I need to implement the actionbar in Android 2.x I've tried with this post and setup the support library as mentioned in thisofficial article.
Here are the steps that I've followed for implement the ActionBar using the appcompat support library:
First, I create the project with the following configuration (I don't create an icon and a default activity):
Minimum Required SDK: API 10: Android 2.3.3 (Gingerbread)
Target SDK: API 19: Android 4.4
Compile with: API 10: Android 2.3.3 (Gingerbread)
Theme: None
After, in the Project properties => Android => Library I add the android-support-v7-appcompat library project.
After this, I get 128 errors like this in the project where I use the appcompat library. All of them are related with the Holo theme:
[2013-12-06 13:24:24 - UsingSupportActionBar] C:\dev\Java\android\adt-bundle-windows-x86_64\sdk\extras\android\support\v7\appcompat\res\values-v14\styles_base.xml:24: error: Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'android:Widget.Holo.ActionBar'.
Please, note that the error only occurs with the values-v14 and values-v11 folders in the appcompat library project. Here are 2 examples of the errors I get:
[2013-12-06 13:24:24 - UsingSupportActionBar] C:\dev\Java\android\adt-bundle-windows-x86_64\sdk\extras\android\support\v7\appcompat\res\values-v14\styles_base.xml:100: error: Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'android:TextAppearance.Holo.Widget.ActionBar.Subtitle.Inverse'.
[2013-12-06 13:24:24 - UsingSupportActionBar] C:\dev\Java\android\adt-bundle-windows-x86_64\sdk\extras\android\support\v7\appcompat\res\values-v11\styles_base.xml:26: error: Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name 'android:Widget.Holo.ProgressBar.Horizontal'.
Also, there are few error not related with the Holo theme:
[2013-12-06 13:24:38 - UsingSupportActionBar] C:\dev\Java\android\adt-bundle-windows-x86_64\sdk\extras\android\support\v7\appcompat\res\values-v14\styles_base.xml:225: error: Error: No resource found that matches the given name: attr 'android:dividerPadding'.
[2013-12-06 13:24:38 - UsingSupportActionBar] C:\dev\Java\android\adt-bundle-windows-x86_64\sdk\extras\android\support\v7\appcompat\res\values-v14\styles_base.xml:224: error: Error: No resource found that matches the given name: attr 'android:showDividers'.
[2013-12-06 13:24:38 - UsingSupportActionBar] C:\dev\Java\android\adt-bundle-windows-x86_64\sdk\extras\android\support\v7\appcompat\res\values-v11\themes_base.xml:33: error: Error: No resource found that matches the given name: attr 'android:windowActionBar'.
[2013-12-06 13:24:38 - UsingSupportActionBar] C:\dev\Java\android\adt-bundle-windows-x86_64\sdk\extras\android\support\v7\appcompat\res\values-v11\themes_base.xml:44: error: Error: No resource found that matches the given name: attr 'android:windowActionBar'.
[2013-12-06 13:24:38 - UsingSupportActionBar] C:\dev\Java\android\adt-bundle-windows-x86_64\sdk\extras\android\support\v7\appcompat\res\values-v14\themes_base.xml:41: error: Error: No resource found that matches the given name: attr 'android:actionBarWidgetTheme'.
[2013-12-06 13:24:38 - UsingSupportActionBar] C:\dev\Java\android\adt-bundle-windows-x86_64\sdk\extras\android\support\v7\appcompat\res\values-v14\themes_base.xml:67: error: Error: No resource found that matches the given name: attr 'android:actionBarWidgetTheme'.
[2013-12-06 13:24:38 - UsingSupportActionBar] C:\dev\Java\android\adt-bundle-windows-x86_64\sdk\extras\android\support\v7\appcompat\res\values-v14\themes_base.xml:94: error: Error: No resource found that matches the given name: attr 'android:actionBarWidgetTheme'.
Has anyone had the same problem?
Set "Compile with" to API Level 19 as well - when you compile your app with SDK level 10, the compiler doesn't know the elements shown in the error log.