ActionbarCompat not showing Action-Icons

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When using ActionbarCompat as Actionbar BackPort I am having the problem that action-icons do not show up - same code/res works with actionbarsherlock.

Am I doing something wrong or is this not yet supported? I am also missing the whole Menu/MenuItem getSupportMenuInflater() part that ABS has in ActionBar compat - can anyone shed some light on this?

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:57

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This question was already answered in Actionbar not shown with AppCompat.

Add the following namespace to the "menu" item in your xml file

xmlns:compat="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"

Then change the "showAsAction" attribute to use the new namespace

compat:showAsAction="ifRoom"

Here's a full example with one item in the menu, with the changes on lines 2 and 6 (from Actionbar not shown with AppCompat)

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  xmlns:compat="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto" >
    <item android:id="@+id/action_whatever"
      android:icon="@drawable/ic_action_whatever"
      android:title="@string/whatever"
      compat:showAsAction="ifRoom"  />
</menu>

edited May 23 '17 at 11:57

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answered Mar 02 '14 at 12:38

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Please add the essential parts of the links as part of your answer. – CSchulz Mar 02 '14 at 12:57
Updated to include full answer and the example, as suggested by CSchulz. – avparker Mar 29 '14 at 14:29

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 30 '14 at 12:43

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When using the new ActionBarActivity, you no longer need getSupportMenuInflator. Your code should look like this:

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
    return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
}

When calling invalidateOptionsMenu with ActionBarActivity you do need to use the new support version:

supportInvalidateOptionsMenu();

Those are the only two main differences between ActionBarSherlock and the new ActionBarActivity that I have found.

edited Mar 30 '14 at 12:43

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answered Aug 16 '13 at 13:38

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hm my code was looking that way, but the actions-icons did not show up – ligi Aug 16 '13 at 14:49
Can you post your menu xml and onCreate method? Are you extending ActionBarActivity? – blackcj Aug 16 '13 at 14:54
really hard to extract and I am basically back to ABS where this just worked out of the box and wait for the AppCompat to mature I think before giving it another try ;-) – ligi Aug 16 '13 at 15:51

ActionbarCompat not showing Action-Icons

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