title: NoSuchMethodError error for getActionBar() (API-8)
body: <p>when i run the app it installs but then crashes, ecplise isnt telling there is anything wrong with my code.
  i think its a problem with my manifest...</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      package="com.example.secondapp"
      android:versionCode="1"
      android:versionName="1.0" &gt;
  
      &lt;uses-sdk
          android:minSdkVersion="8"
          android:targetSdkVersion="15" /&gt;
  
      &lt;application
          android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
          android:label="@string/app_name"
          android:theme="@style/AppTheme" &gt;
          &lt;activity
              android:name=".MainActivity"
              android:label="@string/title_activity_main" &gt;
              &lt;intent-filter&gt;
                  &lt;action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" /&gt;
  
                  &lt;category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" /&gt;
              &lt;/intent-filter&gt;                
                  &lt;meta-data
                      android:name="android.support.PARENT_ACTIVITY"
                      android:value="com.example.secondapp" /&gt;
          &lt;/activity&gt;
      &lt;/application&gt;
  
  &lt;/manifest&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>do u guys see any problems?</p>
  
  <pre><code>10-19 10:41:25.589: E/AndroidRuntime(10147): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
  10-19 10:41:25.589: E/AndroidRuntime(10147): java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: com.example.secondapp.MainActivity.getActionBar
  10-19 10:41:25.589: E/AndroidRuntime(10147):    at com.example.secondapp.MainActivity.onCreate(MainActivity.java:15)
  10-19 10:41:25.589: E/AndroidRuntime(10147):    at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1047)
  10-19 10:41:25.589: E/AndroidRuntime(10147):    at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1722)
  10-19 10:41:25.589: E/AndroidRuntime(10147):    at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1784)
  10-19 10:41:25.589: E/AndroidRuntime(10147):    at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1500(ActivityThread.java:123)
  10-19 10:41:25.589: E/AndroidRuntime(10147):    at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:939)
  10-19 10:41:25.589: E/AndroidRuntime(10147):    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
  10-19 10:41:25.589: E/AndroidRuntime(10147):    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:130)
  10-19 10:41:25.589: E/AndroidRuntime(10147):    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3835)
  10-19 10:41:25.589: E/AndroidRuntime(10147):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
  10-19 10:41:25.589: E/AndroidRuntime(10147):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
  10-19 10:41:25.589: E/AndroidRuntime(10147):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:864)
  10-19 10:41:25.589: E/AndroidRuntime(10147):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:622)
  10-19 10:41:25.589: E/AndroidRuntime(10147):    at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>this is the logcat, not sure if this will help</p>