Make Actionbar Overlay Using Actionbarsherlock

The last few days I've been doing great stuff in development, but I've seem to have hit a wall on something probably stupid simple. It's annoying. I was hoping I could get some hel

Solution 1:

OK, so apparently, with my set-up, you can't do it using themes.

I ended it up doing it, globally like this.

setTheme(theme.whatever);
requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_ACTION_BAR_OVERLAY);
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.content);
getSupportActionBar().setBackgroundDrawable(getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.color)); // This is #212121 solid color for the dark action bar.

The lines are spread out over my code, but this is the gist of it. The order is important.

I also found out that sliding menu seemed to be blocking the overlay mode. I had to remove the instance for it to work. I'm still looking for a way to enable both overlay mode and the sliding menu.