how to create menu bar at bottom of the activity using 4.0.3 SDK

Question

I am creating a menu in 4.0.3, according to documentation it always shows menu bar at the top of my activity but i want to show it at the bottom of my activity like that.How can i achieve this?

Currently i am using the following code.

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

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

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
    return true;
}}

menue.xlm

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >


<item
    android:id="@+id/weather"
    android:showAsAction="always|withText"
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
    android:title="weather"/>
<item
    android:id="@+id/second"
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
    android:showAsAction="always|withText"
    android:title="Home"/>

<item
    android:id="@+id/java"
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
    android:showAsAction="always|withText"
    android:title="Java"/>

<item
    android:id="@+id/android"
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
    android:showAsAction="always|withText"
    android:title="Android"/>
</menu>

Mainfest

<application
    android:allowBackup="true"
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >
    <activity
        android:name="com.example.bottom.MainActivity"
        android:label="@string/app_name" >
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>
</application>

and it showing the following output.

Answer 1

As far as i know there is no option to move the ActionBar entirely to the bottom. But still it is possible to display few items at the bottom. for that you need to do this:

• Just add android:uiOptions="splitActionBarWhenNarrow" to your activity tag in theAndroidManifest.xml like this...
  

  <activity android:name=".MainActivity" android:uiOptions="splitActionBarWhenNarrow">
  

You can read more here and here

Hope it helps. :)