Navigation Drawer is not working in android 2.3

Question

I tried navigation drawer it worked fine in android 4.1 Then I tried in gingerbread,I added supported library appcompat still also I am getting error please help me

01-02 16:48:04.765: E/AndroidRuntime(4688): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
01-02 16:48:04.765: E/AndroidRuntime(4688): java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: com.javatechig.drawer.MainActivity.getActionBar
01-02 16:48:04.765: E/AndroidRuntime(4688):     at com.javatechig.drawer.MainActivity.onCreate(MainActivity.java:40)
01-02 16:48:04.765: E/AndroidRuntime(4688):     at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1047)
01-02 16:48:04.765: E/AndroidRuntime(4688):     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1615)
01-02 16:48:04.765: E/AndroidRuntime(4688):     at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1667)
01-02 16:48:04.765: E/AndroidRuntime(4688):     at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1500(ActivityThread.java:117)
01-02 16:48:04.765: E/AndroidRuntime(4688):     at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:935)
01-02 16:48:04.765: E/AndroidRuntime(4688):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
01-02 16:48:04.765: E/AndroidRuntime(4688):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:130)
01-02 16:48:04.765: E/AndroidRuntime(4688):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3687)
01-02 16:48:04.765: E/AndroidRuntime(4688):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
01-02 16:48:04.765: E/AndroidRuntime(4688):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
01-02 16:48:04.765: E/AndroidRuntime(4688):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:867)
01-02 16:48:04.765: E/AndroidRuntime(4688):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:625)
01-02 16:48:04.765: E/AndroidRuntime(4688):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

Answer 1

Use getSupportActionBar(), which is a support library version of getActionBar().

To use all the support methods, you need to extend ActionBarActivity class instead of Activity class.