Android actionbar icons always in overflow

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I declared my menu items with android:showAsAction="ifRoom". My Activity is extending ActionBarActivity. In preview it is as expected but when run on my phone is it always in overflow.

From what I've seen nothing else is needed. My phone runs in Android 4.4.2 KitKat.

Am I missing anything else?

Could this be by design, because the phone screen is just to small? What happens if you use "always"? @CommonsWare is right, some more info would be useful. — Rolf ツ
– Rolf ツ, Commented Feb 15, 2014 at 20:28
@RolfSmit No, it's because aambrozkiewicz is using ActionBarCompat and you have to use a custom namespace, if you want to use attributes, that were introduced in newer versions. — Ahmad
– Ahmad, Commented Feb 15, 2014 at 20:33

Ahmad · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-15 20:29:38Z

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You have to define your own namespace, if you want to use the showAsAction attribute with ActionBarCompat(I assume you are using ActionBarCompat because you mentioned, that you're extending ActionBarActivity):

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

and use showAsAction like this:

<item [...] app:showAsAction="always"></item>

answered Feb 15, 2014 at 20:29

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aambrozkiewicz Over a year ago

Great, thanks! I had that namespace but tried to use android:showAsAction.

Ishita Sinha · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-31 13:00:05Z

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Just try this...

<item android:id="@+id/action_blah"
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_c"
    android:title="@string/action_blah"
    app:showAsAction="(yourOptions)"/>

(yourOptions):

always = To force to show on the actionbar.
never = Not to show on your actionbar ever. and
ifRoom = It will let your item if there is enough space on your action bar.

You can see these in Landscape mode.

HappyCoding

edited Aug 31, 2016 at 13:00

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answered Aug 31, 2016 at 10:05

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