android actionbar menu overlapping on api 16

Question

I've one android with with minimun sdk 16
The app itself is working fine and i'm adjusting last visual details
I noticed that my action bar is not displaying properly on API 16

the left side is screenshot on api 16 the right side is screenshot on api 27

how can i make api 16 look like 27

You can try using a CustomMenu and then inflating it as a Popup. That will give you what you need. — Ümañg ßürmån, Sep 27 '18 at 09:07
Maybe this helps: [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34738893/how-to-show-menu-popup-exact-below-actionbar](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34738893/how-to-show-menu-popup-exact-below-actionbar) — tobifasc, Sep 27 '18 at 09:08

Kevin Kurien · Answer 1 · 2018-09-27T13:52:18.987

This is the desired behaviour according to new design guidelines. You are using appCompat so it is supposed to happen. see Menus - Component

Update: If you still don't want the overflow menu to overlap action bar, you will have to override overflow menu style from appCompat. This might work

<resources>
    <style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light" />

    <style name="AppTheme" parent="AppBaseTheme">
        <item name="actionOverflowMenuStyle">@style/OverflowMenu</item>
    </style>

    <style name="OverflowMenu" parent="Widget.AppCompat.PopupMenu.Overflow">
        <item name="overlapAnchor">false</item>
   <item name="android:dropDownVerticalOffset">-4.0dip</item>
  <!-- Required for Lollipop. -->
   <item name="android:overlapAnchor">false</item>
   <item name="android:dropDownVerticalOffset">4.0dip</item>
    </style>

</resources>

For Lollipop style must be in values-v21.

About the margin on the right I looked at many site only solution I could find link .
<item name="android:dropDownHorizontalOffset">-16dp</item> try changing the value to set it

Hope it helps

@RafaelLima i have edited my code try it and tell me what happens — Kevin Kurien, Sep 27 '18 at 10:52
it solves partially the problem... check result: https://imgur.com/ws4Vpwy — Rafael Lima, Sep 27 '18 at 13:12
i had tried before `android:dropDownHorizontalOffset` changes nothing... — Rafael Lima, Sep 27 '18 at 14:17

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