Android options menu icon won't display

Question

I\'m following a book on Android Development to get myself started writing my first real app. I got up to the point where I\'m making an options menu for one of my activitie

Answer 1

A good idea is that you created a layout with RelativeLayout and when user selected your menu, your layout is displayed.

Answer 2

This is perfectly working for me in API 23

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
tools:context=".MainActivity">
<item
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_menu"
    android:orderInCategory="100"
    android:title="Option Menu"
    app:showAsAction="always">
    <menu>
        <item
            android:id="@+id/action_myorder"
            android:icon="@drawable/ic_order"
            android:title="My Order" />
        <item
            android:id="@+id/action_myaccount"
            android:icon="@drawable/ic_account"
            android:title="My Account" />
        <item
            android:id="@+id/action_share"
            android:icon="@drawable/ic_share"
            android:title="Share" />
        <item
            android:id="@+id/action_term_condition"
            android:icon="@drawable/ic_terms"
            android:title="Term and Conditions" />
        <item
            android:id="@+id/action_logout"
            android:icon="@drawable/ic_logout"
            android:title="Logout" />
    </menu>
</item>

Answer 3

On Android 3.0+, the preferred approach for the options menu (a spillover menu in the action bar) will not show icons. If you have android:targetSdkVersion="11" or higher, icons will never show up in menus on Android 3.0+. The icons will show up if you promote an options menu item to be a toolbar button, and the icons will show up on Android 1.x/2.x devices.