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Asked: 2026-06-17T06:57:13+00:00

For the need of my application, I needed a custom View in the ActionBar

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For the need of my application, I needed a custom View in the ActionBar (because this view should be modified easily by code)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >

    <item
        android:id="@+id/menu_custom"
        android:actionLayout="@layout/menu_layout"
        android:showAsAction="always"/>

</menu>

That’s not very difficult 😉

Now the problem is that my View does not react visually to the click anymore.
I know that I could use a custom background with pressed/selected/.. state, but I would like to use the default ACtionBar background, so I am sure I won’t break anything on some devices.

I have started looking at ActionBarSherlock and Android source code, but I don’t know exactly where to look.

Thank for any help.

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  1. Editorial Team

    These are the action item background selectors from ActionBarSherlock:

    /res/drawable/abs__item_background_holo_dark.xml
/res/drawable/abs__item_background_holo_light.xml

    and the corresponding files in the SDK:

    <sdk>/platforms/android-<version>/data/res/drawable/item_background_holo_dark.xml
<sdk>/platforms/android-<version>/data/res/drawable/item_background_holo_light.xml
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