Items in ActionBarCompat are showed always in Overflow

Question

I\'m using ActionBarCompat in my app, an I want to show one or two items in the action bar

I follwed the guide of google developers, but when I test it, the items are sh

Answer 1

I had the same problem, and found two solutions:

In the menu xml (Login.xml), use your app name for the showAsAction tag:

instead of:

use:

I suppose your application's name is shady.

the second solution for me, on the activity class, at the onCreateOptionsMenu()

public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    super.onCreateOptionsMenu(
    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
    MenuItem registerMenuItem = menu.findItem(R.id.action_register);
    registerMenuItem.setShowAsAction(MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_ALWAYS); // change this in backcompat
    return true;
}

if you are using backCompatibility, change last line:

MenuItemCompat.setShowAsAction(registerMenuItem,MenuItemCompat.SHOW_AS_ACTION_ALWAYS);