title: Android: ActionBar with fixed bottom layout
body: <p>I am trying to make an app which the main screen is an tabbed interface, and bellow the tab control there is a fixed strip of controls.</p>
  
  <p>My first try, was adding into my XML another linear layout bellow the android.support.v4.view.ViewPager and setting <code>actionBar.setNavigationMode(ActionBar.NAVIGATION_MODE_TABS);</code> . This hides the layout at the bottom. </p>
  
  <p>When I try <code>NAVIGATION_MODE_STANDARD</code> I see the layout at the bottom, but the app crashes when I switch tabs.</p>
  
  <p>I found something similar in Appolo Music, however I did not understand were the player strip is defined (full code is here: <a href="https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_packages_apps_Apollo" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_packages_apps_Apollo</a>)</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/jGQBI.jpg" alt="Appolo Music - usually found on Cyanogenmod"></p>
  
  <p>EDIT:
  I found using the Hierarchy viewer that the extra layout gets deleted on runtime. This is interesting.</p>