Ok so in prior posts I talked about adding drawer layout to my android project.  Today, I am going to add an actionbar to the project.  Starting with the end result of my first attempt see below.  I have an activity with tabs on each view.

This is how that was accomplished.  Within the OnCreate(Bundle bundle) method of the Activity

this.ActionBar.NavigationMode = ActionBarNavigationMode.Tabs;              
AddTab("Tab 1", Resource.Drawable.ic_tab_white, new SampleTabFragment());  
AddTab("Tab 2", Resource.Drawable.ic_tab_white, new SampleTabFragment2());  
  
if (bundle != null)     this.ActionBar.SelectTab(this.ActionBar.GetTabAt(bundle.GetInt("tab")));

Adding method AddTab

        void AddTab(string tabText, int iconResourceId, Fragment view)  
        {  
            var tab = this.ActionBar.NewTab();  
            tab.SetText(tabText);  
            tab.SetIcon(Resource.Drawable.ic_tab_white);  
  
            // must set event handler before adding tab  
  
            tab.TabSelected += delegate (object sender, Android.App.ActionBar.TabEventArgs e)  
            {  
                var fragment = this.FragmentManager.FindFragmentById(Resource.Id.frameLayout);  
                if (fragment != null)  
                    e.FragmentTransaction.Remove(fragment);  
                e.FragmentTransaction.Add(Resource.Id.frameLayout, view);  
            };  
            tab.TabUnselected += delegate (object sender, Android.App.ActionBar.TabEventArgs e) {  
                e.FragmentTransaction.Remove(view);  
            };  
  
            this.ActionBar.AddTab(tab);  
        }

Adding fragment classes for the end target for selecting a tab

    public class SampleTabFragment : Fragment  
    {  
        public override View OnCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState)  
        {  
            base.OnCreateView(inflater, container, savedInstanceState);  
  
            var view = inflater.Inflate(Resource.Layout.Tab, container, false);  
            var sampleTextView = view.FindViewById<TextView>(Resource.Id.sampleTextView);  
            sampleTextView.Text = "sample fragment text";  
  
            return view;  
        }  
    }  
  
    public class SampleTabFragment2 : Fragment  
    {  
        public override View OnCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState)  
        {  
            base.OnCreateView(inflater, container, savedInstanceState);  
  
            var view = inflater.Inflate(Resource.Layout.Tab, container, false);  
            var sampleTextView = view.FindViewById<TextView>(Resource.Id.sampleTextView);  
            sampleTextView.Text = "sample fragment text 2";  
  
            return view;  
        }  
    }

When a user selects a tab, we have them hooked up to show the respective fragment.  I also noticed that the code within the TabSelected event could be replaced by the following FragmentManager code
tab.TabSelected += delegate (object sender, Android.App.ActionBar.TabEventArgs e) { //var fragment = this.FragmentManager.FindFragmentById(Resource.Id.frameLayout); //if (fragment != null) //e.FragmentTransaction.Remove(fragment); //e.FragmentTransaction.Add(Resource.Id.frameLayout, view);    base.FragmentManager.BeginTransaction().Replace(Resource.Id.frameLayout, view).Commit(
};
While the above works to show tabs in my sample application this is not really what I am looking for. The following guide shows the different aspects of the ActionBar.  In our above example we were working with Tab Navigation.  Ideally, what I am looking for is how to get my tabs where the action buttons are shown.