Question

Having

<item name="android:actionBarDivider">@drawable/action_bar_divider</item>

in my Activity style has zero effect. Doesn’t matter if I’m using native ActionBar or ActionBarSherlock. Why?

Answer 1

I worked around it by programatically inserting dividers into the view hierarchy. It occured to me later that dividers may be only visible in the bottom action bar (I needed them at the top bar). But I didn’t verify that.

public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(com.actionbarsherlock.view.Menu menu) {
    MenuInflater inflater = getSupportMenuInflater();
    inflater.inflate(R.menu.main_activity, menu);

    new Handler().post(new Runnable() {
        @Override
        public void run() {
            for (int id : new int[] { R.id.action_1, R.id.action_2 }) {
                View actionView = findViewById(id);
                insertDividerBefore(actionView);
            }
        }
    });

    return true;
}