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I am having difficulty adding an extra icon (the ic_launcher is added in the styles.xml; there is no menu.xml) to the ActionBar. I have added a dropdown which works fine (the 3 dots), but if I use the following code the "Item" text is added to this and not the ActionBar (the icon appears nowhere).

 private void CreateMenu(Menu menu) {
    MenuItem mnu1 = menu.add(0,0,0,"Item"); {
       mnu1.setIcon(R.drawable.ic_newicon);
    }

 public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {   //--- Everything in the dropdown works fine --
    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.activity_main_actions, menu);     //--- The dropdown menu --
    return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
    ...
 }

I am obviously missing something simple here. Can anyone assist please?

Phantômaxx
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try this 

Drawable drawable = ContextCompat.getDrawable(getApplicationContext(),R.drawable.yourDrawable);
    toolbar.setOverflowIcon(drawable);

for other options check out following links link1

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  • Problem solved. I had simply omitted "android:showAsAction="always" from the xml file so it now works OK. Thanks again. – Archdeacon Aug 07 '17 at 15:02