How do I get ActionBarCompat to show the normal default icon (set in the application/intent-filter android:icon attribute in the manifest)?

Question

Any clues on how to get ActionBarCompat to show the default icon in pre-honeycomb devices the normal honeycomb/ics action bar would show? ie the icon set in the <application> / <intent-filter> android:icon attribute in the manifest.

Also information on how to get the resource ID for the android:icon would be helpful.

Thanks

Answer 1

Well, for pre-Honeycomb, you'll have to change the icon referenced by the 'HOME' ActionBar element in ActionBarHelperBase.java class. This should be somewhere in the setupActionBar() method, like so:

homeItem.setIcon(R.drawable.ic_home);

Just change this to

homeItem.setIcon(R.drawable.launcher);

and you should be good to go. For changing in Honeycomb, you'll need to change the android:icon attributes in values-v11\\styles.xml in the style for ActionBar .

Hope that helps.

Answer 2

Also information on how to get the resource ID for the android:icon would be helpful.

What? If you use: android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher" then the resource id is R.drawable.ic_launcher .

Also, you mention ActionBarCompat ... are you using ActionBarSherlock? if so it should show that icon by default. What are you seeing instead?