Question

I use this in an app that I target Android 3.0+ only. I’d like to get more people but the ActionBar is not backwards compatible. I do not want to use a third party library like ActionBarSherlock. I went down that road and it was more of a pain then it was worth.

I have code like this:

final ActionBar actionBar = getActionBar();
actionBar.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS);
actionBar.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);

It is possible to wrap this with an if – else SDK check? Outside of the Action Bar, 99% other code is compatible pre-3.0 (well, I am using Fragments but using the Support Library.)

Answer 1

Yes, something like this:

      @TargetApi(Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB)
        private void setupActionBar() {
              if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB) {
                 actionBar = getActionBar();
                 actionBar.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS);
                 actionBar.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true); 
                }           
        }

Make sure to have your actionBar variable global