Add a view below actionbarsherlock

Question

I am using actionbarsherlock in my app. I want to add a view below the actionbar. See the following screenshot:

I want to add the 4-colored strip to the actionbar. How to do this?

Answer 1

You can do that by creating a CustomView for your ActionBar.

Then you just got to do this:

getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowCustomEnabled(true);
getSupportActionBar().setCustomView(R.layout.my_custom_view);

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Edit: Actually, you can do it using:

getSupportActionBar().setBackgroundDrawable(getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.background_action_bar));

Your drawable is something like this: