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Asked: 2026-06-05T06:59:12+00:00

If I click on the overflow action bar icon, I only see my menu

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If I click on the “overflow” action bar icon, I only see my menu items as text, but the icon is not displayed!
Is this the default behaviour? How can I force showing the icon?

If you look at http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/actionbar.html > “Sharing data” image, it at least seems to be possible to have icons there. But how?

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    Is this the default behaviour?

    Yes.

    How can I force showing the icon?

    AFAIK, you can’t. The icons are used on action bar items (toolbar buttons), and on classic options menus (e.g., Android 2.x).

    If you look at http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/actionbar.html > “Sharing data” image, it at least seems to be possible to have icons there.

    That is not the overflow. That is a ShareActionProvider. You can tell this by reading the page you linked to:

    Whenever your app permits sharing of data, such as images or movie clips, use a share action provider in your action bar. The share action provider is designed to speed up sharing by displaying the most recently used sharing service next to a spinner button that contains other sharing options.

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