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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.",[199,248],{},[68,250,252],{"href":251},"\u002Farticles\u002Fimages\u002Fwindows-live-writer-xamarin_a3b5-image_4.png",[72,253],{"style":254,"src":255,"border":76,"alt":74,"title":74,"width":256,"height":257},"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;","\u002Farticles\u002Fimages\u002Fwindows-live-writer-xamarin_a3b5-image_thumb_1.png",290,279,{"title":21,"searchDepth":36,"depth":36,"links":259},[],"2016-02-06T08:02:02.1700000-05:00","More fun with actionbars with Xamarin",{},"\u002Farticles\u002Fxamarin-android-actionbar",{"title":192,"description":261},"articles\u002Fxamarin-android-actionbar",[111],"D9kSu3OBx2kAPQJfH-P1Y6pJDljKlYK_lEnLxL0fRJM",1781574771127]