No App Icon on ActionBar

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There are a lot of queries here about adding icons to ActionBar but none solved my problem. If you know a duplicate of this question, feel free to comment or close this question.

I migrated my project to IntelliJ and I didn't encounter this problem with my previous IDE (Eclipse).

PROBLEM: The app icon is not displayed in the ActionBar.

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I think it's supposed to be added by default that's why I can't add it through its XML

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Here's its XML

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    tools:context=".MainActivity" >

    <item android:id="@+id/action_settings"
        android:title="@string/action_settings"
        android:orderInCategory="100"
        app:showAsAction="always" />
</menu>

Thanks!

Refer to this Answer which is explained in very detailed: http://stackoverflow.com/a/14483595/4750017 — Arbaz Alam, Mar 19 '16 at 13:47

score 40 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

As of AppCompat version 21, the Action Bar follows the material design guidelines and uses a Toolbar:

A title and subtitle. The title should be a signpost for the Toolbar's current position in the navigation hierarchy and the content contained there. The subtitle, if present should indicate any extended information about the current content. If an app uses a logo image it should strongly consider omitting a title and subtitle.

In modern Android UIs developers should lean more on a visually distinct color scheme for toolbars than on their application icon. The use of application icon plus title as a standard layout is discouraged on API 21 devices and newer.

However, if you want an application icon, setLogo() is the correct method.

Great answer! This is how answers are supposed to be written imho. — flo, Feb 25 '16 at 13:41

score 28 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 23 '22 at 14:55

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Update your onCreate() method with the code below.

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    getSupportActionBar().setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(true);
    getSupportActionBar().setLogo(R.drawable.ic_launcher);
    getSupportActionBar().setDisplayUseLogoEnabled(true);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
}

NOTE: ic_launcher is the icon you want to display in your actionbar. To display it, add the icon in the drawable folder of your app project.

edited Aug 23 '22 at 14:55

cb4

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answered Sep 25 '15 at 11:03

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Worked for me as well. :) Awesome. simplest solution. copy & paste 3 lines of code & you're done. – sagarkothari May 25 '16 at 02:53
worked like magic. awesome! – federico verchez Jul 02 '22 at 13:00

score 9 · Answer 3 · edited Aug 23 '22 at 14:57

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In your Style.xml file:

 <style name="MyTheme_ActionBar" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light">
   <item name="icon">@drawable/actionbar_logo</item>
  </style>

In activity add this code:

ActionBar mActionBar = getSupportActionBar();
mActionBar.setDisplayOptions(ActionBar.DISPLAY_HOME_AS_UP | ActionBar.DISPLAY_SHOW_CUSTOM | ActionBar.DISPLAY_SHOW_HOME);

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answered Jun 01 '15 at 06:26

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I added "ActionBar.DISPLAY_SHOW_TITLE" to get the title as well. – lenooh Jun 30 '15 at 17:41

score 3 · Answer 4 · edited Jan 12 '17 at 13:52

If you don't care about the Material theme and are fine having an Activity that looks more JellyBean/Kitkat style and includes the icon in the Action Bar, you can do the following:

First, change themes setting in styles.xml from this:

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">

To this:

<style name="AppTheme" parent="android:Theme.Holo.Light.DarkActionBar">

Now change all your Activities to inherit from android.app.Activity instead of android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity. That is:

Change this:

import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity;

public class MainActivity extends ActionBarActivity{

To this:

import android.app.Activity;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

The end of result of doing both of the above steps is that the icon as specified by the android:icon attribute in AndroidManifest.xml will appear in the Action Bar.

score 3 · Answer 5 · edited Aug 23 '22 at 14:54

This worked for me. Your onCreate method should have these lines:

ActionBar menu = getSupportActionBar();
menu.setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(true);
menu.setIcon(R.mipmap.imageFile);

Make sure the imageFile is a .png in the mipmap folder. To get the icon exactly at the start of your action bar, the mipmap folder should have multiple versions of the image file in all screen sizes: hdpi, mdpi, xhdpi, xxhdpi, xxxhdpi, etc.

score 1 · Answer 6 · edited Aug 23 '22 at 14:48

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Setting Icon On the Action Bar

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If you are extending Activity this should be enough:

getActionBar().setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(true);

If you are extending AppCompatActivity then additional code is needed:

ActionBar actionBar = getSupportActionBar();
actionBar.setIcon(R.mipmap.ic_launcher);
actionBar.setDisplayShowHomeEnabled(true);

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answered Jan 05 '18 at 06:22

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