Menu Items Are Not Showing on Action Bar

Menu Items are not showing on Action Bar

Since you set the showAsAction attribute to never, then these menu items will never show as action views. Try this:

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

    <item
        android:id="@+id/action_settings"
        android:orderInCategory="100"
        android:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText"
        android:title="@string/action_option1"/>
    <item
        android:id="@+id/action_settings34"
        android:orderInCategory="100"
        android:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText"
        android:title="@string/action_option2"/>
    <item
        android:id="@+id/action_settings3"
        android:orderInCategory="100"
        android:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText"
        android:title="@string/action_option3"/>

</menu>

Menu is not showing on Action Bar

there is a problem in enclosing of menu items:

 <?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">
<item android:id="@+id/exit"
    android:orderInCategory="102"
    android:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText"
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_menu_exit"
    android:title="@string/menuitem_exit" />  //item not enclosed properly

<item android:id="@+id/about"
    android:orderInCategory="101"
    android:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText"
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_menu_info_details"
    android:title="@string/menuitem_about" />
</menu>

Keep it simple:

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

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

android - menu item not showing in action bar

You should use below method after initialization of Toolbar.

  Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
  setSupportActionBar(toolbar);

Action Bar Not Showing Menu Items

You are missing following function in your Fragment that indicates this Fragment has a menu.

setHasOptionsMenu(true);

Call this function in your onCreateView function.

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Fragment.html#setHasOptionsMenu(boolean)

action bar menu item are showing but not working

i have manage to find the problem and i solved it. the problem was with Drawer layout which was in the content.xml file i take this drawer and place it in Activity.xml and problem solved....

<android.support.v4.widget.DrawerLayout
    android:id="@+id/drawer_layout"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

<FrameLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

        <android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:theme="@style/AppTheme.AppBarOverlay">

                <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
                    android:id="@+id/toolbar"
                    android:layout_width="match_parent"
                    android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
                    android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
                    app:popupTheme="@style/AppTheme.PopupOverlay" />

        </android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>

        <include layout="@layout/content_main" />

     </FrameLayout>

ActionBar menuItem not showing text

I'm not sure why withText wouldn't work for me so I just created an actionLayout to use instead.

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">
    <item
        android:id="@+id/toolbar_right_button"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_toolbar_locked"
        android:orderInCategory="1"
        android:title="Logout"
        app:actionLayout="@layout/menu_item_logout"
        app:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText"/>
</menu>

and the actionLayout:

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content">
    <Button
        android:id="@+id/logout_button"
        style="?android:attr/borderlessButtonStyle"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:drawableRight="@drawable/ic_toolbar_locked"
        android:gravity="center_vertical"
        android:text="Logout"
        android:textColor="@color/PrimaryColour"/>
</RelativeLayout>

ActionBar Action Items not showing

This is because if you use the support AppCompat ActionBar library and ActionBarActivity you should create your menus in a different than the standard way of creating XML menus in ActioBarSherlock or the default ActionBar.

So try this code:

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" 
      xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto">
      <item android:id="@+id/action_search"
          android:icon="@drawable/ic_action_search"
          android:title="@string/action_search"
          app:showAsAction="always"  />
      <item android:id="@+id/action_compose"
          android:icon="@drawable/ic_action_compose"
          android:title="@string/action_compose" 
          app:showAsAction="always"/>
</menu>

and report if this works.

Note: check the extra prefix xmlns:app which should be used instead!

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