How to Add a Custom View to the ActionBar in Android?

Here is source code of the Program to Add a Custom View to the ActionBar in Android. The program is successfully compiled and run on a Windows system using Eclipse Ide. The program output is also shown below.

Main Activity

package com.example.add_custom_view_action_bar;
 
import android.annotation.SuppressLint;
import android.app.ActionBar;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.KeyEvent;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.TextView.OnEditorActionListener;
import android.widget.Toast;
 
@SuppressLint("NewApi")
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
 
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
 
        ActionBar actionBar = getActionBar();
        // add the custom view to the action bar
        actionBar.setCustomView(R.layout.actionbar_view);
        EditText search = (EditText) actionBar.getCustomView().findViewById(
                R.id.searchfield);
        search.setOnEditorActionListener(new OnEditorActionListener() {
 
            @Override
            public boolean onEditorAction(TextView v, int actionId,
                    KeyEvent event) {
                Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, "Search triggered",
                        Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                return false;
            }
        });
        actionBar.setDisplayOptions(ActionBar.DISPLAY_SHOW_CUSTOM
                | ActionBar.DISPLAY_SHOW_HOME);
    }
 
}

Activity_Main

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    tools:context=".MainActivity" >
 
    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textView1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:layout_marginTop="193dp"
        android:text="Demonstrate Adding Custom View to Action Bar"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" />
 
</RelativeLayout>

actionbar_view

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<EditText xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/searchfield"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:inputType="textFilter" 
    android:text="Text">
 
</EditText>

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