ActionBar not showing title on Android 2.3.3

Question

I'm using Google support-v7 to get ActionBar support on Android 2.3+, here's my code

public abstract class NavUpActionBarActivity extends ActionBarActivity {
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        ActionBar actionBar = getSupportActionBar();
        actionBar.setHomeAsUpIndicator(R.drawable.title_back);
        actionBar.setDisplayOptions(
            ActionBar.DISPLAY_SHOW_TITLE | ActionBar.DISPLAY_HOME_AS_UP);
        actionBar.setTitle(getCustomTitleResId());
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onSupportNavigateUp () {
        this.finish();
        return true;
    }

    protected abstract int getCustomTitleResId();
}

All subclass of NavUpActionBarActivity never showed any title on 2.3.3, any idea?

UPDATED1

The above code works on every device 4.x

UPDATED2

this is a known issue for google

Answer 1

Instead of

actionBar.setTitle(getCustomTitleResId());

You should do something like this:

ActionBar ab = getSupportActionBar();
ab.setTitle("My Title");
ab.setSubtitle("sub-title");

If you want to get the String of the title from your resources, then you should have something like this

{
    /* ... */
    ActionBar ab = getSupportActionBar();
    ab.setTitle(getCustomTitleResId());
    ab.setSubtitle("sub-title");
    /* ... */
}

protected String getCustomTitleResId() {
    return getString(R.string.CustomTitle);
}

Remember that if you want this method to work, you should define it into your Activity, or pass to it the Activity Context:

 protected String getCustomTitleResId(Context c) {
    return c.getString(R.string.CustomTitle);
}

Answer 2

try this ..

actionBar.setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(true);

Also if you need to create customized Action Bar then follow my post over here .. Android Action Bar: Can I replace a custom Title in appcompat v7

Update

to set title try this ...

   actionBar.setTitle(Html.fromHtml("<font color='#013145'>Sign in or Create an account</font>"));

Hope it helps ..

UPDATE

I already faced this problem .. that's why I am suggesting you to create custom view for Action bar. There's no surety for UI look and feel as you are trying ..

For your concern if you still need to go this way: For now as you are trying .. you need to get ID of title bar for lower version and then you need to update that title .. For Ex: you firstly need to have check for lower and higher version .. In higher version you simply need to define as I have mentioned above .. and for lower version you need to get ID of title Texview and then you need to set Title over it.

You can get ID of title like this ..

Grab the ID for the action_bar_title

int titleId = getResources().getIdentifier("action_bar_title", "id", "android");

Now you can use the ID with a TextView

TextView abTitle = (TextView) findViewById(titleId);
abTitle.setText("You title text");

But over all what I found that using Custom view is much more better way of accomplishing this task .. as this will allow you to make much more complex UI in very easy and handy way.

Hope you will go for this option.

For Lower and higher version check .. you may try like this ..

if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB) {

                    // Higher version

                } else {

                    // Lower version 

                }

Hope it sounds great .. Cheers!