Overflow Actions on ActionBar not showing

actionbarsherlock, android, android-actionbar

Solution

If you have a physical menu key, the overflow indicator does not show. That is a behaviour by design. See here for more details on another question asked.

Problem

I have an ActionBar using ActionBar Sherlock where I need it to display overflow because I have more actions than room. But, it doesn't show the overflow icon. Here is my configuration: ``` <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"> <item android:id="@+id/menu_search" android:icon="@drawable/action_search" android:title="@string/menu_search" android:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText"/> <item android:id="@+id/menu_library" android:icon="@drawable/hardware_headphones" android:title="@string/my_music" android:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText"/> <item android:id="@+id/menu_downloads" android:icon="@drawable/av_download" android:title="@string/downloads" android:showAsAction="ifRoom|withText"/> </menu> ``` And here is code to set it up: ``` @Override public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) { MenuInflater menuInflater = getSupportMenuInflater(); menuInflater.inflate(R.menu.shopping_menu, menu); MenuItem searchMenuItem = menu.findItem(R.id.menu_search); searchMenuItem.setOnMenuItemClickListener(new MenuItem.OnMenuItemClickListener() { @Override public boolean onMenuItemClick(MenuItem item) { startActivity(new Intent(ShopActivity.this, SearchDialog.class)); return false; } }); MenuItem downloadMenuItem = menu.findItem(R.id.menu_downloads); downloadMenuItem.setOnMenuItemClickListener(new MenuItem.OnMenuItemClickListener() { @Override public boolean onMenuItemClick(MenuItem item) { startActivity( new Intent(ShopActivity.this, DownloadQueueActivity.class) ); return false; } }); MenuItem myMusicItem = menu.findItem(R.id.menu_library); myMusicItem.setOnMenuItemClickListener( new MenuItem.OnMenuItemClickListener() { @Override public boolean onMenuItemClick(MenuItem item) { startActivity(new Intent(ShopActivity.this, MyMusicActivity.class)); return false; } }); return true; } ``` I've looked over the demos in ActionBar Sherlock, but I can't tell what they do differently to get the overflow than what I'm doing. So what's happening here why its not showing?

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