Question

I am trying to implement ActionBarSherlock in my application and I need to show the menu at the top of my application, integrated in action bar. The problem is that it’s not working properly. I am using it like this :

public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    menu.add("Refresh")
        .setIcon(R.drawable.ic_action_refresh)
        .setShowAsAction(MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_ALWAYS);

    menu.add("Settings")
        .setIcon(R.drawable.ic_action_settings)
        .setShowAsAction(MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_ALWAYS);
    return true;
}

So the thing which I want to achieve is to show at the right side of my action bar a refresh icon and a menu icon, which should open the default menus when clicked. I checked ForcedOverflowItem example in ActionbarSherlock Demos, but it’s not working as I want. I need to look the same as in Android 2.+ and in Android 4.+.

Any advices / helps / suggestions how can I get this to work?

Answer 1

From what I read in ActionbarSherlock’s documentation you cannot force the menu icon to appear in Android 4.+. When the device has a menu button the menu icon does not appear. I guess the guy who wrote ActionbarSherlock knows the subject matter well 😉