customize action bar in android

Question

I need to customize action bar to look like this photo

enter image description here when click on image of right it opens slide menu from right of screen , that works fine I tried that so far

getActionBar().setBackgroundDrawable(getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.action_bar));
    getActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
    getActionBar().setHomeButtonEnabled(true);

action_bar.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<item>
    <shape
        xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        android:id="@+id/fb"
        android:shape="rectangle" >
        <solid android:color="#00C78C" />
    </shape>
</item>
<item>
    <bitmap
        android:gravity="center"
        android:src="@drawable/aslogo" />
</item>

and for search and setting icons i used this in main.xml

<item
    android:id="@+id/action_settings"
    android:orderInCategory="100"
    android:showAsAction="never"

    android:title="@string/action_settings"/>

 <item
    android:id="@+id/action_help"
    android:icon="@drawable/assetting"
    android:showAsAction="always"/>

<item
    android:id="@+id/action_search"
    android:icon="@drawable/assearch"
    android:showAsAction="always"/>

here is what i have so far

enter image description here

any help please

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 29 '14 at 23:15

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ok first of all .. remove your title with

getActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);

then you should use orderInCategory in your xml file and it will order from less number to greater (from left side of your action bar) ...

answered Mar 29 '14 at 23:15

Matej Špilár

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but icon of logo which opens sliding window is not in menu.xml file how can i move it from left to right ? – Sarah Sami Mar 30 '14 at 07:32
have you tried to declare it as " android:showAsAction="always" ? – Matej Špilár Mar 30 '14 at 09:22
the same still on left of action bar – Sarah Sami Mar 30 '14 at 10:29

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:22

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If you are using Android's native Actionbar, proper RtL is only supported post Android 4.2: change action bar direction to right-to-left

If you want to support older Android versions, you probably have to customize one of the open source actionbar libraries, and use SlidingMenu for sliding from right action.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:22

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answered Mar 30 '14 at 01:17

Kai

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