ActionMenuView doesn't sowing menu items as Icons. (Only showing as overflow menu)

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At January 14, 2019, 6:30pm, _shahdhaval asked:

I am trying to implement menu items using ActionMenuView. I have tried following every resource out there but couldn’t able to find the solution to my problem.

After inflating the menu items in ActionMenuView, I got the three dots (overflow) menu containing my menu items. But it doesn’t show the icons even though I have used app:showAsAction="always"

Following is the code I have tried till now.

[A] menu_main.xml

<?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/menuItemSetting"
            android:title="Settings"
            android:orderInCategory="100"
            app:showAsAction="always"
            android:icon="@drawable/ic_settings_white"/>

</menu>

[B] layout_toolbar_main.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout
        xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
        android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
        android:layout_width="match_parent">

    <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
            android:id="@+id/toolbarMain"
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            app:titleTextColor="@android:color/white"
            android:background="@color/colorPrimary"
            android:layout_height="0dp"
            app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
            app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
            app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
            app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
            />

    <android.support.v7.widget.ActionMenuView
            android:id="@+id/actionMenuViewMain"
            android:layout_width="0dp"
            app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
            app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
            app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
            app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
            android:layout_height="0dp"/>

</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>

[C] Following code is used to inflate the menu:

private var actionMenuViewMain: ActionMenuView = findViewById(R.id.actionMenuViewMain)

val menu = actionMenuViewMain.menu
val menuInflater = MenuInflater(getContext())
menuInflater.inflate(R.menu.menu_main, menu)

Following is the output I got after using the above code:

Please let me know what I am doing wrong. Thank you.

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At January 14, 2019, 7:03pm, mmurphy replied:

I have never used ActionMenuView directly.

My best guess is that you should call getMenuInflater() on your AppCompatActivity, rather than using MenuInflater(getContext()), to get your MenuInflater. The one you are creating might not know about AppCompat.

Beyond that, here are some things to try:

• Remove android:orderInCategory="100" (you only have one item at the moment, so this is not doing anything for you)
• Remove the Toolbar (not sure why you are using both that and ActionMenuView)
• Add android:showAsAction="always" (this really should not be necessary, but…)