Adding actionbar to listactivity

Question

Hello so I created a list and I want to add action bar. I am quite new to android so I would like to know how to add action bar while using ListActivity. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks My code:

     public class MainActivity extends ListActivity {

     ArrayList<Item> items = new ArrayList<Item>();

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);


        items.add(new SectionItem("2x2 Matrices"));
        items.add(new EntryItem("Adding 2 Matrices"));
        items.add(new EntryItem("Subtracting 2 Matrices"));
        items.add(new EntryItem("Multiplying 2 Matrices"));
        items.add(new EntryItem("Multiplying by a constant"));
        items.add(new EntryItem("Dividing 2 Matrices"));
        items.add(new EntryItem("Negative of a Matrix"));
        items.add(new EntryItem("Inverse of a Matrix"));
        items.add(new EntryItem("Determinant of a Matrix"));

        /*Section2*/
        items.add(new SectionItem("3x3 Matrices"));
        items.add(new EntryItem("Item 4"));
        items.add(new EntryItem("Item 5"));
        items.add(new EntryItem("Item 6"));
        items.add(new EntryItem("Item 7"));
        /*Section3*/
        items.add(new SectionItem("Category 3"));
        items.add(new EntryItem("Item 8"));
        items.add(new EntryItem("Item 9"));
        items.add(new EntryItem("Item 10"));
        items.add(new EntryItem("Item 11"));
        items.add(new EntryItem("Item 12"));

        EntryAdapter adapter = new EntryAdapter(this, items);

        setListAdapter(adapter);
    }

}

Answer 1

Then in your activity's onCreateOptionsMenu() method, inflate the menu resource into the given Menu to add each item to the action bar:

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    // Inflate the menu items for use in the action bar
    MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
    inflater.inflate(R.menu.main_activity_actions, menu);
    return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
}

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