Action bar app icon missing with Android 5

Question

Just rebuilt my app using the Android 5 SDK and associated appcompat.

Seems to work fine but my app icon is no longer showing in top left hand corner. The icon to open

Answer 1

I too noticed that the default projects created by Android Studio were missing the icon in the action bar. Here's how I fixed it.

Disclaimer: This solution will result in in the Material theme being dropped in favor of the older JellyBean/Kitkat styles.

First, change themes setting in styles.xml from this: