Default ActionBar with Settings button

Question

Although I am new in android developing, lately, I have been trying to add a settings button in the default ActionBar that Android Studio provides (as shown in the picture below). However, all the tutorials I have stamped on start with changing the app Theme to: android:theme="@style/Theme.APpCompat.Light.NoActionBar"

Is there any way I can avoid changing Theme and just add that setting about in the default ActionBar?

I think this can help you https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35648913/how-to-set-menu-to-toolbar-in-android — Crammeur, Aug 03 '18 at 18:24
Totally helped. I guess this way it will let me keep the default ActionBar of Android Studio. Thanks! — Vaggelis Manousakis, Aug 03 '18 at 18:27

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 03 '18 at 18:26

You can do this by inflating your menu to the toolbar. Override this method in your java class.

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

You custom menu should look something like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

>
<item
    android:id="@+id/night_mode"
    android:title="?attr/theme_text"
    app:showAsAction="never"
    android:icon="?attr/theme_icon"/>
<item
    android:id="@+id/action_about"
    android:title="@string/about_text"
    app:showAsAction="never"
    android:icon="?attr/about_icon"/>
<item
    android:id="@+id/action_logout"
    android:title="@string/action_logout_text"
    app:showAsAction="never"
    android:icon="?attr/logout_icon"/>

Here's something more about menus: https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/menus

Default ActionBar with Settings button

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