Is it possible to have multiple ActionBar CustomViews?

Question

I have a simple question.

Is the following scenario possible with the Android Actionbar:

• Actiobar Title
• CustomView1
• CustomView2
• Normal MenuItem

Graphical representation:

What I know is that it's possible to have a custom Actionbar View by using this method:

ActionBar.setCustomView(View v);

in addition to that, I know having a title and normal MenuItems in combination with a CustomView is supported as well.

But is it possible to have multiple custom Views (like in the picture above) in the ActionBar, and if yes, how?

Answer 1

Just create custom layout for your ActionBar menu items and find the menu items to which you want to provide custom layout in onCreateOptionsMenu and call setActionView(View view) on them.

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    ...
    MenuItem item = menu.findItem(R.id.YOUR_MENU_ITEM_ID);
    item.setActionView(R.layout.YOUR_CUSTOM_LAYOUT);     
    ...
}