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androidandroid-layoutandroid-actionbarmenuitemandroid-menu
Robin
Robin

Reputation: 315

app:showAsAction is always showing "never" attribute

I'm just a beginner so I was trying to make an Android app specifically to learn about menu.xml and ActionBar. So I'm trying to add MenuItems, here's my menu.xml code: 

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

    <item android:id="@+id/action_order_pizza"
          android:icon="@drawable/order_pizza"
          android:title="@string/order_pizza"
          android:orderInCategory="1"
          PizzaApp:showAsAction="ifRoom"/>

    <item android:id="@+id/action_settings"
          android:title="@string/action_settings"
          android:orderInCategory="2"
          PizzaApp:showAsAction="never"/>

</menu>

Since I wanted my app to use Material design, I didn't actually extend the AppCompatActivity, but I used the support.v7.app dependency, just to make the app compatible. Now since support.v7.app library doesn't contain the showAsAction function, I used my AppName in the menu.xml instead of android. But the problem is that beside action_setting item, action_order_pizza is also showing up in the overflow instead of the ActionBar. Please help! And here is the MainActivity code:

import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_main, menu);
        return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
    }

Thanks in advance!

Note: If I'm using android instead of PizzaApp, Android Studio shows an error though still when you run the app, it works fine!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1488

Answers (1)

ianhanniballake
ianhanniballake

Reputation: 199815

If you want to use any part of AppCompat such as app:showAsAction, you should extend AppCompatActivity and use Theme.AppCompat. Theme.AppCompat extends Theme.Material and will allow you to use material design on all API 9+ devices.

Upvotes: 1

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