Adding a button to the ActionBar with ActionBarSherlock

actionbarsherlock, android, android-actionbar

Solution

You are using Android's Menu and MenuInflater, but should be using the classes that come with ActionBarSherlock:

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
   com.actionbarsherlock.view.MenuInflater inflater = getSupportMenuInflater();
   inflater.inflate(R.menu.menu, (com.actionbarsherlock.view.Menu) menu);
   return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
}

It seems like you are intermingling the two right now. Make sure that you import only com.actionbarsherlock.view.Menu and com.actionbarsherlock.view.MenuInflater, and not its Android counterparts. I recommend you to do something like the following:

import com.actionbarsherlock.view.Menu;
import com.actionbarsherlock.view.MenuInflater;

...

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
       MenuInflater inflater = getSupportMenuInflater();
       inflater.inflate(R.menu.menu, menu);
       return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
    }

Problem

I have been trying to add a button to the SherlockActionBar but I can't get it working. This is the code that I have: ``` @Override public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) { android.view.MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater(); inflater.inflate(R.menu.menu, (android.view.Menu) menu); return super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu); } ``` This is my `menu.xml` code: ``` <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"> <item android:id="@+id/save_button" android:title="i" android:showAsAction="always" /> </menu> ``` This doesn't work, as even if I press the menu button, nothing shows up. Is there any other way? Am I making any mistake?

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