Question

I have added , menu items to my code by :

 public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    //Used to put dark icons on light action bar

    menu.add("Save")
        .setShowAsAction(MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_IF_ROOM);
    return true;
}

The problem is i can view the menu item by clicking on the menu button on the emulator , but why it isn’t appearing on the action bar as it is supposed to .

I have 3 tabs in my app , which i’ve implemented using tabactivity . and i am using actionbrsherlock .
I can view the menu item on action bar in android 2.3.3 , but not in android 4.0.3 . In 4.0.3 , it just appears when i click on menu button .

Answer 1

try as per this link

On pre-Honeycomb the overflow menu for ActionBarSherlock (that is, item that do not fit into the action bar) will be placed in the normal options menu by default.

and can try

 menu.add("Save")
        .setIcon(R.drawable.save)
        .setShowAsAction(MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_IF_ROOM | MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_WITH_TEXT);