possibility of showing action bar in nested PreferenceScreen activity

[AT M]

I have a SherlockPreferenceActivity that uses addPreferencesFromResource to load data from preferences.xml file. Inside xml, I have a PreferenceScreen with another nested PreferenceScreen (which in turn has several sub-Preferences):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

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

   <PreferenceScreen

        android:summary="@string/part1_description"

        android:title="@string/part1_title" > 

        <Preference

            android:summary="@string/chapter1_description"

            android:title="@string/chapter1_title" >       

        </Preference>

        <Preference

            android:summary="@string/chapter2_description"

            android:title="@string/chapter2_title" >       

        </Preference>

   </PreferenceScreen>

   <PreferenceScreen

        android:summary="@string/part2_description"

        android:title="@string/part2_title" >

        <Preference

            android:summary="@string/chapter3_description"

            android:title="@string/chapter3_title" >       

        </Preference>

        <Preference

            android:summary="@string/chapter4_description"

            android:title="@string/chapter4_title" >       

        </Preference>

   </PreferenceScreen>

...

</PreferenceScreen>

Parent Activity with PreferenceScreen (listing Parts) is showing action bar perfectly, but when I go to any of the nested PreferenceScreen classes (which consequently open a new internal Activity with appropriate Chapters), action bar disappears. I guess that this problem can be solved by creating additional Activity for sub-PreferenceScreen class (using intents), but just wondering, is there any other better solution?

Thanks in advance.

[Jake Wharton]

This cannot be done unfortunately. See: https://github.com/JakeWharton/ActionBarSherlock/issues/447

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[AT M]

  It's a pity, thanks anyway. I will try to dig to other directions :-).

[Tom anMoney]

Yes, it can be done.  It's not easy, but possible.

See my app for an example:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zvasvari.anmoneyf

[Vladi]

Will you tell us how or we need to decompile that app to see? :)