title: Android compatibility contextual action bar
body: <p>In trying to follow the Android Design Guidelines, I'm running into a small quandary.</p>
  
  <p>I want to have a list of items that I can long-press several of (multi-select), and then perform bulk actions on them.</p>
  
  <p>The Design Guidelines suggest using the Contextual Action Bar for this, and it sounds perfectly like what I had in mind.  Problem is, I'm trying to maintain compatibility backwards to API 7 (due to my phone being 2.3.3 currently). </p>
  
  <p>I'm using <strong>ActionBarSherlock</strong> to get other actionbar stuff, but I can't seem to figure out how to get it to either fire up a contextual action bar, nor have I figured out how to add buttons  arbitrarily to the ActionBar in ABS.  I see you can do tabs, so maybe that's the answer, but since I'm trying to allow multi-select, I don't want to have the normal modal context menu.</p>