Menu Items are not showing on Action Bar

Question

I have made a completely new project. I have added items to the menu layout file. Those items do not show up on the action bar\'s right side. I remember that an

Answer 1

What worked for me was changing a property in menu.xml

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
  <item android:id="@+id/gamingactivity_filter" android:showAsAction="ifRoom"   android:icon="@drawable/ic_filter"/> 

this used to work in Material theme but didn't for AppCompat Theme & Activity so i changed how my menu.xml and add app:showAsAction= property under namespace `"http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">
  <item android:id="@+id/gamingactivity_filter" android:showAsAction="ifRoom"  app:showAsAction="ifRoom" android:icon="@drawable/ic_filter"/>

from actvity inflate menu through OnCreateOptionsMenu(IMenu menu) and now from OnOptionsItemSelected() i can also get the selected item id as

 public override bool OnOptionsItemSelected(IMenuItem item)
        {
                switch (item.ItemId)
                {
                    case Resource.Id.gamingactivity_filter:
                        OnBackPressed();
                        break;
                }
            }
            return true;
        }

Answer 2

all answers above explained this issue well

but can we override this limitation and have the overflow menu item?!!

yes we can hack

 private void makeActionOverflowMenuShown() {
    //devices with hardware menu button (e.g. Samsung Note) don't show action overflow menu
    try {
        ViewConfiguration config = ViewConfiguration.get(this);
        Field menuKeyField = ViewConfiguration.class.getDeclaredField("sHasPermanentMenuKey");
        if (menuKeyField != null) {
            menuKeyField.setAccessible(true);
            menuKeyField.setBoolean(config, false);
        }
    } catch (Exception e) {
        Log.d(TAG, e.getLocalizedMessage());
    }
}

and inside onCreate call it

references: https://stackoverflow.com/a/13098824/4251431

Answer 3

OR you could create a structure like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu >
<item
    android:id="@+id/menu_main"
    android:icon="@drawable/icon_menu"
    android:showAsAction="always"
    android:title="@string/menu_A"
    android:visible="true">
    <menu>
        <item
            android:id="@+id/menu_settings1"
            android:showAsAction="never"
            android:title="@string/menu_A1"/>
        <item
            android:id="@+id/menu_settings2"
            android:showAsAction="never"
            android:title="@string/menu_A2"/>
        <item
            android:id="@+id/menu_settings3"
            android:showAsAction="never"
            android:title="@string/menu_A3"/>
    </menu>
</item>
</menu>

Where the icon_menu you can create a new icon set with the three points icon clipart.

Answer 4

I had the same problem. And I did all of the things that were said above. My problem was I forgot to override onCreateoptionMenu(Menu menu).

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu,menu);
    return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
}

Answer 5

Since you set the showAsAction attribute to never, then these menu items will never show as action views. Try this:

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

    <item
        android:id="@+id/action_settings"
        android:orderInCategory="100"
        android:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText"
        android:title="@string/action_option1"/>
    <item
        android:id="@+id/action_settings34"
        android:orderInCategory="100"
        android:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText"
        android:title="@string/action_option2"/>
    <item
        android:id="@+id/action_settings3"
        android:orderInCategory="100"
        android:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText"
        android:title="@string/action_option3"/>

</menu>

Answer 6

After searching and reading a lot of answer, I found that there is another little thing that you should pay attention to.

At least it was my problem and I didn't find an answer of any above. On your .XML file. Your android:showAsAction= shouldn't be form android package, it should be from app package like in the example below:

app:showAsAction=

Don't forget to import the app package.