Created Saturday 31 August 2013

General Organization

• App icon (up button)
• View control
• Action buttons
• More button

Tips

• Use different layouts
• Consider splitting action bar for portrait
• Actions on the bottom in this case
• Use FIT scheme to decide what actions to add

• screen width in dp determines how many icons fit in action bar

smaller than 360 dp = 2 icons (including more button)
360-499 dp = 3 icons
500-599 dp = 4 icons
600 dp and larger = 5 icons

Gotchas

As per http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11480302/overflow-actions-on-actionbar-not-showing

• If you have a physical menu key, the overflow indicator does not show. That is a behaviour by design. See here for more details on another question asked.

Links

• http://developer.android.com/downloads/design/Android_Design_Icons_20120814.zip
• http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/04/customizing-action-bar.html
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17913084/actionbar-action-items-not-showing
• http://developer.android.com/training/implementing-navigation/ancestral.html - for properly implementing Up button