How to make the overflow popup menu avoid obstructing the action bar?

Question

Background

On my app, when I\'ve updated to the new support library and also tried on Lollipop, I\'ve noticed a weird issue: when clicking on the overflow button of th

Answer 1

If you're using ActionBarActivity, you'll need to override the appcompat version of the overflow menu style along with the appcompat versions of the popup attributes, where applicable.

<resources>
    <style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light" />

    <style name="AppTheme" parent="AppBaseTheme">
        <item name="actionOverflowMenuStyle">@style/OverflowMenu</item>
    </style>

    <style name="OverflowMenu" parent="Widget.AppCompat.PopupMenu.Overflow">
        <!-- Required for pre-Lollipop. -->
        <item name="overlapAnchor">false</item>

        <!-- Required for Lollipop. -->
        <item name="android:overlapAnchor">false</item>
    </style>

</resources>