Action bar Action Item location

Question

I'm currently creating an app where it would be useful for the user to have all the options in the actionbar.

This is the current situation:

As you can see, Item1 and Item2 are on the right but I'd like to have these on the left side. Is this possible?

If it is not possible, how would I simulate what I want? An ImageView with Buttons functioning as the ActionBar?

That would be horribly confusing for the user... Like a car maker that would like to change the position of the seats, mirrors and driving wheel.. Please reconsider your needs, but yes, that might be possible with a custom layout — Waza_Be, May 08 '13 at 17:29
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7454102/how-to-align-items-in-action-bar-to-the-left Google is your friend :) — Johannes, May 08 '13 at 17:30
@Waza_Be Hmm you are kind of right, though it is for a drawing app. So the user could choose between pencil/eraser/line-tool etc etc. Would be quite useful if all these tools were at the top. I could make my own custom action-bar and place it at the left side I guess. — James, May 13 '13 at 15:46

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 02 '13 at 16:14

I had a similar issue but I wanted something on the left, something in the middle, and overflow on the right. I created a custom layout with three ImageButtons for the three elements. Then used an <include> tag to include this layout in my Activities xml files.

I also created a BaseActivity for my other Activities to extend and put the menu functionality in there like OnMenuItemClickListener() then I could just override them in my Activities if I needed different functionality for a certain Activity aside from what it did in the BaseActivity. I also used PopupMenu here (requires API >= 11).

Action bar Action Item location

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