git submodule (I think they are the equivilant of svn externals), to link directly to a specific ABS tag for easier updating of ABS.

http://speirs.org/blog/2009/5/11/understanding-git-submodules.html

[AndyScherzinger]

Will have to take a look at this, knew that submodules would be the way to go, but couldn't get it working...so I checked in the code itself...

[AndyScherzinger]

@schoentoon it's merged :) Happy forking!