java - Combining ListActivity and ActionBarActivity

Question

I am currently building for a minimum SDK of 10, so I have to use the android-support-v7-appcompat library to implement ActionBar. I have setup the ActionBar, but I want to now add a ListActivity, however this requires extending my class and Java doesn't have multiple inheritance. What should I do?

public class MainActivity extends ActionBarActivity {

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
}

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    // Inflate the menu items for use in the action bar
    MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
    getSupportActionBar().setIcon(R.drawable.ic_action_search);
    getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(false);
    getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowTitleEnabled(false);
    inflater.inflate(R.menu.main_activity_actions, menu);
    return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
   }

 }

Answer 1

ListActivity hasn't been ported to AppCompat. Probably because you should consider it 'deprecated', and instead use a ListFragment.

Fragments will work with a ActionBarActivity, just make sure they are fragments from the support library.

Have a read through this link about fragments.

For your use case, I would just define the fragment in xml.