I'm attempting to recreate the following Android example using Xamarin: http://www.androidhive.info/2013/10/android-tab-layout-with-swipeable-views-1/
The error that I'm getting is when I try and get the instance of the action bar. The code for my initial Activity is below. The error is on line 27: actionBar = this.ActionBar; The error is: Error CS0030: Cannot convert type 'Android.App.ActionBar' to 'Android.Support.V7.App.ActionBar'
using Android.OS;
using Android.Views;
using System;
using Android.Support.V4.App;
using Android.Support.V4.View;
using Android.Support.V7.App;
namespace MyApplication
{
public class MainActivity : FragmentActivity
{
private ViewPager viewPager;
private TabsPagerAdapter mAdapter;
private ActionBar actionBar;
// Tab titles
private String[] tabs = { "Top Rated", "Games", "Movies" };
protected override void OnCreate (Bundle bundle)
{
base.OnCreate (bundle);
// Set our view from the "main" layout resource
SetContentView (Resource.Layout.Main);
// Initilization
viewPager = FindViewById<ViewPager>(Resource.Id.pager);
actionBar = this.ActionBar;
mAdapter = new TabsPagerAdapter(this.SupportFragmentManager);
viewPager.Adapter = mAdapter;
actionBar.SetHomeButtonEnabled(false);
actionBar.NavigationMode = Convert.ToInt32(Android.App.ActionBarNavigationMode.Tabs);
// Adding Tabs
foreach (String tab_name in tabs) {
ActionBar.Tab tab = actionBar.NewTab ();
tab.SetText (tab_name);
tab.SetTabListener (new TabListener<ParentFragment> (this, tab_name));
actionBar.AddTab (tab);
}
}
public override bool OnCreateOptionsMenu (Android.Views.IMenu menu)
{
// Menu items default to never show in the action bar. On most devices this means
// they will show in the standard options menu panel when the menu button is pressed.
// On xlarge-screen devices a "More" button will appear in the far right of the
// Action Bar that will display remaining items in a cascading menu.
menu.Add (new Java.Lang.String ("Normal item"));
var actionItem = menu.Add (new Java.Lang.String ("Action Button"));
// Items that show as actions should favor the "if room" setting, which will
// prevent too many buttons from crowding the bar. Extra items will show in the
// overflow area.
MenuItemCompat.SetShowAsAction (actionItem, MenuItemCompat.ShowAsActionIfRoom);
// Items that show as actions are strongly encouraged to use an icon.
// These icons are shown without a text description, and therefore should
// be sufficiently descriptive on their own.
actionItem.SetIcon (Android.Resource.Drawable.IcMenuShare);
return true;
}
public override bool OnOptionsItemSelected (Android.Views.IMenuItem item)
{
Android.Widget.Toast.MakeText (this,
"Selected Item: " +
item.TitleFormatted,
Android.Widget.ToastLength.Short).Show();
return true;
}
}
}
Any help you can give would be really helpful. Thanks!