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Using the Action Bar

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One of the easiest ways to make your application blend in better with the latest and greatest Android UI is to enable the action bar, introduced in Chapter 26. What makes it “easy” is that most of the basic functionality of the action bar is backward compatible—the Android 4.0 settings will not cause the application to crash on earlier versions of Android.

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Allen, G. (2012). Using the Action Bar. In: Beginning Android 4. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-3985-7_27

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