How to add action bar to a DialogFragment? - android-actionbar

Question

How to add action bar to a DialogFragment? I found a way to style an activity to the way we require and then display it as a dialog as in the following link ActionBar in a DialogFragment I need to set an action bar on a proper DialogFragment. Is it possible?

Answer 1

As Up ActionBar action on DialogFragment
indicates: There is no way to attach an ActionBar to the DialogFragment even though you can set the theme of the DialogFragment it will not register as a ActionBar to it, Dialog.getActionBar() will always return null.
But there's always the cases that I really want to use DialogFragment(which contain ActionBar like style) instead of Activity. Just add a Layout that will look like an ActionBar into the DialogFragment's Layout
the following is the steps:
1) DialogFragment layout: about_dialog.xml
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="#color/white" >
<include android:id="#+id/fake_action_bar"
layout="#layout/fake_action_bar_with_backbotton" />
2) Implement a ActionBar like layout: fake_action_bar_with_backbotton.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:id="#+id/fake_action_bar"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
app:navigationIcon="#drawable/ic_menu_back"
android:background="#color/background_material_dark"
app:theme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar"
app:popupTheme="#style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light" />
Note: the #drawable/ic_menu_back is copied from sdk\platforms\android-21\data\res\drawable-hdpi
3) Update the DialogFragment code
public class AboutDialogFragment extends DialogFragment {
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
// use Theme_Holo_Light for full screen
// use Theme_Holo_Dialog for not full screen
// first parameter: DialogFragment.STYLE_NO_TITLE no title
setStyle(DialogFragment.STYLE_NO_FRAME, android.R.style.Theme_Holo_Light_DarkActionBar);
}
#Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
View v = inflater.inflate(R.layout.about_dialog, container, false);
// set the listener for Navigation
Toolbar actionBar = (Toolbar) v.findViewById(R.id.fake_action_bar);
if (actionBar!=null) {
final AboutDialogFragment window = this;
actionBar.setTitle(R.string.about_title);
actionBar.setNavigationOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
public void onClick(View v) {
window.dismiss();
}
});
}
return v;
}
}
Wish it can help!