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Asked: 2026-06-15T16:24:26+00:00

Here is my menu item. <item android:id=@+id/stores android:orderInCategory=100 android:icon=@drawable/stores android:showAsAction=never android:title=@string/favoritestores/> It shows the

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Here is my menu item. 

    <item
    android:id="@+id/stores"
    android:orderInCategory="100"
    android:icon="@drawable/stores"
    android:showAsAction="never"
    android:title="@string/favoritestores"/>

It shows the text alone and not the icon in the drop down. I have the drawable in the path correctly. I am using this in API level 14+ . What might be the issue in this?

I have tried to set icon through code. But still I am not able to see icons

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.home, menu);
    MenuItem menuItem = menu.findItem(R.id.menu_settings);
            menuItem.setIcon(R.drawable.action_search);
    return true;
}
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  1. Editorial Team

    Icons are not shown since Android 3.0 Honeycomb (API level 11+). If you run it on some older Android, you should see them…

    If you wanted to show those icons however, you would have to use them in ActionBar

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