android:actionBarStyle requires API level 11

actionbarsherlock, android, android-actionbar

Solution

You have to use only :

<item name="actionBarStyle">@style/Widget.Styled.ActionBar</item>

as you can get the error, you have `android:actionBarStyle` available at API level 11.

If you want to be able to style your `ActionBar` to look the same in all API levels, you need to create different folders for the selected API level and create new `style.xml`/`themes.xml` files in these folders.

For example:

- res
  -- values
     -- styles.xml
     -- themes.xml // API LEVEL 8+
 -- values-v11
     -- styles.xml
     -- themes.xml // API LEVEL 11+
 -- values-v14
     -- styles.xml
     -- themes.xml // API LEVEL 14+

The second thing which I can think of is be careful which themes are you including to your current one at different API Levels.

For example, for API level 8: you will use `@style/Theme.Sherlock.Light.DarkActionBar` and you will have to use only `actionBarStyle`. While styling the action bar for API level 14+, you won't need `actionBarStyle` , because you probably will set `Holo.Light` theme as parent for your current one, so in this situation you will have to use `android:actionBarStyle`.

Problem

While using the `ActionBarSherlock` in xml at: ``` <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/Widget.Styled.ActionBar</item> ``` I got this error: ``` android:actionBarStyle requires API level 11 (current min is 8) error ``` I'm using it for back porting my app with actionbar to 2.2 devices. How to use them both together: ``` <item name="actionBarStyle">@style/Widget.Styled.ActionBar</item> <item name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/Widget.Styled.ActionBar</item> ```

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