icon not display in menu

Question

I want to add icon with menu title in android, but it not display with title. Below is my menu.xml code

<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/rate_app"
    android:title="Rate App"
    android:orderInCategory="100"
    app:showAsAction="never"
    app:icon="@drawable/ic_star_half_24dp"/>

I also used android:icon = "@drawable/ic_star_half_24dp", but it didn't display with menu title

change app:showAsAction="never" to app:showAsAction="always" — Nikos Mitropoulos, Apr 06 '16 at 06:45
Refer this. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19750635/icon-in-menu-not-showing-in-android — ak sacha, Apr 06 '16 at 06:47
I have pasted the answer below and please check the following link I have answered in another post http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27645271/popupmenu-not-showing-icons-and-how-to-highlight-popupmenu-item-when-its-opened/28559445#28559445 — Somasundaram NP, Apr 06 '16 at 07:09

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 06 '16 at 06:48

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If your intended behaviour is to show icon on toolbar

app:showAsAction="never" should be changed to ifRoom or always.

If you want to show icon on overflow menu, then you need to customize the menu item and use popup window instead.

edited Apr 06 '16 at 06:48

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answered Apr 06 '16 at 06:45

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Do you have any formal proof? – Maksim Dmitriev Jan 29 '18 at 16:56

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 06 '16 at 07:04

try this,

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

 <item
    android:id="@+id/A"
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_a"
    android:title="Name A"
    app:showAsAction="always"/>
 <item
    android:id="@+id/B"
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_b"
    android:title="Name B"
    app:showAsAction="always"/>

      <item
    android:id="@+id/a_More"
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_menu_overflow"
    app:showAsAction="always"
    android:title="More">
    <menu>

        <item 
            android:id="@+id/C"
            android:icon="@drawable/ic_c"
            android:title="Name C"
            app:showAsAction="never" />


        <item 
            android:id="@+id/D"
            android:title="Name D"
            app:showAsAction="never" />

        <item 
            android:id="@+id/E"
            android:icon="@drawable/icon_3"
            android:title="Name E"
            app:showAsAction="never" />    


       </menu>
     </item>
  </menu>

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 06 '16 at 07:08

If you are using popup menu just copy the below code and run it, you will get icons in popupmenu

PopupMenu popup = new PopupMenu(getApplicationContext(), view);

try {
    Field[] fields = popup.getClass().getDeclaredFields();
    for (Field field : fields) {
        if ("mPopup".equals(field.getName())) {
            field.setAccessible(true);
            Object menuPopupHelper = field.get(popup);
            Class<?> classPopupHelper = Class.forName(menuPopupHelper
                    .getClass().getName());
            Method setForceIcons = classPopupHelper.getMethod(
                    "setForceShowIcon", boolean.class);
            setForceIcons.invoke(menuPopupHelper, true);
            break;
        }
    }
} catch (Exception e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

    popup.getMenuInflater()
                    .inflate(R.menu.publisher, popup.getMenu());

                    //registering popup with OnMenuItemClickListener
                    popup.setOnMenuItemClickListener(new PopupMenu.OnMenuItemClickListener() {
                        public boolean onMenuItemClick(MenuItem item) {

                            switch (item.getItemId()) {
                            case R.id.menu:
                                //your function
                                return true;
                                                        default:
                                break;
                            }
                            return false;
                        }
                    });
                    popup.show();

icon not display in menu

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