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

<item
    android:id="@+id/ok"
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_ok"
    android:orderInCategory="0"
    android:showAsAction="ifRoom"
    android:title="OK"/>

Answer 2

This is also true for the Android Toolbar in new Material Design concepts in the AppCompat-v21 and API levels 21 and above.

Answer 3

We have two ways to solute this problem.

1. You need add libs "ActionBarSherlock".This is usage of ActionbarSherlock.

OR 2. You need add libs "android-Support-v7". If you choice this method ,then your menu.xml need like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:v7="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto" >
<item
    android:id="..."
    android:icon="..."
    android:showAsAction="always"
    android:title="..."
    v7:showAsAction="always"/>
</menu>

Answer 4

The question has been updated to include the answer, but for anyone who is interested in the official documentation, see http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/actionbar.html#ActionItems and pay particular attention to the note about using a custom namespace for the showAsAction attribute.

Answer 5

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:

<item
    android:id="@+id/action_register"
    android:showAsAction="always"
    android:icon="@drawable/some_icon"
    android:title="@string/login_menu_register" />

use:

<item
    android:id="@+id/action_register"
    yourappname:showAsAction="always"
    android:icon="@drawable/some_icon"
    android:title="@string/login_menu_register" />

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);

Answer 6

I think you need to provide the icon for these actions so they can appear in the action bar.

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      xmlns:shudy="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto" >

<item
    android:id="@+id/action_register"
    android:showAsAction="always"
    android:icon="@drawable/some_icon"
    android:title="@string/login_menu_register" />
<item
    android:id="@+id/action_register2"
    android:showAsAction="always"
    android:icon="@drawable/some_icon2"
    android:title="miau" />

</menu>