ActionBarCompat on Gingerbread fills whole screen

Question

So we've successfully stripped ActionBarSherlock from the Zappos app in favor of the new ActionBarCompat and it works great on Honeycomb+ but on Gingerbread the action bar expands to fill the whole screen and I cannot figure out why it's happening. We basically just changed all the themes/styles/references to ActionBarSherlock to be the equivalents in ActionBarCompat. Below is a screen shot of the issue. Anyone else run across this on GB and know of a fix? It's holding up a release for us :\

Icebreaker

It looks like you have custom views in the actionbar. What happens when you set their height to wrap_content? – Delanos

Answer 1

Alright so I figured it out finally... we had copied the appcompat source code as a library project rather than using the com.android.support:appcompat-v7:18.0.+ dependency in gradle. After switching to the dependency in gradle and removing the appcompat source from our project it works as intended now.

Icebreaker

Any idea on the root cause for this issue? Removing the library project and adding as a maven-style artifact fixed my issue as well, but just wondering why that's the case. – Card

Answer 2

Here's answer to the problem: http://gmariotti.blogspot.com.br/

It was just add this:

dependencies {
compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:18.0.+'
}

Sphagnum

Answer 3

I faced a similar problem where the actionbar filled the entire screen when I went from using ActionBar AppCombat to use ActionBarSherlock. In the value-v11 folder style.xml file. I had to remove the ActionBar Style there that inherit from the ActionBar appCombat.

Lippi

Answer 4

I also had this problem. The issue was that my themes definitions for Gingerbread were pointing to a style that didn't exist.

I had this in values/themes.xml:

<item name="actionBarStyle">@style/mytheme_solid_ActionBar</item>

But this mytheme_solid_ActionBar was only defined in values-v11/styles.xml and values-v14/styles.xml.

I just had to add it to values/styles.xml so that Gingerbread devices would have a proper style defined for the action bar (which inherits from Widget.AppCompat.Light.ActionBar.Solid.Inverse).

Wrier

Answer 5

My problem was the parent that my custom actionBarStyle was inheriting from.

<style name="AppTheme" parent="AppBaseTheme">
    <item name="actionBarStyle">@style/sfActionBar</item>
    <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/sfActionBar</item>
</style>

My custom style was originally:

<style name="sfActionBar" parent="Widget.Sherlock.ActionBar">...</style>

The change to get it to work on everything but Gingerbread was:

<style name="sfActionBar" parent="@android:style/Widget.ActionBar">...</style>

The correct modification:

<style name="sfActionBar" parent="@style/Widget.AppCompat.ActionBar">...</style>

Forepaw

Answer 6

Once I had similar issue (Toolbar's color filled the whole screen on Gingerbread) and the solution was to remove android:clipChildren="false" from the Toolbar's parent view.

Giuliana