Question

I’m building an Android app using PhoneGap, and would like to make the copy/share menu that shows up after a long click on text to overlay the app. To do so, I have to set android:windowActionBar to true. This is what docs say:

Beware that hiding and removing the action bar causes your activity to
re-layout in order to account for the space consumed by the action
bar. If your activity regularly hides and shows the action bar (such
as in the Android Gallery app), you might want to use overlay mode.
Overlay mode draws the action bar on top of your activity layout
rather than in its own area of the screen. This way, your layout
remains fixed when the action bar hides and re-appears. To enable
overlay mode, create a theme for your activity and set
android:windowActionBarOverlay to true.

So I tried to apply this theme:

<resources>
    <style name="AppTheme" parent="android:Theme.Holo.Light">
        <item name="android:windowActionBarOverlay">true</item>
    </style>
</resources>

to my application:

<application
        android:icon="@drawable/icono_p"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >

with no success.

Is there any way to set android:windowActionBar to true in a PhoneGap application?

EDIT:

The theme is actually being applied, but it just doesn’t work as expected, the bar keeps resizing the app

Answer 1

Solved it. The problem was that the copy/share menu is not an action bar, but a contextual action bar shown when the contextual action mode starts. So, instead of android:windowActionBar, the property to be set to true is android:windowActionModeOverlay