ActionBarSherlock 4.0 Beta Release Candidate

#	Date	SHA	Library	Plugin: Support Lib	Plugin: Maps	Demos
RC 1	2012-02-14 ♥	f5bc121c04	.zip	.jar	.jar	.apk
Beta 6	2012-02-08	db5fc56a9a	.zip	.jar	.jar	.apk
Beta 5	2012-01-12	55c3822704	.zip	.jar	.jar	.apk
Beta 4	2012-01-03	d817b843b4	.zip	.jar	.jar	.apk
Beta 3	2012-01-02	a8e771be60	.zip	.jar	.jar	.apk
Beta 2	2011-12-29	e6f622f54d	.zip	.jar	.jar	.apk
Beta 1	2011-12-27	0d309ceb9d	.zip	.jar	.jar	n/a

Change Log

Release Candidate #1

• Merged in changes from Android 4.0.3 to compatibility implementation.
• Sample demos now includes a theme switcher for easy demoing of all three themes.
• Widget.Sherlock.* styles now properly inherit from their Holo-counterpart on 4.0+
• Menu key now only opens overflow when action mode is not being displayed.
• Properly implement setHomeButtonEnabled, setStackedBackgroundDrawable, and setSplitBackgroundDrawable for the native proxy.
• Default home button enabled setting on the compatibility action bar now mimics the native platform (target 14+ = disabled by default).
• Properly hide views when animated offscreen so that touch evens are not processed when hidden.
• Fix dispatching of menu changed events to the action bar so invalidation now works correctly with the fragment lifecycle.
• Add sherlock_spinner_item view for use with list navigation adapters.
• Setting UI options programmatically is no longer overwritten by manifest value.
• Correct dual-action bar presence when run on Google TV (runing Honeycomb).
• Honor FEATURE_NO_TITLE when set programmatically.
• Add a bunch of samples and standardize all to have a text description.

Beta #6

• Use native action bar on Android 4.0 and newer. While this causes no code-facing changes this impacts theming massively. While options are being considered regarding this manner, you will need to supply both non-prefixed and `android`-prefixed attributes when supplying customizations to the theme. (See abs.io/i/225)
• Theme.Sherlock.Light and Theme.Sherlock.Light.DarkActionBar are now fully implemented.
• Support adding .NoActionBar and .ForceOverflow to each theme to perform the respective action.
• Compatibility plugin is now named support plugin to reflect the name change of the offical version.
• New samples: split action mode, static attachment, action provider, and collapsible action item.
• Automatically attach action bar if it has not already been done after onCreate finishes.
• Properly filter when to use split action bar and tabs below action bar as well as how many action items are displayed based on the rules used on Android 3.2+.
• Title dispatching and caching is now properly implemented.
• Back button will now cancel action modes and open collapsible action items.
• Submenu and overflow menu measurement will not longer grow to fill the screen.
• Properly disable action bar controls when an action mode is displayed.
• Use appropriate sizing on pre-Honeycomb "tablets" (e.g., Kindle Fire, original Galaxy Tab).
• Fail fast if an activity is not using an appropriate theme which would otherwise lead to an ambiguous resource exception.
• Rebuild FragmentActivity from scratch to fix problems with menu creation and callback dispatching.

Beta #5

• Tab below the action bar and the split action item bar are now properly disabled on w480p, normal-land, and large.
• Menu key now properly opens and closes the action item overflow if it is being used.
• Action modes are now handled by the action bar implementation rather than the system implementation.
• Action bar and action mode animation is now properly executed on all API levels using a new NineOldAndroids 2.0.0-SNAPSHOT technique.
• New action mode example in the demos sample.
• Overflow menu is now properly dismissed when leaving an activity (e.g., by pressing the home button, other app coming to front etc.).
• Native overflow menu binding on pre-3.0 devices is now fully implemented.

Beta #4

• Add dividers and Holo-style selection indication to sub-menu/overflow popup lists.
• Properly parse uiOptions and logo attributes from the <application> tag in addition to allowing overrides by the associated <activity> tag.
• Merge in the ICS MenuInflater class for better menu support.

Beta #3

• Add styles and APIs for determinate and indeterminate progress bars so that they now display properly.
• Add styles for titles and subtitles so they now match their ICS counterparts.
• Add styles for list navigation so that it now displays properly.
• Change ActionBarSherlock menu-related interfaces to be more like the panel variants and let the activity implementation handle calling the options-menu variants. This allows FragmentActivity to properly dispatch events to both the activities and contained fragments.
• Use Theme.Holo/Theme.Holo.Light on API 11-13 and Theme.DeviceDefault/Theme.DeviceDefault.Light on API 14+ as the base of our themes.
• Enable the display of action mode sub-menu/overflow popups.
• New sample: Split action bar.
• Properly dispatch onConfigurationChanged events to action modes when they are being displayed.

Beta #2

• New sample: Collapsed tab navigation.
• Add absForceOverflow boolean theme attribute which forces the overflow menu, when present, to be displayed as an action item.
• Parse uiOptions manifest attribute to enable split action bar.

Beta #1

• Here we go!