Showing a menu overflow button in a Toolbar

Question

I\'ve created a Toolbar for Lollipop, but I can\'t seem to figure out how to add an overflow button to the toolbar. I\'m not going to be using the v7 appcompat

Answer 1

If you want to add the item in the overflow menu you should set never as android:showAsAction. If you set always the item will be an icon in the toolbar.

Edit your menu.xml like this:

Also you need to call setActionBar(). Edit initToolbar() like this:

private void initToolbar() {
    mToolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
    mToolbar.setTitleTextColor(Color.WHITE);
    mToolbar.setTitle("gnappo");
    mToolbar.showOverflowMenu();
    setActionBar(mToolbar);
}