ActionbarSherlock does not include "overflow" section of Action Bar (on Android 2.1)

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I am developing Android 2.1 API 7 app. To implement action bar, I am using ActionbarSherlock library.

Everything goes fine with the sherlock library, I can implement action bar with it in my project with the following code.

res/menu/action_menu.xml :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

    <item android:id="@+id/new_payment_1"
          android:title="@string/new_payment"       
          />    

    <item 
          android:id="@+id/label_1"
          android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
          android:showAsAction="always"/>

    <item 
          android:id="@+id/label_2"
          android:title="text2"
          android:showAsAction="always"/>

    <!-- overflow section of action bar -->
    <item android:title="title2"/>

    <item android:title="title3"/>

    <item android:title="title4"/>

</menu>

In my Activity class:

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
   MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
   inflater.inflate(R.menu.action_menu, menu);
   return true;
}

I got action bar successfully with above code. No problem at all on Android 3.2 platform.

BUT the problem is if I run my app on Android 2.1 platform, the action bar has no overflow section on the Action Bar. Why??? Anyone has experienced the same problem when using Sherlock library on old Android platform??

(P.S. "overflow section" of action bar is the right-most part of action bar which hides some items like a popup menu. More info here )

score 10 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 14 '12 at 13:05

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It uses the native options menu as overflow, just as an Ice Cream Sandwich phone would should one be made with a hardware menu key.

Forcing an overflow action item to be on the action bar on pre-4.0 devices will be a feature of version 4 of ActionBarSherlock.

answered Feb 14 '12 at 13:05

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Thanks, for the information. Do you know if I switch to use ActionbarCompat, will the overflow action be on the action bar on pre-3.2 devices??? – Mellon Feb 14 '12 at 14:19
No, it uses the same technique. – Jake Wharton Feb 14 '12 at 15:03
@ Jake, is there any way to make my app to have overflow action on the action bar on pre-3.2 device (Meanwhile using native action bar component for 3.2+ device) ? – Mellon Feb 14 '12 at 15:05
Not with version 3. Version 4 will support this. – Jake Wharton Feb 14 '12 at 15:11
Thank you, and when will version 4 be released? – Mellon Feb 14 '12 at 15:19
The first release candidate will be this evening. Final release is currently targeted at March 7th. – Jake Wharton Feb 14 '12 at 15:21
Thank you, so, where can I get the first release which is supposed to be in this evening? And I can find the v4 on March 7th from official website right? – Mellon Feb 14 '12 at 15:27
I have download version 4 but still there is problem – Krutik Apr 23 '12 at 10:28
For those who are looking for answers: use Theme.Sherlock.*.ForceOverflow – Ben Lee Sep 05 '12 at 07:36
Please DO NOT use the ForceOverflow themes. They will be removed in the next major version of the library. – Jake Wharton Sep 05 '12 at 15:58
@JakeWharton ..please guide me too on creating action overflow icon ... i ahve downloaded library from http://actionbarsherlock.com/ tar file ... – Shruti Sep 21 '12 at 06:54

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:09

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Support for overflow menu for pre-Ice Cream Sandwich devices has been removed from ActionBarSherlock. A good discussion of this can be found here: Force overflow menu in ActionBarSherlock

edited May 23 '17 at 12:09

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