Question

Is there a guide for migrative Native ActionBar (API 11) to ActionBarSherlock?
My app already has actionbar implemented but now I wish to migrate to ActionBAr Sherlock

Answer 1

Step #1: Add the ActionBarSherlock JAR to the libs/ directory of your project.

Step #2: Have your activities (or the whole application) use a Sherlock-flavored theme (e.g., Theme.Sherlock, Theme.Sherlock.Light)

Step #3: Change all your activities to inherit from their Sherlock-flavored equivalents (e.g., Activity -> SherlockActivity, ListActivity -> SherlockListActivity)

Step #4: Change all your fragments to inherit from their Sherlock-flavored equivalents (e.g., Fragment -> SherlockFragment, ListFragment -> SherlockListFragment)

Step #5: Change all calls to getActionBar() to getSupportActionBar()

Step #6: Fix up any other imports as needed (e.g., onCreateOptionsMenu() will now need the Sherlock’s implementation of Menu instead of Android’s)

And that should just about do it. You will already have android:targetSdkVersion set to 11 or higher, courtesy of your existing native action bar implementation, so that step is taken care of for you.