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meskh
meskh

Reputation: 158

Text or Icon in action bar, stuck with the 3 dots

I'm making an android app in Eclipse. I want to place a text or icon in the action bar, but when I am writing in menu.xml, which looks like this:

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
  <item
        android:id="@+id/createnew"
        android:orderInCategory="1"
        android:showAsAction="ifRoom"
        android:title="CREATE"/>
   </menu>

it puts it in the options menu. I want to separate it.

I see this in the app when I run it: (sorry can't post pictures because I don't have enough rep)

I want to CREATE next to the option menu like this for example:

Upvotes: -1

Views: 1000

Answers (2)

Bryan Herbst
Bryan Herbst

Reputation: 67189

Since you are using the AppCompat Actionbar, you need to use a custom namespaced showAsAction attribute.

It should look something like this:

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      xmlns:yourapp="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto" >
    <item
        android:id="@+id/createnew"
        android:orderInCategory="1"
        yourapp:showAsAction="ifRoom"
        android:title="CREATE"/>
</menu>

Note that this uses yourapp:showAsAction instead of android:showAsAction. This is because the showAsAction attribute is not available on pre-Honeycomb devices and is provided by the support library.

For more information, read the Action Bar developer guide.

Upvotes: 2

CaseyB
CaseyB

Reputation: 25060

It's caused by this line

android:showAsAction="ifRoom"

That tells Android to put it up there if it's going to fit nicely. If you want it up there no matter the fit use

android:showAsAction="always"

Upvotes: 0

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