Android ActionBar compatibility: MenuItem.setActionView(View)

android, android-actionbar, android-menu, compatibility

Solution

Look at `MenuItemCompat`: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v4/view/MenuItemCompat.html

There is a static function `setActionView(MenuItem item, View view)`

So your code should look like:

MenuItem menuItemRefresh = menu.findItem(R.id.refresh);
menuItemRefresh = MenuItemCompat.setActionView(menuItemRefresh, myView);

Problem

I'm using the appcompat7 lib for ActionBar backwards compatibility. Now I have a `MenuItem` that I retrieve, and then want to set an `ImageView myView` as its icon. The way how to do it from API level 11 is: ``` MenuItem menuItemRefresh = menu.findItem(R.id.refresh); menuItemRefresh.setActionView(myView); ``` For API levels lower than 11 this doesn't work, the second line will show an error. Is there an option to do this in compatibility mode?

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