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:

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

    <item
        android:id="@+id/action_settings"
        android:orderInCategory="100"
        android:title="@string/action_settings"
        android:showAsAction="never"
        android:visible="true" />

</menu>

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);
}

Answer 2

If your toolbar is of the package android.support.v7.widget, use setSupportActionBar(mToolbar); instead of setActionBar(mToolbar);