android sherlock actionbar menu item going wrong

Question

as the title suggest, I am getting a problem with the action Bar since i have recently installed android Api 22 under eclipse and jdk-7u76-windows-i586. Before the action Bar keep to display the icon with sdk version 7 and higher. But now icon is displayed only with sdk version 11 and higher,did I miss something or am I just blind?, here are the menu XML file and a screen shot:

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

<item android:id="@+id/share"
      android:icon="@drawable/ic_action_add_group"
      android:title="share info"
      android:showAsAction="ifRoom" />

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 22 '15 at 23:16

Good i finally find the answer. But what is strange is that the code use to work before the sdk update:Means that this newer version of sdk has a good improvement about XML files. Then more errors get detected by the oldest versions.
Now how to solve problem with sherlock action Bar menu item?

if you want it to work for android api 11 and higher(Android 4.x or 5.x ) simply add this piece of code:
Create a file in rsc/menu/ eg:menu.xml
Now put:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" 
   >

<item 
android:id="@+id/send"
android:title="@string/Send"
android:icon="@drawable/ic_action_new_event"
android:showAsAction="ifRoom" 
/>

 </menu>

And add a sample styles:in rsc/values/ :

   <style name="AppTheme"    
  parent="android:Theme.Holo.Light.DarkActionBar"  />

   </resources>

This in your Activity:

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu){

    MenuInflater inflater = getSupportMenuInflater();
    inflater.inflate(R.menu.men, menu);


       return true;
    }

if you want it to work for android api 7 to 10(Android 2.x to Android 3.x) use something like this one in you class Activity:

  THEME == R.style.Theme_Sherlock_Light;

  @Override

  public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu){



   boolean isLight = THEME == R.style.Theme_Sherlock_Light;

  menu.add(R.string.Send)

 .setIcon(isLight ? R.drawable.ic_action_group : 

    R.drawable.ic_action_person)
     .setShowAsAction(MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_IF_ROOM);

   menu.add(R.id.get)
              .setIcon(isLight ?   

  R.drawable.ic_action_chat:          
   R.drawable.ic_action_chat)
       .setShowAsAction(MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_IF_ROOM |           

      MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_WITH_TEXT);

    menu.add("Refresh")
    .setIcon(isLight ? R.drawable.ic_action_time :        

    R.drawable.ic_action_volume_on)
     .setShowAsAction(MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_IF_ROOM |   
     MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_WITH_TEXT);
  return true;
          }

To respond to a click use somthing like this:

@Override
 public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {


     if (item.toString()==getString(R.string.Send)) {
      Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, "Got click: " + item,       
 Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
 }

  return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
 }

And add a sample styles:in src/values/:

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<resources>
<style name="Theme.Styled"   

parent="Theme.Sherlock.Light.DarkActionBar">

<item name="actionBarStyle">@style/Widget.Styled.ActionBar</item>

<item      
name="android:actionBarStyle">@style/Widget.Styled.ActionBar</item>
     </style>

 <style name="Widget.Styled.ActionBar" 

            parent="Widget.Sherlock.Light.ActionBar.Solid.Inverse">

<item name="background">@drawable/bg_striped</item>
<item name="android:background">@drawable/bg_striped</item>

<item name="backgroundSplit">@drawable/bg_striped_split</item>
<item         
name="android:backgroundSplit">@drawable/bg_striped_split</item>
 </style>
 </resources>

android sherlock actionbar menu item going wrong

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