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Actionbar convert tabs to list navigation if there is no room

I have an actionbar with a logo, a title, 2 tabs and a search function. On a phone (3.5") everything works fine. The actionbar has 2 lines. The logo title and the search function appear on the first line and the tabs apear on the second line. enter image description here

On my tablet (7") everyting is shown on a single line. But the tabs will be convert to a list when i click the search icon. tabs as list navigation

How can i split the (sherlock)actionbar in 2 lines on my 7" tabblet? Or is there an other way to solve this problem?

Solution

  • I found a solution to separate the tabs in code.

    private void embeddedTabs(Object actionBar, Boolean embed_tabs) {


try {

        if (actionBar instanceof ActionBarWrapper) {
            //ICS and forward
            try {
                Field actionBarField = actionBar.getClass().getDeclaredField("mActionBar");
                actionBarField.setAccessible(true);
                actionBar = actionBarField.get(actionBar);
            } catch (Exception e) {
                Log.e("", "Error enabling embedded tabs", e);
        }
    }
    Method setHasEmbeddedTabsMethod = actionBar.getClass().getDeclaredMethod("setHasEmbeddedTabs", boolean.class);
    setHasEmbeddedTabsMethod.setAccessible(true);
    setHasEmbeddedTabsMethod.invoke(actionBar, embed_tabs);
} catch (Exception e) {
    Log.e("", "Error marking actionbar embedded", e);
}

    }

    But now I have a new problem. The tabs don't fill the tabbar completely. Actionbar tabs don't fill the tabbar