Copy and paste bar icons not shown in Action Items bar pre lollipop (5.0)

Question

I've been experiencing this weird problem.

Copy and paste icons do not show up in my apps action items bar pre lollipop.

I enable the copy and paste like this:

 mTextView.setTextIsSelectable(true);

Screeenshots attached:

Copy and paste bars not shown: only white space

My theme is in styles is : Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar

Help appreciated from anyone.

Answer 1

Your build.gradle use last version AppCompat library

compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:22.2.0'

And your activity need extends of AppCompatActivity

public class YourActivity extends AppCompatActivity

Answer 2

Just upgrade your compat library to 22.2.0, it solves the problem for me.

In build.gradle:

compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:22.2.0'
compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:22.2.0'