Android Menu item is displayed in overflow area even with app:showAsAction always

Question

I am using MainActivity to extend Activity class. Project is using minimum API as 11. When I am inflating Menu Items, it always gets displayed in overflow.

public class MainActivity extends Activity {
....
@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu)
{
    // Inflate the Menu Items
    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_main,menu);
    return true;
}

menu_main.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
 xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
 xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
 tools:context=".MainActivity">
 <item android:id="@+id/attach"
    android:title="Attachment"
    android:orderInCategory="1"
    app:showAsAction="always"/>

</menu>

Styles.xml

<!-- Base application theme. -->
<style name="AppTheme" parent="android:Theme.Holo.Light">
    <!-- Customize your theme here. -->
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/colorAccent</item>
</style>

Please don't put the screenshots of code – Raghavendra Sep 06 '17 at 07:47 — Raghavendra, Sep 06 '17 at 07:47
post menu_main.xml file – Amit Vaghela Sep 06 '17 at 07:50 — Amit Vaghela, Sep 06 '17 at 07:50

Raghavendra · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-06T10:56:35.213

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Your MainActivity extends Activity not AppcompatActivity and you are using android: Theme.Holo.Light native theme so, can u just replace

app:showAsAction="always" with android:showAsAction="always"

and try, like

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
 xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
 xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
 tools:context=".MainActivity">
 <item android:id="@+id/attach"
    android:title="Attachment"
    android:orderInCategory="1"
    android:showAsAction="always"/>

</menu>

edited Sep 06 '17 at 10:56

answered Sep 06 '17 at 08:07

Raghavendra

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Thanks. It was somwhow referring to old AppcompatActivity dependency. – Biswajit ghosh Sep 06 '17 at 08:16
this answer doest work when i extend Activity and use android:showAsAction="always" . this answer is wrong@Biswajitghosh – Amit Vaghela Sep 06 '17 at 08:42
@AmitVaghela which theme you r using? – Raghavendra Sep 06 '17 at 09:45
parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar" – Amit Vaghela Sep 06 '17 at 09:46
@AmitVaghela he is using android:Theme.Holo.Light that's the difference. I hope you get it?:) – Raghavendra Sep 06 '17 at 09:47
this is a overflow or underflow issue not a theme issue – Amit Vaghela Sep 06 '17 at 09:49
@AmitVaghela As I know it depends on the Theme of the application OP using the native android:Theme.Holo.Light theme and you are using support theme that makes difference I guess? – Raghavendra Sep 06 '17 at 09:56
@AmitVaghela it might help https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/menu-resource.html and https://developer.android.com/training/appbar/setting-up.html – Raghavendra Sep 06 '17 at 10:01
nop, something is wrong. this issue can be solved using my answer also – Amit Vaghela Sep 06 '17 at 10:10
@AmitVaghela okay can u change your theme to android:Theme.Holo.Light and try once? – Raghavendra Sep 06 '17 at 10:11
@AmitVaghela I have tried with your answer. It's showing as overflow menu . I can share the screenshot if u want – Raghavendra Sep 06 '17 at 10:17
got it but it is showing me error in showAsAction using same case – Amit Vaghela Sep 06 '17 at 10:17
@AmitVaghela u need to change the xmlns I guess in menu – Raghavendra Sep 06 '17 at 10:18
using that only it gives warning in menu file – Amit Vaghela Sep 06 '17 at 10:40
@AmitVaghela its a warning right. We need to use Appcompat. It starts from changing the Theme itself – Raghavendra Sep 06 '17 at 10:42
@AmitVaghela so how can we conclude this long conversation? :D Are u agree with the answer? – Raghavendra Sep 06 '17 at 10:46
@AmitVaghela okay both are correct! :D depends on the scenario – Raghavendra Sep 06 '17 at 10:48
dont you think that is wrong ? – Amit Vaghela Sep 06 '17 at 10:51
@AmitVaghela if it's wrong my answer won't work for the OP :D – Raghavendra Sep 06 '17 at 10:52

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 06 '17 at 07:49

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Set it as showAsAction="always"

answered Sep 06 '17 at 07:49

Muhammad Rayyan Siddiqui

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Still no helping.. – Biswajit ghosh Sep 06 '17 at 07:56

Amit Vaghela · Answer 3 · 2017-09-06T08:07:15.993

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Try this code,

to show in overflow :

yourapp:showAsAction="always"

to show underflow

yourapp:showAsAction="never"

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:yourapp="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">
    <!-- Search, should appear as action button -->
    <item
        android:id="@+id/attach"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_action_hardware_keyboard_arrow_left"
        android:title="Attachment"
        android:orderInCategory="1"
        yourapp:showAsAction="ifRoom" />

</menu>

check this menu resource doc

edited Sep 06 '17 at 08:07

answered Sep 06 '17 at 07:56

Amit Vaghela

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try my updated answer and tell me if you have any issues@Biswajit ghosh – Amit Vaghela Sep 06 '17 at 08:09
HI Amit thanks for your answer . But It will work only if your project has a dependency on AppCompat. Since i deleted Appcompat dependency so i had to use android:showAsAction instead of a custom namespace like yourapp: . – Biswajit ghosh Sep 07 '17 at 18:20

Android Menu item is displayed in overflow area even with app:showAsAction always

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