Issue when using with Support Library v7

[mradzinski]

Calling MessageBar messageBar = new MessageBar(this); from an activity extending ActionBarActivity (Support Library v7) gives an XML Inflating error:

Binary XML file line #25: Error inflating class android.support.v7.internal.widget.ActionBarView

It seems that by "injecting" the message layout into the activity layout breaks the ActionBarView layout, thus causing the error.

I've tried the same with a regular activity and it works.
Can you give it a try and see if it works on your side?

[SimonVT]

Don't attach MessageBar until the content view has been set, otherwise it would be behind your content.

[laaptu]

For MessageBar to work with Them.AppCompat,following must be included in

    <item name="messageBarContainerStyle">@style/MessageBar.Container</item>
    <item name="messageBarTextStyle">@style/MessageBar.Message</item>
    <item name="messageBarButtonStyle">@style/MessageBar.Button</item>

in themes.xml of

• values
• values-v11
• values-v14,

otherwise ,there will be force close stating to supply layout_width attribute.