Why action bar in titanium crash my application?

Question

am developing android app in titanium appcelerator. Now my problem is that i have to add action bar in my app and put two buttons in left and right side of it

but i cant successfully implement the action bar

i have done following to make show action bar but its just crashes ma application,

    var win = Ti.UI.createWindow({
        title: _args.title,
        backgroundColor:'black',
        navBarHidden: false,
        containingTab: _args.containingTab,
        //tabGroup: _args.tabGroup,
        barImage:rootPath+'/Components/top_bg.jpg'
    });


var actionBar;
win.addEventListener("open", function() {
    if (Ti.Platform.osname === "android") {
        if (! win.activity) {
            Ti.API.error("Can't access action bar on a lightweight window.");
            alert("NOT ACTIVITY");
        } else {
            actionBar = win.activity.actionBar;
            if (actionBar) {
                alert("ACTIVITY");
                actionBar.backgroundImage = "/images/bg_top.png";
                actionBar.title = "New Title";
                actionBar.onHomeIconItemSelected = function() {
                    Ti.API.info("Home icon clicked!");
                };
            }
        }
    }
});

can anyone please guide me where am doing mistake? or is there anything else that i have to follow.

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 04 '13 at 01:42

4

try wrapping it in onCreateOptionsMenu

   win.activity.onCreateOptionsMenu = function(e) {
        actionBar = win.activity.actionBar;
        if (actionBar) {
            alert("ACTIVITY");
            actionBar.backgroundImage = "/images/bg_top.png";
            actionBar.title = "New Title";
            actionBar.onHomeIconItemSelected = function() {
                Ti.API.info("Home icon clicked!");
            };
        } else {
            alert('missing action bar');
        }
     });

answered Jul 04 '13 at 01:42

Aaron Saunders

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nope...its not working...app is not crashing but cant find action bar in my app – BhavikKama Jul 04 '13 at 07:15
ok i got this in work...i just put some code in tiapp.xml..thanx for helping me – BhavikKama Jul 04 '13 at 07:31
@BhavikKama can you share please what code did you use in tiapp.xml for this to work? thanks – itsjavi Dec 20 '13 at 14:24
sorry for not providing the tiapp.xml. here is a complete sample https://github.com/adampax/AlloyActionJackson – Aaron Saunders May 06 '14 at 14:21
@bharal i had used this and it worked for me – BhavikKama May 07 '14 at 03:57

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 29 '13 at 12:08

I had the same problem and it took some time to find out which code I have to put in the tiapp.xml

<uses-sdk android:maxSdkVersion="18" 
            android:minSdkVersion="11" android:targetSdkVersion="18"/>

Put this in the manifest element and it should work. Notice that the actionbar only works in android api 11 and higher.

Why action bar in titanium crash my application?

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