Question

I’ve seen a few posts about getting the title to show in actionbarsherlock along with the icon. The icon is displaying fine, but the title does not show beside it.

Currently it shows the home icon with all the tabs beside it. What I am looking for is the home icon, then title, and below all this have the tabs show. Here is my code.

ACTIVITY

public class MainActivity extends SherlockFragmentActivity {

@Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        mJsonHandler = JsonHandler.getInstance(this);
    }

 @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu)
    {
        com.actionbarsherlock.view.MenuInflater inflater = getSupportMenuInflater();

        ActionBar ab = getSupportActionBar();

        ab.setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
        ab.setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(true);
        ab.setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(true);
        ab.setDisplayUseLogoEnabled(true);

        ab.setTitle("TITLE TO SHOW");

        inflater.inflate(R.menu.activity_main, menu);

        return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);     
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item)
    {
        switch(item.getItemId()) {
        case R.id.menu_item0:

            break;
        case R.id.menu_item1:

            break;
        case R.id.menu_item2:

            break;
        case R.id.menu_item3:

            break;
        case R.id.menu_item4:

            break;
        case R.id.menu_item5:

            break;
        default:
            this.onBackPressed();
            break;
        }
        return false;
    }
}

activity_main.xml (for menu)

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

<item
    android:id="@+id/menu_item0"
    android:orderInCategory="1"
    android:showAsAction="always"
    android:title="@string/menu_item0"/>

<item
    android:id="@+id/menu_item1"
    android:orderInCategory="2"
    android:showAsAction="always"
    android:title="@string/menu_item1"/>

<item
    android:id="@+id/menu_item2"
    android:orderInCategory="3"
    android:showAsAction="always"
    android:title="@string/menu_item2"/>

<item
    android:id="@+id/menu_item3"
    android:orderInCategory="4"
    android:showAsAction="always"
    android:title="@string/menu_item3"/>

<item
    android:id="@+id/menu_item4"
    android:orderInCategory="5"
    android:showAsAction="always"
    android:title="@string/menu_item4"/>

 <item
    android:id="@+id/menu_item5"
    android:orderInCategory="6"
    android:showAsAction="always"
    android:title="@string/menu_item5"/>

Manifest

<uses-sdk
    android:minSdkVersion="8"
    android:targetSdkVersion="15" />

<application
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:theme="@style/Sherlock.Theme" >
    <activity
        android:name=".activities.MainActivity"
        android:label="@string/title_activity_main" >
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>
  </application>

</manifest>

Sherlock Theme

<style name="Sherlock.Theme" parent="Theme.Sherlock.Light.DarkActionBar"> 
</style>

Answer 1

You’re setting too many menu items to always show in the ActionBar. You should only set the most important ones to do so. You should read through the Android Design Guidelines on the appropriate way to set up the ActionBar

Android Design Guidelines – Action Bar organization

Also, you should set up the ActionBar in onCreate and leave onCreateOptionsMenu for only inflating your menu(s). This is just a general tip and goes towards better, more professional code formatting.