cannot find symbol method getSupportActionBar()

Question

I know this question has been posted plenty of times, but I still unable to solve even i have tried many solution from Stack Overflow.

import android.support.v4.app.FragmentActivity;
import android.support.v4.app.FragmentManager;
import android.support.v4.app.FragmentTransaction;
import android.support.v7.app.ActionBar;
import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity;
import com.example.project.myapplication.API.InfoAPI;
import com.example.project.myapplication.Adapter.TabsFragmentPagerAdapter;


public class Edit extends FragmentActivity implements ActionBar.TabListener {

    private ViewPager viewPager;
    private ActionBar actionBar;
    private TabsFragmentPagerAdapter tabsAdapter;
    private String[] activities = new String[]{"Information","Work Force","Work Details"};
    ListView listViewEdit;
    InfoAPI sqlcon;
    private MyDatabaseHelper dbHelper;
    private SQLiteDatabase database;
    private SimpleCursorAdapter dataAdapter;

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.edit);
        viewPager = (ViewPager) findViewById(R.id.viewPager);
        tabsAdapter = new TabsFragmentPagerAdapter(getSupportFragmentManager());
        viewPager.setAdapter(tabsAdapter);
        actionBar = (ActionBarActivity)getApplicationContext().getSupportActionBar();
        actionBar.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS);
        for(int i=0; i<3; i++){
            actionBar.addTab(actionBar.newTab().setText(activities[i]).setTabListener(this));
        }

Error is on this line actionBar = (ActionBarActivity)getApplicationContext().getSupportActionBar();

Error

Error:(48, 63) error: cannot find symbol method getSupportActionBar()
Error:(48, 21) error: incompatible types: ActionBarActivity cannot be converted to ActionBar

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 05 '15 at 08:29

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Let Edit extend AppCompatActivity instead FragmentActivity. AppCompatActivity extends FragmentActivity and adds support for the ActionBar. You can read more here

answered Dec 05 '15 at 08:29

Blackbelt

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score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:09

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you need to change FragmentActivity to ActionBarActivity because this method is not provide in FragmentActivity so change.

public class mainActivity extends ActionBarActivity

check this Link

edited May 23 '17 at 12:09

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answered Dec 05 '15 at 08:27

Abhinav singh

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 05 '15 at 08:31

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Replace

public class Edit extends FragmentActivity implements ActionBar.TabListener

with

public class Edit extends ActionBarActivity implements ActionBar.TabListener

and you line

actionBar = (ActionBar)getApplicationContext().getSupportActionBar();

answered Dec 05 '15 at 08:31

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cannot find symbol method getSupportActionBar()

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