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Asked: 2026-06-02T08:30:57+00:00

I am trying to create a custom title bar strictly for Android 2.1 that

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I am trying to create a custom title bar strictly for Android 2.1 that somewhat emulates the ActionBar found in Android 3.0 and up.

So far I’ve had fairly decent luck, but I cannot find an easy way to make the drop-down lists that can appear below the icon / buttons in the ActionBar.

I would like these drop-down lists to be able to cross the boundary between the title layout and the content layout without being clipped / cut off. I would also like the drop-down lists to be positioned relatively below the icons / buttons in the ActionBar. I’ve seen advice to use FrameLayouts and RelativeLayouts already but these did not seem to solve my particular problem (unless I’m looking at it wrong). I keep thinking it must be possible since I believe the newer versions of Android have support for exactly this type of behavior.

Here is a screenshot of what I am trying to accomplish with some notes.
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/3279/67343249.png

Please help. Thanks!!!

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  1. Editorial Team

    After a few days of research I found the best way to implement this is to use a custom dialog box with a custom theme that contains a listView. When the user clicks on the button the dialog should be displayed directly below the button. This provides a good user experience and also means you don’t have to completely change your basic layout structure to accomodate this functionality. (This is basically the same approach that ActionBar Sherlocke uses for their backwards compatibility menus)

    Here is a code snippet of what I’m describing (this is written in C# using Mono for Android but it should be easy to translate to Java):

    Dialog dlgHome = new Dialog(this, Resource.Style.ActionBarMenu);
dlgHome.SetCanceledOnTouchOutside(true);
dlgHome.SetContentView(Resource.Layout.ActionBarMenu);
ListView lsvHome = (ListView)dlgHome.FindViewById(Resource.Id.lsvHome);
lsvHome.Adapter = new ArrayAdapter<string>(this, Resource.Layout.ActionBarMenuItem, new string[] { "Add Activity", "Edit Log", "Program Details" });

Rect r = new Rect();
btnHome.GetLocalVisibleRect(r);
int x = r.Left + (int)TypedValue.ApplyDimension(ComplexUnitType.Dip, 5, Resources.DisplayMetrics);
int y = r.Bottom;

WindowManagerLayoutParams param = dlgHome.Window.Attributes;
param.Gravity = (int)(GravityFlags.Top | GravityFlags.Left);
param.X = x;
param.Y = y;
dlgHome.Window.Attributes = param;

    Also, here is the style xml (goes in style.xml)

    <style name="ActionBarMenu" parent="android:Theme.Dialog">
<item name="android:windowBackground">@color/actionbar_menu_bg</item>
<item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
<item name="android:backgroundDimEnabled">false</item>
</style>
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