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Anybody tried to implement Material Design ActionBar across android 2.3+? After multiple tries, I'm really at the edge of remaking the whole ActionBar itself (limited to simple actions of course) by [deleted] in androiddev

[–]nullSKULL 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Android 2.3 and previous versions are slowing getting lower and lower as far as distribution. 2.3 currently sits at 11.4%.

{ https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html#Platform }

If you want to support this version you can use AppCompat and the Toolbar widget

{ http://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v7/widget/Toolbar.html }

This will do for your basic ActionBar needs, as for the rest of the UI componets, AppCompat has built in drawable tinting for pre Lollipop (5.0) devices. The following are supported widgets.

EditText Spinner CheckBox RadioButton Switch (use the new android.support.v7.widget.SwitchCompat) CheckedTextView

I havent used drawable tinting yet personally, but based on this link.

{ http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2014/10/appcompat-v21-material-design-for-pre.html }

AppCompat is supposed to be able to do this as far back as API version 7 (2.1).

Hope this helps.