actionbar sherlock replace home icon with dropdown icon or remove it completely

Question

I have tried to replace the home icon with a dropdown icon,I have also tried removing it completely but I am unable to achieve it.

the home icon in the above fig ie:

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needs to be replaced with drop down or completely removed.How do I do it? Thanks in Advance.

Answer 1

You can remove the home action item by calling

getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(false);

If you want to replace it with a drop-down menu your best bet would be constructing a Spinner and using the action bar's custom view.

Spinner dropdown = new Spinner(this);
//TODO attach to an adapter of some sort
getSupportActionBar().setCustomView(dropdown);
getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowCustomEnabled(true);